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Tanuki41

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2024-11-13

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Maliit-keyboard not showing up

I have a HP X360 Envy (fa0013dx) 2-in-1, I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma for a while now, and I've been trying to make the Tablet mode work properly. I've managed to do the rotation and other stuff work, but not the on-screen keyboard. I have installed Maliit-keyboard but I couldn't get it to work. I'm using Wayland, already selected it on the KDE virtual keyboard menu but nothing happens. When I try to run it from the terminal by typing "maliit-keyboard" this is the output:

~]$ maliit-keyboard

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""

wordengine.cpp plugin "/usr/lib/maliit/keyboard2/languages/en/libenplugin.so" loaded

inputmethod_p.h registerActiveLanguage(): activeLanguage is: "en"

in inputMethod.cpp setActiveLanguage() activeLanguage is: "en"

DB path: /usr/lib/maliit/keyboard2/languages/en/database_en.db

spellechecker.cpp in setLanguage() lang= "en" dictPath= "/usr/share/myspell/dicts"

Did not find a dictionary for "en"  - checking for  "en"

No dictionary found for "en" turning off spellchecking

no dictionary to turn on spellchecking

inputMethod::reset()

in clear preedit.. clearing word engine

keyboard is reporting <x y w h>: < 0 112 160 48 > to the app manager.

QSoundEffect(pulseaudio): Error decoding source file:///usr/share/maliit/keyboard2/sounds/key_tick2_quiet.wav

keyboard is reporting <x y w h>: < 0 1152 160 48 > to the app manager.

keyboard is reporting <x y w h>: < 0 732 160 468 > to the app manager.

keyboard is reporting <x y w h>: < 0 732 1920 468 > to the app manager.

Can someone please help?

PS: It runs as a process, I can only stop it by Ctrl + C.

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tanuki@laptop-arch-tanuki
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: HP Envy x360 2-in-1 Laptop 14-fa0xxx
Kernel: 6.11.7-arch1-1
Uptime: 20 mins
Packages: 1145 (pacman), 47 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: Plasma 6.2.3
WM: kwin
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
cons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: kitty
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics (12) @ 4.971GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 03:00.0 Phoenix3
Memory: 4534MiB / 15279MiB

Last edited by Tanuki41 (2024-11-15 14:18:41)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 58,698

Re: [SOLVED] Maliit-keyboard not showing up

Please use [code][/code] tags. Edit your post in this regard.

I'm using Wayland

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""

Does it work on X11?
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WA4NDR

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Registered: 2024-11-14

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Maliit-keyboard not showing up

Seth was barking up the right tree there.

I just did a fresh install of Arch linux with KDE Plasma and Wayland yesterday.
I also could not get Maliit to launch and had the same error.

I went to their website and it seems they are mostly built against qt5 rather than qt6 and I noted that the package "qt5-wayland" was not installed on my system.

Installing that, verifying I was running Wayland, and that I had selected Maliit in the settings as a virtual keyboard did the trick for me.

Check to see if you are missing qt5-wayland.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 58,698

Re: [SOLVED] Maliit-keyboard not showing up

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/2

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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Tanuki41

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2024-11-13

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Maliit-keyboard not showing up

It worked! Thanks y'all, just downloaded qt5-wayland and after a reboot everything works fine.