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It pops up and down from the bottom of the screen when I don't want it to

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[–] hperrin 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have no recommendations for you, I just want to second your opinion that the Gnome on screen keyboard is annoying.

[–] just_another_person 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They need to talk Valve into open-sourcing their OSK. It's kind of amazing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only amazing thing about it is the dual trackpad typing. Apart from that it lacks keys like Alt, Ctrl, Esc and the F-keys. Sometimes the arrow keys, tab and insert send weird key codes.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could just turn it off

[–] hperrin 3 points 10 months ago

Then it’s unusable. At least when it’s on it’s annoying but usable (mostly).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I've had a good experience with Onboard.

[–] mmababes 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Trying it out right now

Update: I think that Onboard is good enough to replace Gnome's OSK.

[–] Molecular0079 6 points 10 months ago

Does it work in Wayland?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it work with Wayland?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Presumably via Xwayland, but I haven't tried it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I wouldn’t be so sure about xwayland, it would need the ability to insert keystrokes. I don’t know at what level it does that

[–] hperrin 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The last release came out 7 years ago…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] hperrin 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Those are just changes to the build system. The last upstream release was 7 years ago. Last commit to the main branch was 6 1/2 years ago. This project is unmaintained. It should be forked by someone who is passionate about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t call that unmaintained then?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone give a layman an explanation as to what makes software like this unmaintained? It seems like it should be fine if it works and is still getting updates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It will 90% have no wayland support. It may have bugs that are not resolved. It may rely on outdated software components and break if distros stop shipping it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

the package is maintained (will continue to install on modern ubuntu versions), but the software is unmaintained (no bug fixes, no new features, will stagnate and eventually become obselete as incompatible with future desktop standard modifications)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On steam deck I switched to plasma mobile primarily because of how bad the gnome onscreen keyboard is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh? The Steam Deck doesn't come with Gnome and also has its own OSK...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you install gnome and use it in desktop mode you'll see what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, obviously. But what do you mean you "switched to" plasma? It's the default

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

There is nothing else. OSK sucks on Linux. I wish I knew how to fucking code, I'd make my own.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] mmababes 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I've seen onboard, but I don't know if its any better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] mmababes 1 points 10 months ago

Looks good but I'm using X11

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] mmababes 4 points 10 months ago

I know, the keyboard in the uploaded image is Window's OSK. I want something similar to it.