Bug#1095604: sddm: no way to disable the virtual keyboard

[Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@coucouf.fr>]

Dear Ted,

Le dimanche 9 février 2025, 18:32:55 UTC+1 Theodore Y. Ts'o a écrit :
> Package: sddm
> Version: 0.21.0+git20241213.4a9aa2e-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Since upgrading to the latest version of sddm and kde on Debian testing,
> on reboot, the sddm is showing a very large, anoying virtual keyboard.

yes there are currently issues surrounding the behaviour of the virtual keyboard.

Still if you’re using sddm-theme-breeze or our Debian-themed sddm-theme-debian-breeze the greeter is supposed to detect if you are on a tablet / laptop in tablet mode and only show the virtual keyboard then. Is it not the case for you ?

Or are you using some other SDDM greeter theme instead ? If that’s the case and you’re not on a touch device you may want to consider removing qt6-virtualkeyboard-plugin. Ideally upstream would fix their greeters to do the same as what breeze does.


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien