Maliit keyboard gone
I did a fresh install on my rog ally, and the maliit virtual keyboard is gone, it doesn't pop-up automatically, its not present in the virtual keyboard settings, and when I try to manually install, the console tells me its already installed
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What version of Bazzite are you on? I'm on "bazzite-nvidia:testing-41.20241231" (you can run
rpm-ostree status in the terminal to check) And the virtual keyboard is there for me. I have an Rog ally where I can switch to your version and see if I can reproduce
it got disabled yesterday i think
GitHub
Revert "chore: Restore maliit keyboard" · ublue-os/bazzite@f3afe71
This reverts commit 2112e5d3ca972203a49ce138ab347121fb41b24e.
Maliit removed again? Rip, time to manually workaround again
Edit:
this works
for to manually re-add the desktop entry
then remember to set maliit as the virtual keyboard
Looks like it was removed. See if Aru's fix above works for you
latest one as of this morning
I will try it right now
didnt work
Do you see any output?
only other thing i could think of is the immodule bug, but that should've been fixed a while back.
here's the old workaround, in case you want to try it:
It started enabling itself by default in KDE
If we can find a better way to fix it I'll switch it back, but this is better than everybody having two keyboards
I assumed there was a good reason for removing it, it's just inconvenient for users that prefer it
no maliit means no OSK for the KDE lockscreen though, which is unfortunate
side note, I can confirm that this script seems to restore maliit, a user on image 20250101 just tested it
bazzite version the user tried it on
Don’t know if it’s relevant, but I’m on an ROG Ally X, and there’s no more on screen keyboard in desktop mode.
Did you already try this?
No… do I just type that into a terminal? Will that work on my Asus?
Yeah, while the script is hosted on legion-go-tricks, it's a generic script
I’ll go try it and report back.
steam keyboard
you were never meant to use malit
So don’t try it?
hit armory crate + x
or bind a button (like just x) to open keyboard in steam
steam keyboard will open and function, matching how SteamOS works on the deck
Tbh I personally prefer maliit over the deck keyboard for desktop mode.
But that's a fair point, the default recommendation should be the steam keyboard first
Steam keyboard is kinda useless for the KDE lock screen though
Steam keyboard pops up with the left paddle shifter, but I remember being a built in KDE keyboard that would popup when I tap the screen in a text field.
It was more user friendly.
KDE keyboard is maliit
Tried that script, and it works the way I remember. Thanks!
issue with the steam keyboard, it doesn't move/resize windows to keep the input in view while maliit does
it doesn't work properly on the rog ally
you can enable the Qt one