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COSMIC Desktop 1.9 Adds COSMIC Viewer, On-Screen Keyboard (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 month ago

OSK's are so important for convertibles, tablets and phones, and in a pretty rough state on KDE and GNOME too.

Gnome has a nice one but very underpowered. And a GNOME extension that made it better is now broken, now sure if there is a new one.

KDE has maliit which is Qt5 and abandoned, and replaced it with plasma keyboard (which is also the name of the IME doing the fancy long-press-special-character-suggestions thing) but that was not well sized last time I tried it

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    [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Id love to hear from people if this version fixes the keyboard focus. As that has always been my issue unfortunately

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    just tried it on NixOS (latest version 1.9) nope, keyboard focus wasn't working for me. uninstalled.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I mean, it works most of the time, but just seems with stacking for me it sometimes fails, and might be related to Virt-manager

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    yeah I tried it with a VM and a few games. it was worse for the games. had to toggle between workspaces a couple times for the game to pick up the keyboard again.

    I think this is more a wayland issue than a cosmic one. I sometimes get this issue on Niri or Hyprland, rarely on Sway (but it does happen) and also even more rarely on KDE but again, it has happened.

    Anything X11? never.

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