It pops up and down from the bottom of the screen when I don’t want it to
I’ve had a good experience with Onboard.
Does it work with Wayland?
Presumably via Xwayland, but I haven’t tried it.
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
The last release came out 7 years ago…
No? last release was 1-1-2024…
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.
I wouldn’t call that unmaintained then?
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.
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 It may rely on outdated software components and break if distros stop shipping it.
YOU CAN EDIT TITLES???
Yup
COOL
There is nothing else. OSK sucks on Linux. I wish I knew how to fucking code, I’d make my own.
On steam deck I switched to plasma mobile primarily because of how bad the gnome onscreen keyboard is.
Huh? The Steam Deck doesn’t come with Gnome and also has its own OSK…
If you install gnome and use it in desktop mode you’ll see what I mean.
Yeah, obviously. But what do you mean you “switched to” plasma? It’s the default
“Plasma mobile”
Looks good but I’m using X11
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