sddm (was: trixie upgrade issues)

Rainer Dorsch <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:19:52 +0200

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Am Samstag, 19. April 2025, 23:36:18 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Soren Stoutner:
> 1) sddm shows an on-screen keyboard on a regular desktop. I can
> 
> > switch to the normal keyboard, but that looks wrong
> 
> This has been much discussed on the mailing list.  The situation has
> improved a bit, but it still happens to me from time to time,
> particularly after the screen has been locked (but not consistently).
> You can resolve the problem by removing a certain package (I don’t
> remember which), but it really would be nice if this could be fixed
> before trixie.

Thanks for the pointer. I found a good answer in

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1091343#22

The default Plasma install uses sddm-theme-debian-breeze which correctly 
detects this condition and won’t show the virtual keyboard without a reason.

I’ll probably move the dependency on qt6-virtualkeyboard-plugin from sddm 
itself to the greeter themes that correctly supports touch detection since 
enough people are seeing this, but it would be better if all greeter themes or 
SDDM itself fix the issue.

For people being bothered by the issue and not needing the virtual keyboard 
you can already uninstall the qt6-virtualkeyboard-plugin and be done.


I would also add this one to https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206 if nobody 
objects.

Thanks
Rainer

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Rainer Dorsch
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