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Virtual Keyboard Support For KWin / KDE Wayland 5.7

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 25 May 2016 at 09:18 AM EDT. 3 Comments

The latest KWin/Wayland hacking project by Martin Gräßlin is adding virtual keyboard support to KWin for the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.7 release.

This virtual keyboard support is powered by the QtVirtualKeyboard module and provides a high-quality, QML-based keyboard that will work on KWin/Wayland when no hardware keyboard is available. Implementing this virtual keyboard support with Wayland compatibility was actually quite a feat, but has now become a reality thanks to the work by Martin.

More details via Martin's blog.

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