What are the supported desktop environments?
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When I try to run wtype on Pop!_OS 20.10 on Gnome I get:
Compositor does not support the virtual keyboard protocol
Is there a list of what desktop environments we should expect this to work on? What would be needed to get this working on gnome? Thanks!
The compositor needs to support the virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1 protocol. It looks like mutter (the Gnome compositor) does not implement this yet. I do not see an issue about this in their Gitlab repository, so it might be a good idea to ask there
Other than that, it should work on any wlroots-based compositor (provided the protocol support gets properly initialized). Not sure about KDE.
One way to check is by running wev -g and looking for something like:
[02: wl_registry] global: interface: 'zwp_virtual_keyboard_manager_v1', version: 1, name: 30
in its output.
I wish that the Readme had the info about wtype not working on Gnome
The compositor needs to support the
virtual-keyboard-unstable-v1protocol. It looks like mutter (the Gnome compositor) does not implement this yet. I do not see an issue about this in their Gitlab repository, so it might be a good idea to ask there
Someone already requested support for it in mutter#1974. Upstream said it's unlikely this will be supported and recommended using libei instead.