Can't get Onboard to work on Fedora 40

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I used to have Onboard as my onscreen keyboard on Mint then when I swapped to Fedora 40 KDE, I couldn’t find a working version for it or for any onscreen keyboard. It’s the only thing that remains to would make experience on Fedora flawless. Any help on how to install it would be much appreciated.

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The onboard package needs a maintainer.

commit a9ac746af5dff7761d183e5e0b12da1c04433a9a (HEAD -> rawhide, origin/rawhide, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Miro Hrončok <miro@hroncok.cz>
Date:   Tue Dec 12 18:09:15 2023 +0100

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I was talking about Installing Onboard program on Fedora. Not about using the KDE inbuilt keyboard. The solution in the video does not work because I don’t have a touch screen.

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I guess I should wait a little bit then. Hopefully it will be updated in the future.

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The package doesn’t need a maintainer, the thing is irreparably broken. I tried to fix it, but failed. The project is unmaintained since 2017. It does not compile with recent C compilers, and it does not work with recent Python versions, and it does not work at all on Wayland sessions. I recommend looking for a replacement that - unlike onboard - has been worked on during the last 7 years.

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Do you have any suggestions for alternatives to this software? Btw, Onboard still works on Wayland.

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Sorry, this is not my area of expertise, so I don’t know of any actively maintained alternatives.

Last I checked, onboard didn’t work on Wayland … but I only tested it on GNOME maybe it does work on KDE Plasma.

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I already tested it on Cinnamon and KDE Wayland it seems that it still works. This is how I got the screenshot above. Just in case: Reboot after install.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

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Added f40

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Maliit ships with KDE Plasma. It’s a good keyboard + is actively maintained - you can go to settings > virtual keyboard. Make sure maliit is selected. You can then activate / deactivate the keyboard via the taskbar. You might also want to check out the plasma-mobile package to see if you prefer the touchscreen first layout.

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You can install onboard and onboard-data for fedora 39 on fedora 40, it works !
rpm -i onboard*