Disable the virtual keyboard on logon screen

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How do I disable the virtual keyboard on the logon screen?

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.1.10-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 22 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® Arc
Graphics Processor 2: zink Vulkan 1.4
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In gnome it is a part of the Accessibility (typing) menu. Do you have a accessibility menu in KDE to, to have a look ?

Edit
You can give this a try:

KDE Plasma – SDDM – Disable on-screen keyboard at login

December 2, 2024 RogueAutomaton kde plasma, linux, sddm

To disable the on-screen keyboard displayed by the SDDM display manager in KDE Plasma on Debian/Kubuntu/etc after installing SDDM themes, paste the following config into a new file at /etc/sddm.conf.d/disable-vkeyboard.conf (or any filename, in the same directory):

[General]
# Disable virtual keyboard at login
InputMethod=

Note: Some answers found by a quick web search say to edit /etc/sddm.conf directly, rather than /etc/sddm.conf.d/*.conf – if you edit this file, it’s likely to be overwritten later on by the Plasma desktop settings application, whereas “*.conf.d” directories are a standard practice for user configs anyways. So just use the sddm.conf.d directory.

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Worth a try. The correct path would be /etc/sddm.conf.c/disable-vkeyboard.conf

EDIT: didn’t work. The onscreen keyboard appears anyway. It would already be helpfull if the keyboard sports all characters needed for a secure password. I have a ; in one and that is just four clicks away. I wonder who does useability checking @ kde development. it looks like this is left to the developers, unfortunately.

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Typo I presume; it’s /etc/sddm.conf.d/ for the directory