Alternative OSD/OSK for Wayland?

Open andersmmg opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I know there's issues with creating an overlay on Wayland, but would it be possible to use an actual window? Like have an option when running Wayland to have a window pop up over whatever you're doing to change controller modes etc. Not sure if that would work for the keyboard... but it would be a start.

Oct 16 '22 21:10 andersmmg

Not really, there's no way to tell wayland compositor to create always on top window. From my understanding, most of features needed for OSD/OSK are intentionally not part of the protocol.

Oct 22 '22 09:10 kozec

@kozec this has changed with the addition of the following extensions:

layer-shell
virtual-keyboard-v1

Squeekboard has a working example but it does require a little compositor interaction at the moment.

Nov 14 '23 08:11 StaticRocket