What are the supported desktop environments?

[tom-james-watson]

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!

[atx]

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.

[edvard-munch]

I wish that the Readme had the info about wtype not working on Gnome

[mmoya]

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

Someone already requested support for it in mutter#1974. Upstream said it's unlikely this will be supported and recommended using libei instead.

[shula]

the same error on KDE, all systems updated today, 2024-11-18
wtype 0.4-2

so if it doesn't work on KDE, and not on GNOME, which are around 60% of the DE, what does it do work with?