Plasma Lock screen not responding.

BuzzPCSOS

banger Depending on how long the mouse works for....
Run the following commands to install Maliit virtual keyboard and enable the built-in QT Virtual Keyboard to be available at log-on.
sudo eopkg install maliit-keyboard echo "[General]" | sudo tee -a /etc/sddm.conf echo "InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard" | sudo tee -a /etc/sddm.conf
Enable Maliit keyboard to log back into a Wayland session by selecting it as default virtual keyboard in Settings.
QT Virtual Keyboard needs to be used for initial logon.
Click the "Virtual Keyboard" button at bottom left of the logon screen to bring the keyboard up.
Good luck.

banger

Works on log on screen but the Virtual Keyboard on lock screen does nothing. Have set it to Maliit on the Settings app/virtual keyboard. Another bug?

BuzzPCSOS

banger Are you on Wayland or X11 ?
Both Maliit and QT Virtual Keyboard work fine for me on my Solus tablet.
For lock screen, sometimes you need to click into the text box before typing and then use the arrow to the right of the text box instead of just using the Enter button.
Unfortunately virtual keyboard behaviour is a little rudimentary but this setup works for me every day although lock screen does seem to be more difficult to navigate than it used to.
Maybe something that will get fixed with future updates.
Edit: Work round to open a lock screen that will not work can be to log out of current user and then log back on again as the same user.

banger

Well I spent 30 mins testing the ordinary text box and keyboard with 1 minute timeout and changing wallpaper to slideshow and so far so good. Still couldn't get virtual keyboard working on lock screen works fine on login screen when you click switch user.

BuzzPCSOS

banger
Edit 42:
Wrote a lot of waffle earlier but below is the only bit that was relevant. I think you are stuck with what you have until there is better support for virtual keyboards on Linux.
Log-on screen uses QT Virtual Keyboard whereas Lock-screen uses Maliit.
I think your system is seeing a keyboard and inhibiting Maliit on the Lock-screen. This happens on my laptop with a keyboard but not on my tablet.

BuzzPCSOS

There seems to be a lot of people on forums complaining about the lack of a KDE Wayland Plasma 6 virtual keyboard.
At the moment this is a KDE thing so an upstream issue maybe. Keeping hopeful for the future.

AlphaElwedritsch

You could definitely switch to Gnome in the meantime until KDE fixes everything 😉

banger

AlphaElwedritsch I've spent the last year trying to get away from Gnome (Zorin) as it is too restrictive and getting worse. Plasma is a tweakers DE.

banger

Uh oh my other Plasma machine lock screen locked up so its likely a plasma problem and it has a PS2 keyboard. Tried unplugging the PS2 keyboard but no response on the lock screen mouse is still working but flaky with the password box coming and going with mouse movement.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500339

banger

This just happened to me again on Plasma 6.4.5 keyboard stopped responding after auto lock, mouse brought up password box but couldn't enter password and clicking mouse did nothing. Tried unplugging keyboard and mouse but no different even plugged a second keyboard in to a different USB port and still no response. Multimedia controls on keyboard were working on playing media.

I notice when this happens the text about scanning fingerprint does not display so maybe connected to that. As it so near sync will see if Plasma 6.5.2 is any better.

TraceyC

banger This just happened to me again on Plasma 6.4.5

If you look at the bug you opened in the KDE bug tracker (thanks!), you'll note that the "Version fixed in" is 6.5.0. When your system updates to 6.5.x after the next sync, this bug should go away on your system. If it appears in 6.5.x, please comment in that bug. This isn't something Solus can fix.