Keyboard in UT disappears after wayroid is started

hankschwie

Hi!
After starting Waydroid, the keybord in UT is not usable anymore. It does not pop up as it is supposed to do when it is needed. Even in the terminal app it cannot be started. This does not change after stopping waydroid, either.
(I'm using a fairphone 3, 24.04-1.x, daily).

Inside the Waydroid container the android keyboard works as expected.

Only solution so far is to restart the whole phone.

Is there a way to start the from the terminal, so I could put the command in the bash history to be able to start it manually as a work-around?

A bit at a loss ..
hank

hankschwie

Hi!

Looks like I 've found a work-around myself:

pkill maliit-keyboard && maliit-keyboard

seems oo work. It kills the keyboard-server and restarts it, works from the terminal app, and keyboard is started in other apps as well
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But why does the keyboard vanish at all? A bug in the waydroid start routine?

EDIT Oops, no, it's not consistent...

gpatel-fr

@hankschwie said:

fairphone 3, 24.04-1.x, daily

here FP5 24-04-1.2 stable, I don't see this problem. So 'logically' it could be a problem either in the version or the port.

kugiigi

You can also restart the keyboard with systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service

I've never encountered this issue with Waydroid before. Just a wild guess, can you please check in Settings >> Language & Text and see if there's perhaps an external keyboard detected. I guess you can also see this if the keyboard icon appears in the top bar. I'm thinking maybe Waydroid introduces an external keyboard, for some reason, and onscreen keyboard is disabled when this is the case

hankschwie

@kugiigi Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I found a rather crude way to restart the keyboard, using the Fcitx5 app I installed in an attempt to find an alternative keyboard. Fcitx5 isn't really reliable yet, but with it I was able to restore the default keyboard (restore button in the settings of the app), and that works fine.

As to your guess: No, no external keyboard is detected, an no keyboard icon appears in the top bar. Only difference I notice is that the time display disappears in the top bar or shows a wrong time in UT, while in waydroid it is correct, but that's a different story...