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Flutter tools for embedded Linux (eLinux)
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[Question] Should keyboard show up under X11 ? #133

Closed Tom3652 closed 1 year ago

Tom3652 commented 2 years ago

Hello !

Is the soft keyboard something that should be implemented by this plugin or i should install some packages myself ? When i touch a TextField in my flutter app on my debian 11 under Openbox - X11, no keyboard is showing up.

Note : I am asking here because i saw you made some changes to support it for Wayland in another issue. Thanks a lot in advance !

HidenoriMatsubayashi commented 2 years ago

Basically, X11 backend support is incomplete.

see also: https://github.com/sony/flutter-embedded-linux/issues

Tom3652 commented 2 years ago

Oh alright thanks, i will try to install GNOME to use Wayland.

Weston only works in a nested compositor as far as i understood so it's useless...

Tom3652 commented 2 years ago

Well my device has not enough disk space for GNOME unfortunately, it requires 2Gb and i have 1Gb...

Can you tell me please if it's useful that i make an issue in the official flutter repo about it ? As they should support it (not especially on embedded devices i mean, simply on linux under x11) ?

HidenoriMatsubayashi commented 2 years ago

Can you tell me please if it's useful that i make an issue in the official flutter repo about it ?

What do you mean?

Tom3652 commented 2 years ago

I have my answer, i have managed to run my app compiled with flutter and not flutter-elinux, the keyboard isn't showing either.

I have installed the onboard package to display a virtual keyboard (by forcing it) and it's writing in the TextField (but it's really ugly).

My next move will be to trigger a virtual keyboard onTap on the TextField then...

Tom3652 commented 1 year ago

I have ended up coding my own keyboard using GridViews