What Desktop Environment are you using with your FW12?

[junaruga]

@Rightaway I am using the Sway window manager on the Framework Laptop 12. My config files for Sway are here.

Sway on the Framework Laptop 12

I created my customized layout sets of the wvkbd. One of the layout sets is a 44-key ortholiner split keyboard layout. The photo is below. [framework_laptop_12_wvkbd_contrib_split] My repository with the layout sets is below. You can customize the layout by the following steps: Fork my repository junaruga/wvkbd-contrib. Create the layout/your_layout_name directory, and create some header files. The https://github.com/jjsullivan5196/wvkbd’s *.deskintl.h, and https://github.com/junaruga/wv…

@jarmuszz

I’m kind of surprised nobody brought this before, but I think GNOME and KDE are currently the only options if you want to have a lockscreen with a virtual keyboard on Wayland, at least from what I can tell. Touch input on a tablet is clunky but it’s less frustrating than flipping the keyboard all over just to input a password.

This is a good point.

As far as I know, Sway and Niri use the Swaylock as a lock screen application by default. But I haven’t found the way to use the virtual keyboard wvkbd on the swaylock’s lockscreen. So, I opened the issue ticket for the Swaylock project below.

An option to display an applicaton (virtual keyboard) on the lock screen

I investigated below. According to the Reddit threads, the gtklock can work to display a virtual keyboard. And the swaylock-mobile may also work for that.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1czcca5/is_it_possible_to_display_over_swaylock/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n5czoi/is_it_possible_to_use_a_virtual_keyboard_while/
• GitHub - jovanlanik/gtklock: GTK-based lockscreen for Wayland
• slatian/swaylock-mobile: Fork of swaylock for use on Linux Phones - Codeberg.org