How to Use On-Screen Keyboards

Mir-based compositors support on-screen keyboards.

You can use any Wayland compatible on-screen keyboard but as an example, we’ll use ubuntu-frame-osk.

1. Install ubuntu-frame-osk:

   sudo snap install ubuntu-frame-osk
   sudo snap connect ubuntu-frame-osk:wayland
   

2. Start miral-app:

   miral-app --add-wayland-extensions all
   

   Note: Due to security reasons, some Wayland extensions needed by on-screen keyboards are disabled by default. In this how-to, we override this setting by passing --add-wayland-extensions all when launching miral-app. passing a --add-wayland-extensions all flag when launching an example application.

3. Once the shell loads, start the terminal (with Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T) and start your on-screen keyboard:

   ubuntu-frame-osk&
   

An on-screen keyboard will pop up.