On Screen KB possible for full disk encryption?

I don’t know about others, but one thing that’s annoyed me about the full disk encryption screen is the little icon for the on-screen keyboard but it does nothing. I always require pulling out a usb keyboard and plugging it into my device (Legion Go) to type it in. This isn’t a huge deal at home, more annoying - but is more frustrating when I’m traveling and require carrying a keyboard in my backpack with me just to play it if I decide to shut it down for security reasons.

Can the onboard KB be enabled at that screen or is this beyond control of Bazzite?

I’m like 95% sure there’s no way to do this and it would be something in GRUB outside of Bazzite’s control.

A “work around” that would involve quite a bit of tinkering outside of Bazzite’s defaults (but might be worth looking into) would be modifying the encryption to use a keyfile or security key. This would let you carry around a USB or SD card to unlock the device rather than needing a keyboard.

PostmarketOS uses unl0kr. It is an onscreen keyboard for unlocking at boot. Not sure if this in Fedora or even a copr though.

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It could be a good addition to the Fedora Mobile SIG if its not in there already

Here is a copr with unl0kr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/erdii/bazzite-playground/