Virtual Keyboard only English

Bazzite
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Hi all,

so please bare with me, as this is my first Fedora-based distro, my first atomic one and also the first time I’m using KDE. So this maybe something simple, or even an KDE bug.

Device: Lenovo Yoga X390 (Convertible)
OS: Bazzite 40
DE: KDE
Image: Other Laptop / Desktop
Language: German

Symptoms: If I want to change the virtual keyboard (Maliite) layout, I only see English as language and checked. If I want to open the Maliite settings I get an KIO Client error: settings://system/language can’t be read
In the spell-checker settings in the KDE preferences, I can only select variants of English
If I add another language in the Region an Language module, I get an error: “The on the system available localizations can’t be found with the localectl tool. Please provide a KDE bug report”
If I run localectl in the terminal I see the locale correctly set as LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
My physical keyboard works correctly, with all German characters working…

I looked around and saw a slightly related bug report for OpenSuse, where some language packages from KDE were missing. With my zero knowledge of Silverblue I assume that they are also missing on Bazzite - But that can be just my inexperience.

The sytem seems stable and workable and it is just a minor inconvenience, as I can long press the keys on Maliite to get to the German characters - Nevertheless I wanted to raise this here, as I have no idea if this is a KDE6 bug, an issue with Maliite, or an issue with Bazzite.

For now it would be great if one could help me identify the issue and potentially missing packages. that I than could layer over the Bazzite install - This is by far the best distro I have tested, supporting all convertible functionality.

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How did you even install Maliit on it? I’m having real problems with it.

Can you explain it?

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I didn’t install it - That was done by Bazzite for me. I used the KDE-Spin for General PC / Laptop with a Wayland session on the Convertible. As I have learned there is only one virtual keyboard currently working under KDE Wayland: Maliite.

Therefor it was there from the beginning - The Bazzite ISO recognized the Convertible and had every driver and necessary package auto-installed for me. And a working virtual keyboard is necessary to use the device in tablet mode.

Every other Linux I tried on the Convertible wasn’t supporting some feature / didn’t recognize all hardware (even if it is “Ubuntu-Certified”, whatever that means).
I knew Bazzite from my Steam-Deck and normally wouldn’t have considered it as daily-driver on a laptop - That was just kind of a last resort (though I knew from Steam-Deck desktop mode, that it is more than workable in 99.99% of my use-cases - and for the 0.01% I begrudgingly dual-boot Windows 11).