i have a convertible laptop with pen input.
Gnome supports the pen and its buttons well, i have automatic screen orientation activated and when i convert the laptop it disables the keyboard and everything works nicely, except…
i can’t figure out how to activate the onscreen keyboard. When logging in via GDM, i get an onscreen keyboard, but in my gnome session i don’t get one. I would expect it to either automatically pop up once i tap into a text field or at least have some kind of menu button or gesture to activate it manually.
services.xserver.wacom.enable is enabled already. Any more things to do, or is this currently unsupported?
TL;DR Works in tablet mode, but you need to pull up the keyboard from the lower edge.
I run NixOS unstable (25.05) with pretty-much GNOME default setup on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible with an integrated pen and use the Rnote drawing and note-taking app.
In tablet mode, when I try to add some text using the text widget, no on-screen keyboard is automatically shown. It seems like a bug, but there appears to be no report about that on the application’s issue tracker. So, maybe this is as designed, in GNOME.
Long story short, when you swipe your finger from the lower edge of the screen a long way up then the keyboard appears. It must be a rather long swipe though (slow or fast, doesn’t seem to matter).
In a text box (e.g. in the Open File dialog), you can simply tap a second time to make the keyboard appear.
