Trixie - bring up the On Screen Keyboard manually.
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OK, so I have been trialling trixie on my PinePhone running from an SD card for a couple of weeks now. As before, some applications, usually Chromium/Electron based do not automatically trigger the appearance of the on screen keyboard when you click in a text field. 

This has been the case in all versions of mobian I have used.

In the bookworm based version you can hit the miniscule keyboard icon at the bottom right of the screen to bring up the keyboard. Hit and miss on the PP, works much better on my PPP.

In trixie that icon is not present and I cannot for the life of me work out how to get the on screen keyboard (squeekboard in my case) to appear manually.

What is the magic incantation that the Phosh developers landed upon to allow users to get the OSK to appear manually?

I am vegetarian so if it involves boiling body parts of various creatures in a cauldron of ox blood over a fire made of elm and oak branches at full moon then I will have to get an Android phone instead.

Thanks, as ever in advance for any useful information.

(5 hours ago)grump_fiddle_reinstall Wrote: OK, so I have been trialling trixie on my PinePhone running from an SD card for a couple of weeks now. As before, some applications, usually Chromium/Electron based do not automatically trigger the appearance of the on screen keyboard when you click in a text field. 

This has been the case in all versions of mobian I have used.

In the bookworm based version you can hit the miniscule keyboard icon at the bottom right of the screen to bring up the keyboard. Hit and miss on the PP, works much better on my PPP.

In trixie that icon is not present and I cannot for the life of me work out how to get the on screen keyboard (squeekboard in my case) to appear manually.

What is the magic incantation that the Phosh developers landed upon to allow users to get the OSK to appear manually?

I am vegetarian so if it involves boiling body parts of various creatures in a cauldron of ox blood over a fire made of elm and oak branches at full moon then I will have to get an Android phone instead.

Thanks, as ever in advance for any useful information.
OK it is now a highly intuitive "long press" on the wafer thin line at the bottom of the screen.

The clue is in the app "Mobile Settings" under "Unfold long-press". Which is a pretty inaccurate way to describe it.

The keyboard does NOT unfold, it slides up. So why on earth is the option called "UNFOLD long-press"? 

Grump over, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. 

Oh, and season's greetings to all forum members.
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