Re: [yocto] Virtual Keyboard on Wayland

[Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>]

On 6/23/25 14:22, matteo.orlandini via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm searching for a virtual keyboard to use with Yocto Scarthgap and
> my Python 3.12 application that uses GTK 3. I'm using weston version
> 12.0.4 and I saw that weston keyboard is not compatible with GTK 3. I
> tried to compile squeekboard but I got this error:
>
>     Nothing PROVIDES 'gnome-desktop' (but
>     /home/bitbake/muratore/nxp-scarthgap/sources/meta-wayland/recipes-support/squeekboard/squeekboard_git.bb
>     DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>     gnome-desktop was skipped: missing required distro feature 'x11'
>     (not in DISTRO_FEATURES)
>

It seems that gnome-desktop's  x11 dependency was a relic of the past,
and has been removed[1] some time ago. Maybe you could try to backport
it in your layer (as local.conf or bbappend) and see what happens? (Or
maybe even send a patch to the mailing list, if it works)

[1]:
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=8106d4192567233f0653242326ac3041a1233b69

>
>      
>
> Can someone help? Thank you in advance.
> Matteo
>
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