Any way to request Squeekboard NumPad?

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I am using this command to show the Squeekboard:

gdbus call --session --dest sm.puri.OSK0 --object-path /sm/puri/OSK0 --method sm.puri.OSK0.SetVisible true

Is there any way to change this command or use a different one to specifically request that Squeekboard show a numpad?

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I’d think of if differently. Why not create a numpad for your own sqeekboard layout? You can create a layout specific for yourself and have numpad as one of the views available (one extra view). In anycase you’d need to create a squeekboard numpad layout (like us_unmpad.yaml) to have something to bring up, if you want it separate. See:

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I have seen on rare occasion where I was filling out an online form which the field specifically only required numbers and squeekboard gave a pure number pad layout. It would be reasonable to think that it can be manually shown through some kind of command.

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I got curious and, ho, there truly is one already - it just isn’t named numpad. It can be found from the squeekboard repo: squeekboard/data/keyboards/number/us.yaml

But now the question comes back to, how the original command needs to be changed to find that alternative keyboard layout…

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Whether the numeric (or any other layout like email) will be used is determined by the input hints the client sends via the text-input Wayland protocol.

To make the same possible via DBus too you’d need to extend squeekboard’s DBus. I’d rather fix the client though.

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