Re: [gentoo-user] soft keyboard for touchscreen

[William Kenworthy]

Thanks Mickaël,

    I have onboard installed from an overlay (I have tried a couple of
different ones, they seem to be variants of the same original package)

How are you starting onboard? - the packages do not come with an
initscript or hooks into X that I can see (though they seem to depend on
systemd - I use openrc)

BillK


On 19/10/20 12:46 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote:
> Hi William
>
> Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au
> <mailto:billk@×××××××××.au>> a écrit :
>
>     Can someone recommend a guide to installing a touch screen aware soft
>     keyboard in gentoo?
>
>     I have tried a number of keyboards but the various guides do not
>     say how
>     to integrate a soft keyboard in to a window manager (I am using xfwm4
>     but could change) or login screen.
>
>     I can manually start them, but they do not show up when an
>     editor,  text
>     box or login is required so I have to attach a physical keyboard to
>     regain control.
>
>
>     BillK
>      
>
>  
> If you're using SDDM, you can activate the virtual keyboard with the
> following line in the config file /etc/sddm.conf
>
> [General]
> # Input method module
> InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard
>
> For the session itself, under KDE on Ubuntu I use Onboard [1], which
> is not available in Portage
> I found a blog page [2] explaining how to install Onboard on Gentoo,
> with an ebuild, but it's for Python 3.4 to 3.6
> I've adapted the ebuild to Python 3.7 in my overlay [3] and it worked
> as expected, either from another PC through VNC or from a touch screen.
> Onboard seems to originate from Gnome, and as I use it under KDE, it
> should be independent from the window manager.
>
> Best regards
> Mickaël Bucas
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/onboard
> [2]
> https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/installing-the-onboard-on-screen-keyboard-in-gentoo-linux/
> [3] https://github.com/mbucas/gentoo-overlay