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Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 19:17, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> a |
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> Thanks Mickaël, |
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> I have onboard installed from an overlay (I have tried a couple of |
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> different ones, they seem to be variants of the same original package) |
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> How are you starting onboard? - the packages do not come with an |
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> initscript or hooks into X that I can see (though they seem to depend on |
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> systemd - I use openrc) |
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> BillK |
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I start it manually, I've never thought about automating it :) |
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On some systems I'm sometimes physically connected with a real keyboard and |
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I don't need it in this situation. |
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Best regards |
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Mickaël Bucas |
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> On 19/10/20 12:46 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote: |
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> Hi William |
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> Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> a |
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>> Can someone recommend a guide to installing a touch screen aware soft |
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>> keyboard in gentoo? |
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>> I have tried a number of keyboards but the various guides do not say how |
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>> to integrate a soft keyboard in to a window manager (I am using xfwm4 |
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>> but could change) or login screen. |
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>> I can manually start them, but they do not show up when an editor, text |
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>> box or login is required so I have to attach a physical keyboard to |
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>> regain control. |
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>> BillK |
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> If you're using SDDM, you can activate the virtual keyboard with the |
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> following line in the config file /etc/sddm.conf |
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> [General] |
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> # Input method module |
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> InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard |
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> For the session itself, under KDE on Ubuntu I use Onboard [1], which is |
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> not available in Portage |
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> I found a blog page [2] explaining how to install Onboard on Gentoo, with |
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> an ebuild, but it's for Python 3.4 to 3.6 |
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> I've adapted the ebuild to Python 3.7 in my overlay [3] and it worked as |
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> expected, either from another PC through VNC or from a touch screen. |
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> Onboard seems to originate from Gnome, and as I use it under KDE, it |
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> should be independent from the window manager. |
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> Best regards |
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> Mickaël Bucas |
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> [1] https://launchpad.net/onboard |
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> [2] |
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> https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/installing-the-onboard-on-screen-keyboard-in-gentoo-linux/ |
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> [3] https://github.com/mbucas/gentoo-overlay |
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