3 Apr
2015
3 Apr
'15
11:46 a.m.
On Friday 03 April 2015 13.11:12 E. Liddell wrote:
Actual deps for Onboard 1.1.1, according to the first
ebuild I checked:
at-spi2-core, iso-codes, glib, libappindicator, dbus-python, pycairo, dconf
(gnome), mousetweaks (gnome), libcanberra, cairo, gdk-pixbuf, gtk+-3,
pango, X. In other words, lightdm is not a requirement per se (although
that doesn't mean it'll work with tdm).
I'll take a look. I haven't yet understood "how" the sstem decides to
pop up
the keyboard. It does it with Unity/lightdm. It does not with tdm. What I
also seem to see is that if I install Trinit 13 I can both run TDE with
lightdm (but onboard does not pop up) and Unity with kdm. But after upgrading
to R14 Unity no more works (even if I go bakc to lightdm)...
It looks like another option would be xvkbd (
http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/ ), which only requires basic X
libraries. A project called xkbd appears to be similar, but has no
surviving homepage (your distro might still package it). Matchbox-keyboard
has been subsumed by another project, but again, your distro might still
have a package.
xvkdb runs. I'd have to find a way to launch it without a keyboard - and
without reading the manpage I can't fugure out how to make it bigger, the
default siuze is a bit tiny. It does offer a nice range of layouts, however.
Those are all the possibilities I could find in a
hurry.
E. Liddell
Thank you for your hints, I'll take a look and report about the result.
Thierry