3 Apr
2015
3 Apr
'15
11:11 a.m.
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:36:12 +0200
Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon(a)decoulon.ch> wrote:
While researching for this project I re-read what KDE
4 devs had said about
having to give up KDE 3 because it was not "touchfriendly", so I tried TDE on
Ubuntu. Now, TDE is actually very usable on a touchscreen. There is ONE
problem - I can't find a way to activate an onscreen keyboard.
Ubuntu/Unity starts a tool called "onboard" that works almost as expected
(does not always seem to see if an external keyboard is present). It seems to
be linked to lightdm.
I can try to run Trinity with lightdm. Or has anyone a suggestion as to how to
get an onscreen keyboard with tdm?
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).
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.
Those are all the possibilities I could find in a hurry.
E. Liddell