On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:36:12 +0200 Thierry de Coulon tcoulon@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