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Hi William

Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.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

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@iinet.net.au
> <mailto:billk@iinet.net.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

Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 19:17, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> a
écrit :

> 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
>
I start it manually, I've never thought about automating it :)
On some systems I'm sometimes physically connected with a real keyboard and
I don't need it in this situation.

Best regards
Mickaël Bucas

> On 19/10/20 12:46 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>
> Hi William
>
> Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.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
>
>

Thanks,

    I needed to add to the start session for xfce4 - now its started
automaticly and connects to X when needed.

Thnaks for the hints I needed to track it down.

BillK



On 19/10/20 1:44 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>
>
> Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 19:17, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au
> <mailto:billk@iinet.net.au>> a écrit :
>
> 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
>
> I start it manually, I've never thought about automating it :)
> On some systems I'm sometimes physically connected with a real
> keyboard and I don't need it in this situation.
>
> Best regards
> Mickaël Bucas
>
> On 19/10/20 12:46 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>> Hi William
>>
>> Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy
>> <billk@iinet.net.au <mailto:billk@iinet.net.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
>