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