ok. I have SOLVED all of this. I put this in the 4dsystems forum, and I repost it here.
The 4dsystems beaglebone cape with Ubuntu + LXDE is working just fine, and here is how I did it: This is for ubuntu 14.04 and lxde, there is a utility named xinput_calibrator for x11 steps to make this work: Note: I use the lxde window manager, so you might have to change this for your wm: ssh into the beaglebone: need to get a virtual keyboard up, and get past the login screen: 1. as root, do an *apt-get install xvkbd* (so that you can run the terminal and use touchscreen for giving commands 2. as root, edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf: ## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin autologin=ubuntu (or whatever username you have made) ## uncomment and set timeout to enable timeout autologin, ## the value should >=5 timeout=5 2. as the user (ubuntu, or other user edited as autologin= in the lxdm.conf file): so in the $HOME/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart I added this: xvkbd -minimizable -no-keypad -geometry +150+150 & the above gets the virtual xvkbd up on the screen (if not running with a keyboard, like me) now: shutdown the bbb, and attach to the LCD cape, and boot up to the screen. (1) the login screen should come up, wait for 5 seconds for the login to time out, then wait for lxde to start up (2) you should see the screen come up with the virtual keyboard now, start a terminal. hopefully it is an icon, if not, make it one and start again once a terminal is up, focus to the terminal, then focus to the virtual keyboard 3. sudo su - now, as root do: 4. apt-get install xinput-calibrator 5. run xinput_calibrator and you will get something like the following: Section "InputClass" Identifier "calibration" MatchProduct "ti-tsc" Option "Calibration" "121 4028 303 3852" Option "SwapAxes" "0" EndSection 6. edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: and add that above section to it. 7. shutdown and boot up again. The screen should be calibrated correctly! I hope this helps everyone. Whew! I am ECSTATIC! -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Jerry Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a BBB with a Ubuntu 14.04 distro on it. > I have the 4DSystems LCD cape. > I have LXDE wm on it. > > This all works fine. > > What I need is a virtual keyboard (preferrably one that pops up when I > click an input box). > I have installed florence, but it apparently only works with GNOME. > > I need something that works with LXDE. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Jerry > > -- > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer > > > *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new > discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov > > *I* > *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you > teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- > Anonymous > > > *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really > excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
