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 <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
