Ive seen a lot of interesting tablet / multitouch additions to unity, and onboard is probably the best on screen keyboard ive seen yet,
Warmest Regards, Christopher P. Yarger Phone: 802-505-7574 Skype: cpyarger /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. Chris Yarger 30 Averill St #3 Barre, VT 05641 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/22/2015 03:09 PM, Joe Golden wrote: > > The tablet needs to be able to > > * Browse the web > > * Print using Cups drivers > > * Use WiFi to access the world wide internets > > * Use Bluetooth > > I'd love to hear what you come up with. I have a 11" Lenovo Miix 2, > which is great for Linux desktop (8G+256G), but in tablet mode it isn't > great. Chromium (web), Evince (pdf) have some support. As of Winter > 2015, most window managers/desktop environments had poor/frustrating > touchscreen support, so I am just using xfce4 with the keyboard. > > Windows 8 is much better. I actually tried using Windows 8/w Linux > virtual machine initially--at least you get a decent virtual keyboard > that way! > > See if you can stomach the gnome stuff. I'm not sure how far KDE has > come. It was difficult to tell what was what as far as touchscreen > support a few months ago. I recommend you experiment in Arch, not > Debian, it is much more up-to-date. > > Maybe use Chromium as the window manager and try to get some virtual > keyboard working. But this stuff is changing fast. I'd love to be wrong. > Report back! > > -- > Anthony Carrico > > >
