Originally Posted by torx (Post 80812)

very nifty, but could use some polishing.

Originally Posted by Tragos (Post 80872)

Great work! I have a few improvement ideas:

1. Icon in the taskbar. I managed to minimize the window and there was no way to bring it back up.

2. Menu option to hide the transparent keyboard. Currently it is not possible to select and copy text from xterm.

3. Outlined / shadowed font for the keys. It's a bit difficult to see the keys now when there is lots of text in the terminal.

4. Possibility to remap the keys. Maybe there could be another keyboard layout, which could be turned on using one key. For example, one of the backspace keys could be used for this. The current layout is great, but I was missing the Finnish letters "ä" and "ö" while chatting on IRC. ;)

Originally Posted by Tragos (Post 80919)

I now found out why there was no icon in my 770's task bar. I had renamed the executable to "osso-xterm2" before running it. This was to prevent any conflict between this file and the previously installed Osso Xterm (advanced).

I changed the file back to its original name and now I get the icon, too.

Originally Posted by dnastase (Post 80775)

Sorry guys, make the terminal full screen and you'll see the full keyboard.

Also:

'Escape' is the Back/Return hard button (below the joystick).
'<' on the left, 2nd row is: Tab
'S' on the left, 3rd row is: Shift
'C' on the left, last row is: Control
'<' on the right, 1st and 2nd row: is Backspace
'C' on the right, last two positions on the 3rd row: Carriage Return/Enter
nothing on the right, last two positions: Space

Originally Posted by arjun-giri (Post 80834)

Nice idea. But maybe you can leave the orig size of the kb and just make that one transparent so we can use it everywhere in apps no only in xterm.

Originally Posted by cvmiller (Post 80963)

Thanks, this helps ALOT!

I just wanted to let you know I just ran kismet completely with your transparent keyboard. It is a little busy, but completely useable. I was going to ask for arrow keys, and then I realized that the "joystick" works well for that.

Cool stuff! Perhaps you could rename the binary so that it doesn't conflict with the "other" one. Something like osso-xterm-tkbd. Will you be putting up the source? Also have you checked out pypackager (search the forum). It makes creating debs a breeze.

Thanks!

Craig..

Originally Posted by dnastase (Post 80706)

Hi,

One thing that I didn't like about the tablet is that I couldn't properly use the terminal while thumb typing. That's because the thumb keyboard hides the terminal entirely.
How can one use Midnight Commander for instance like that !?

Therefore I have modified the osso-xterm to show a "transparent" keyboard (it's actually only the symbols on a standard QWERTY keyboard) thus allowing to a more natural terminal use.

This is only the first version of the change, but it's functional and I already use it on my tablet.
Of course many improvements can be done, I'm waiting for your opinions.

I am attaching the executable as it is (no packaging) and I would be interested if anybody else finds it useful.
(Actually the .deb file I have attached is a .zip, so pls rename it and unzip it to get the osso-xterm executable. I did this because otherwise it wouldn't let me attach it).

Daniel