Thread: yet another osk: xvkbd (because it's good to have a choice! :)
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delaroca is offline delaroca
2008-09-28 , 11:49
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#37
Originally Posted by KotCzarny View Post
ok, here are some, and yes, layout is flexible, but i only added 'hide' button because it's fine for me
as for documentation, probably looking at example layout files. they're in the source package, i have put some of them in the same place as binary, for example german layout:

mkdir /etc/X11/app-defaults/
wget -O/etc/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-german http://mrrau.dyndns.org:23280/n800/x...Vkbd-german.ad

then you will have it selectable as a runtime menu option
Ok, two problems. First, the "Hide button" mod is not in the keyboard layout file itself... I surmise it is a mod on the xvkbd code, no? I loaded the German layout that you provided and sure enough switching to it makes the "Hide button" go away. Edit: In fact, going back to the "default (US" layout doesn't bring back the "hide button".

Second problem, on checking the Spanish layout file (from the v2.9 distribution of xvbkd) I see that the lowercase / uppercase mapping of spanish "n" with diacritical "~" is not quite right: the lowercase mapping comes out in uppercase... I suspect that there's a character-set problem involved. In comparison, the v3.0 of xvbkd that I have tried on Easy Debian seems to have the international character maps perfect. Edit: The situation is that the onscreen kbd keys are all shown in uppercase, but are actually delivered in the right case as coded in the layout files.

-- Denis
Last edited by delaroca; 2008-09-28 at 15:57.