On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:36:12 +0200 Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@...> wrote: > While researching for this project I re-read what KDE 4 devs had said about > having to give up KDE 3 because it was not "touchfriendly", so I tried TDE on > Ubuntu. Now, TDE is actually very usable on a touchscreen. There is ONE > problem - I can't find a way to activate an onscreen keyboard. > > Ubuntu/Unity starts a tool called "onboard" that works almost as expected > (does not always seem to see if an external keyboard is present). It seems to > be linked to lightdm. > > I can try to run Trinity with lightdm. Or has anyone a suggestion as to how to > get an onscreen keyboard with tdm? Actual deps for Onboard 1.1.1, according to the first ebuild I checked: at-spi2-core, iso-codes, glib, libappindicator, dbus-python, pycairo, dconf (gnome), mousetweaks (gnome), libcanberra, cairo, gdk-pixbuf, gtk+-3, pango, X. In other words, lightdm is not a requirement per se (although that doesn't mean it'll work with tdm). It looks like another option would be xvkbd ( http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/ ), which only requires basic X libraries. A project called xkbd appears to be similar, but has no surviving homepage (your distro might still package it). Matchbox-keyboard has been subsumed by another project, but again, your distro might still have a package. Those are all the possibilities I could find in a hurry. E. Liddell