[dev] [svkbd] Newbie problems

From: Quincy <BBC.Quincy_AT_gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:08:19 +0100

Dear all,

first time post for me after trying to get to run svkbd on a touch
screen computer.

Unfortunately I face several problems with current 0.4.2 (also also
older) versions of the on screen keyboard. Base system is a more or less
up to date Gentoo Linux with libX11-1.8.9 and libXinerama-1.1.5 (if that
is of interest) with freshly cloned repo of svkdb. Here are my current
issues that I face:

1. Shift Keys get highlighted green when touched (indicating waiting for
next input?), but when hitting a letter afterwards, still a lowercase
one shows up.

2. I cannot get the overlays (main advanced feature of svkdb why I
choose this software) to work, there are several (possibly connected)
issues:
     a) Long press (with mouse or touch) only starts repeating the key,
but does not activate the other characters in e.g. svkdb-de.
     b) When using svkbd-mobile-intl there is a reaction to the long
press (some dark olive keys appear), but they are different from the
ones indicated by the blue text on that key and do not finally print the
key which appears, but the original underlying one (e.g. long press on
"2" does not show/print the "_AT_", but a new set with 27 keys where the
position of "2" changes to "3" with an additional "#" as overlay in
overlay which finally prints a "2" when hit again).
     c) When using the "-O" option to *disable* the overlays nothing
seems to change for both layouts.

3. Trying to use the g(eometry) argument e.g. "-g 1920x300+0-0" honors
the size part, but seems to ignore the positioning part. Positioning on
the screen would unfortunately also a major use for me, but it seems
that this is completely ignored despite the example on the webpage using
it, too (there with "+1+1", but this does not change anything). "xclock"
on the very same computer does what I expected...

I'm happy for input what is wrong (perhaps also from my side) for any of
these points to finally use this promising piece of software (all other
screen keyboards I could find suck ;-))

Best

Quincy
Received on Sat Dec 28 2024 - 11:08:19 CET