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Make a service for a on-screen kbd on ttys

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Make a service for a on-screen kbd on ttys

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Having an OSK (on-screen kbd) that work on ttys, how can I make a service that automatically opens it?
When you open a tty that it is not the 7th cause on Debian there there is the GUI.
Also you have to killed it when you switch to the GUI otherwise it will interfere, and restart it if something closes it or you switch tty.

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Re: Make a service for a on-screen kbd on ttys

#2 Post by CwF »

You would maybe have thought some Android something would have kicked back some love by now...
https://github.com/zrafa/onscreenkeyboard

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Re: Make a service for a on-screen kbd on ttys

#3 Post by Scorpion »

I used https://github.com/julianwi/fbkeyboard, but it doesn't have navigation keys: arrow keys, pag up etc.
And it seems hard to implement https://github.com/julianwi/fbkeyboard/issues/3.

So now I switched to https://gitlab.com/cherrypicker/buffyboard that is also a pretty active project.
It needs some git submodule, so to package it for Debian is not very trivial.
Problem is that when you switch tty you need the keyboard to log in and start using it.

I am using this https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/TTYescape, so I can use only 1 tty.
A service that handle that would be nice, so that you can use all ttys using chvt etc.

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