Re: Virtual keyboard for X

You are my hero :-)

Tom

For those interested in virtual keyboards, I recommend looking at:
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/tools/xvkbd-e.html

It's an X virtual keyboard that seems pretty good. You can launch it as
full, keypad only, compact or whatever. Seems to work pretty well,
except for some sizing issues. I recommend the attached .Xdefaults
below to make the sizing sensible if you plan on going very small (we've
got it sitting in 240x120 at the moment). Suggested Xdefaults were
courtesy of Tom Sato, the author.

The keyboard itself is very easy to configure as well, via the source
code. It was trivial to make some changes that I wanted (moving the
arrow keys to another row). I've set up this program so that it gets
launched when we hit a button on the front of our unit and killed when
we hit it again. Simplistic, but it makes the keyboard do what we want.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! app-defaults to make xvkbd (version 0.1) window very small

xvkbd.geometry: 240x120+0+200
xvkbd.compact: true
xvkbd.autoRepeat: false
xvkbd*Font: fixed

xvkbd*Command.height: 15
xvkbd*Repeater.height: 15
xvkbd*Alt_L.width: 30
xvkbd*Meta_L.width: 30
xvkbd*Up.width: 20
xvkbd*Down.width: 20
xvkbd*Left.width: 20
xvkbd*Right.width: 20

xvkbd*Alt_R.width: 1
xvkbd*Meta_R.width: 1
xvkbd*Alt_R.mappedWhenManged: false
xvkbd*Meta_R.mappedWhenManged: false

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