Re: [HELP] GOK : unable to display the keyboard

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Michel

There are several issues here.  One, this is a kind-of old GOK (GOK is 
at 0.10.1 now), and I'm not familiar with the state of the Fedora Core 1 
stack.

There are a couple possible problems however -
(1) XKB must be working correctly in order for GOK to successfully 
display the compose keyboard.  You might try running GOK with the 
"--keyboard <namedkeyboard>" option:

gok --keyboard "Keyboard"
to see if GOK displays a mimic-physical keyboard.

Also you can run gconf-editor and select apps/gok, then uncheck 
"use_xkb_geom" to see if the alternate keyboard works for you.  If it 
does, that implicates XKB.

The Menus, Toolbars, and UI Grab keys require that the currently 
focussed applications implement the necessary accessibility support 
(i.e. they must be gtk+ 2 or GNOME 2 apps, more-or-less, though there's 
support available for OpenOffice too if you know how to set it up).  
Also the 'assistive technology support' must be enabled in GNOME 2 for 
these buttons to do anything.  Again you can check this in gconf-editor

/desktop/gnome/interface accessibility = true

but normally you'd turn this on via the Desktop 
Preferences->Accessibility->Assistive Technology Support dialog in the 
GNOME main menus.    There should be more information in the GOK README 
(pay close attention to the section on 'alternative input devices' 
please, noting that running GOK via the primary mouse is inherently 
problematic), and elsewhere in the GNOME Help system.

Let us know what you discover.

best regards,

Bill

> Hi, and thanks Bill and David for your answers.
> In fact, at the end, I'm using the prebuilt gok-0.7.1-4 from Fedora
> Core 1...
>
> I can launch gok and access the Launcher, Activate and Settings
> windows.
> But, on gok 'main' :
> - the buttons : Compose, Window and Pointer have no effects.
> - the buttons : Menus, Toolsbars and UI Grab are greyed.
>
> I'd like to precise I'm using a FR-Latin 1 keyboard and a french Gnome
> UI.
>
> Is there something to configure ?
>
> thanks for any tip,
> Michel.
>
>