Re: Virtual keyboard in activities

[Giacomo Montagner <mantager gmail com>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:55:12 +0200
Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:

> 2011/7/12 Giacomo Montagner <mantager gmail com>
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> > is there a way to have an on-screen virtual keyboard when in "activities"
> > mode?
> > As far as I can see, even enabling screen keyboard through universal access
> > settings
> > won't do the trick.
> >
> 
> The bad news is: no, because "normal" windows cannot be used in the
> overview.
> 
> The good news is: in 3.2. gnome-shell will have an integrated on-screen
> keyboard, which will work in the overview.
> 
> There is a bug[0] to follow, though the actual code currently lives on
> github[1] (I'm sure testing is appreciated).
> 
> I hope those are helpful pointers - sorry for any inconvenience.
> 
> 
> Florian
> 
> [0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612662
> [1] https://github.com/nohemi/GNOME-OnScreen-Keyboard



Thanks for the quick reply, Florian. 

I will give it a try if I find a little spare time :)

Giacomo