Package request: virtual keyboard (onboard/qvkbd/florence)

[cafehaine]

Package description
Onboard is a virtual keyboard for X11. It would allow using the x11 packages with XSDL without a physical keyboard attached.

Link to home page and sources

1. Home page: https://launchpad.net/onboard
2. Source code: https://launchpad.net/onboard/+download

Notes
I'm suggesting Onboard since I've tried it before on my PC, but similar programs such as qvkbd or any other in this list would do just fine if easier to port

[ghost]

Unfortunately, Onboard is written in python. Packaging of python modules is not easy and I don't want to store them in x11-packages tree.

Instead of this I will look into https://github.com/KivApple/qvkbd or similar.

[Pigpog]

Ive been trying to get Florence keyboard to work, but unfortunately I don't know much about compiling, especially not cross-compiling. Seems to just be the standard ./configure and make, so im sure someone could do it. An on screen keyboard would be lovely.

[ghost]

I have added 'florence' keyboard, package will be available soon. Qvkbd require d-bus functionality which currently not available.

[ghost]

Package is now available: pkg install florence.

I have tested it a bit, it works. But unstable - I touched something in settings and it segfaulted. I'm leaving this issue open as we need something better than 'florence'.

[Pigpog]

Thank you thank you thank you ill try it on DWM

[Pigpog]

Hmmm.. I think it might be missing a dependency for me:

CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: cannot locate symbol "g_main_loop_quit" referenced by "libflorence-1.0.so.1" . . .

[ghost]

@Pigpog Which architecture (uname -a) ?

[Pigpog]

armv7l

[ghost]

Something strange... I don't have this on AArch64/ARM.

Is package glib installed ? Try apt install --reinstall glib.

[Pigpog]

It is. I may have messed up my libraries so ill back up everything and start fresh to confirm

[Pigpog]

reinstalled termux and installed florence, same error.

[ghost]

It works on ARM. I just did this on fresh Termux:

pkg upgrade
pkg install x11-repo
pkg install tigervnc fluxbox florence

Console:

VNC:

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Errors like CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: cannot locate symbol "g_main_loop_quit" referenced by "libflorence-1.0.so.1" . . . usually happens due to binary incompatibility between libraries. My packages compiled against ones from https://github.com/termux/termux-packages so they may not work if you mixing packages from different sources, e.g. official packages + manually compiled.

[Pigpog]

Does uninstalling termux not delete the old usr folder?

[Pigpog]

How do i make it fresh

[ghost]

Does uninstalling termux not delete the old usr folder?
Deletes of course.

I have reproduced problem on Android 5.1.1 (AVD/x86_64). Currently can be solved only by doing:

LD_PRELOAD=libglib-2.0.so:libgio-2.0.so florence

I will try to rebuild florence with static library instead of shared libflorence-1.0.so.1.

[Pigpog]

I am on 5.1.1 so that would make sense. Thank you

[ghost]

Now should be fixed. pkg upgrade.

[Pigpog]

Works!

[twaik]

@xeffyr what do you think about adding matchbox-keyboard?

[twaik]

Cool!