Hello,
I have ubuntu 22.04 LTS and keyman installed.
Is there a way to have an onscreen keyboard from which keys can be entered instead of he hardware keyboard? I have this feature on Windows, but unable to see in ubuntu
thanks
ramOnUbu
Hello,
I have ubuntu 22.04 LTS and keyman installed.
Is there a way to have an onscreen keyboard from which keys can be entered instead of he hardware keyboard? I have this feature on Windows, but unable to see in ubuntu
thanks
ramOnUbu
You can access the keyboard’s OSK via Onboard.
The OSK of the selected keyboard will be reflected, i.e. Arabic keyboard.
(tested on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS running Keyman for Linux v15.0.267-stable)
thank you. I got the onboard app installed. however, I have the following issues
Something missing yet. not able to figure out…
thanks again
ramOnUbu
@EberhardBeilharz may be able to help here?
@ramOnUbu I guess you’re using the Wayland mode. Unfortunately onboard doesn’t work with Wayland. You can try and login with X11 instead (logout, then select your user and click on the cog at the bottom right of your screen. Select “Ubuntu on Xorg”, then enter your password).
You can verify what you’re using by opening About (press Windows-key, type “about” and select the “About” app). In the “Windowing System” row it shows you whether you’re running Wayland or X11.
Also make sure you have onboard-keyman
installed instead of plain onboard
which doesn’t support Keyman (sudo apt install onboard-keyman
).
I switched over to X11 as suggested and both the keyman and onboard work perfectly well. thank you @Marc and @EberhardBeilharz for your timely and accurate help.
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