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realroot

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Registered: 2022-04-24

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Touchscreen DE

I have a tablet I tried Gnome/KDE with X/Wayland, Openbox and Sway.
It is not a nice experience.

AFAIK GUI for touch are JingOS DE, phosh and KDE mobile.

Can I get to run JingOS DE? Or one of the other at least.

Can I have a virtual keyboard when unlocking luks and when using the bootloader?
I am using grub now.

Last edited by realroot (2022-04-24 19:36:20)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: Touchscreen DE

If you unlock luks after booting the kernel, then you can probably set up osk-sdl or maybe there is some way with plymouth.
I have no idea what the required components for the JingOS DE would be. If you know those you can probably package them for arch linux.

Last edited by progandy (2022-04-24 19:47:17)

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realroot

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Registered: 2022-04-24

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Re: Touchscreen DE

It seems that no part of JingOS sources was ever released, for x86_64.

Last edited by realroot (2022-05-12 08:22:44)

realroot

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Re: Touchscreen DE

postmarketOS DEs should work fine for touch, can somebody port them to Arch?
I can try plasma-mobile https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma-mobile.

Last edited by realroot (2022-04-26 17:53:07)

realroot

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Re: Touchscreen DE

I can see plasma mobile on SDDM but I can't log in.

maliit-keyboard doesn't have arrow keys etc., mouse keys and it can't be invoked/revoked.
Not showing on firefox for example.

I can't use squeekboard from AUR:

squeekboard

** (squeekboard:1706): ERROR **: 09:34:46.236: No virtual keyboard manager Wayland global available.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Gnome keyboard appears only for GTK apps and sometimes doesn't work.
No arrow keys etc., mouse keys and it can't be invoked/revoked.

What is a keyboard like onboard but for wayland?

On X some problem with qt apps but thanks to touchegg I can close the right click menu.
And the pointer is shown, not a big deal.
onboard mouse clicks don't work well on Openbox and KDE.

How do I make osk-sdl appear when unlocking luks?
First grub loads the kernel and then unlock right?

Last edited by realroot (2022-04-27 19:57:18)