The Simple On-screen Keyboard (SOK)

[puccaso]

if you are using nx commercial - ie nx machine - then there might be hope... because they could suppose you *maybe* just dont tel them u use edgy. lol - let them figure it out.

otherwise, freenx definatly is not stable...

however, from what i remember hearing - nomachine has become 2xterminalserver or something like that? and they are going gpl in a year or so, so by that time - it will definatly work.
what you might try tho - the original file you said wouldnt install - you might want to try and compile it against ur own glibc..

newbie hu? i remeber those days - tho i would reccomend gentoo to u for a year or so - just so u understand the ins and outs, ubuntu will get u too comfortable too quick with a gui - ... plus in gentoo...
if u wanted to install sok - it would automatically upgrade anytthing needed for sok to work - tho i dont know is sok is a ubuntu thing - or a gnome thing.... do some research - enjoy

[ashrack]

thats probably because, its only avaliable on edgy.
i wouldnt reccomend the download/upgrade if you dont have alot of patience.

the worst thing for me on edgy, is the rhythmbox issue (you cant add music from folders/ smb mounts)

but you can play through daap so i am ok.

edgy is faster, and snappier then dapper.
u just got ur system -
christen it with some edgy water.

(im not a christian, but we dont have an equivelant) haha.

enjoy.

So SOK wont work on DAPPER?

[puccaso]

well, from what ive heard its for edgy,
it compiles against some new python stuff i think
that isnt avaliable in dapper.
but the only way you might be able to install it
is to compile from source

[t0rtois3]

So SOK wont work on DAPPER?

It does though it's not in the repo's. Grab debs here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibilit...ts/onBoard/dev

The keys are further apart for odd reasons and the system tray icon doesn't work on dapper. Other than that it works fine.

[frafu]

Yesterday I downloaded the new version (onboard_0.85_all.deb virtkey_0.41_i386.deb) from here and they installed without error.

Then I double clicked on the installed onboard file; I got the popup where I chose "run in terminal" and the keyboard appeared on the screen.

I used it successfully with firefox; though it sometimes repeated a few characters. Did I type to quickly and the onscreen keyboard was not fast enough? Were my at-spi badly configured? I did not have the time to test it seriously.

However the bottom line is that it now seems to work on dapper too.

frafu

[ashrack]

At school we have 5computers using DAPPER and the current crappy GOK!
So now Im wondering should I upgrade them to EDGY when its out?
There are a lot of disabled students in our school which need OnScreenKeybord and also the Magnifier...

Which accesibility options are better in Edgy than in Dapper?

[Henrik]

The beta of Edgy will be out this week, and after that it should not change too much. You could even try upgrading now and then run an update again when it's out.

In Edgy GOK will be replaced by onBoard and Gnopernicus replaced by Orca. The magnifier component will not change much though.

[frafu]

I am not able to type with onboard in the modal dialogbox asking for the admin password (for example when opening the Update Manager).

Is this normal?
(onboard on Dapper)

frafu

[t0rtois3]

I used it successfully with firefox; though it sometimes repeated a few characters. Did I type to quickly and the onscreen keyboard was not fast enough? Were my at-spi badly configured? I did not have the time to test it seriously.
frafu

Does the repeating happen in other application or just firefox? Does it occur all the time or only when for example you type in the address bar?

[frafu]

@t0rtois3

It does it also in gedit, in the modal dialogue box asking for the admin password, in the find box of the synaptic package manager,...

I have found something interesting: when I type for example the letter 'a' and I leave the onboard window with the mouse, it repeats the letter 'a'; then I place the mouse on the onboard window again and leave the window without typing anything another time, then the letter 'a' is repeated again: and so on every time the mouse enters and leaves the onboard window.

Maybe I should point out that I am using onboard on dapper and that I forward the ubuntusession using vnc to a macosx. (onboard does not start on a session forwarded with nx)

frafu