The Simple On-screen Keyboard (SOK)

**frafu** · April 29th, 2008

Hello,

Have you tried to reinstall onboard and python-virtkey with the Synaptic Package Manager?

Have you tried to use a layout stored in your home directory instead of letting onboard create the layout when it gets started?

Are you using it on the local computer or are you forwarding your gnome session to a remote computer and working remotely? (On my system, onboard is working locally, but not remotely.)

Cheers

Francesco

**sir_skiner** · April 29th, 2008

yes, I did reinstalled both whith no effect. and I use local access.

could you please tell me how to use custom layout?

**frafu** · April 29th, 2008

Please have a look at this thread.

This bug might be related.

You can find further information on these wikipages.

To simplify things for you, I am uploading a custom layout from my computer. Uncompress it and put the 4 files the hidden ~/.sok/layouts folder. Start onboard-settings, set it to use the local layout and close onboard-settings. Start onboard.

Hoping that this helps.

Francesco

**frafu** · April 29th, 2008

Here it is.

**sir_skiner** · April 29th, 2008

unfortunatly nothing helps.

i can't work whith ubuntu whithout onboard so i'm unable to build patched python-virtkeys

**sir_skiner** · May 2nd, 2008

ok, so fix made by Chris Jones from the launchpad.net works almost fine, except now I can't type polish special chars. any ideas what to do?

here's patched build.

**michaelwilliamson** · June 13th, 2008

im using sok (onboard) on a tabletpc and am trying to use it with some 3d graphics applications which use keyboard modifiers in combination with mouse clicks.... eg "alt" and "leftmouseclick" is rotate view, "ctrl" + "alt" + "leftmouseclick" is zoom view....

onboard doesn't seem to work like the real physical keyboard here. All I get are unmodified left mouse clicks.

am i missing something? do i need to add anything to xorg.conf? or is this just unsupported functionality?

**Belathor** · June 16th, 2008

Originally Posted by michaelwilliamson

im using sok (onboard) on a tabletpc...

Are you aware of cellwriter? It has an onscreen keyboard as well and is more geared for tabletpcs in that it emulates the TIP to a greater extent.

**michaelwilliamson** · June 16th, 2008

Yes, I've tried cellWriter too and it seems to have the same problems unfortunately, though some other keyboard shortcuts seem to work better than with onboard....

Ah well.