buildbotics/bbkbd

On screen keyboard

Buildbotics

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Prerequisites

• C!
• libre2
• mariadb

In Debian Linux, after installing C!, you can install the prerequsites as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev mariadb-server ssl-cert \
  python-mysql.connector

Build

export CBANG_HOME=/path/to/cbang
scons

Create the DB and user

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE buildbotics;
CREATE USER 'buildbotics'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT EXECUTE ON buildbotics.* TO 'buildbotics'@'localhost';
exit
./src/sql/update_db.py

bbkbd's Issues

Running bbkbd under other WMs

I've been testing onscreen keyboards in a touchscreen project and I like bbkbd very much. The default behavior with herbstluftwm is nice in that the keyboard does not obscure the contents of the window above but rather the window above resizes to make room for the keyboard below. The only issue I have is that when hiding bbkbd the window above does not resize back to full screen, I have to exit bbkbd completely. In the screen shots below:

1. bbkbd is running but has not been displayed yet.
2. pkill -USR1 bbkbd to display the keyboard (top window resizes)
3. pkill -USR2 bbkbd to hide the keyboard (top window does not return to full screen as desired)
4. killall bbkbd to exit bbkbd (top window resizes to full screen)

I've tried a couple patches in the keyboard toggle code like lowering the window but it didn't help. Any ideas or do you think this is more a function of the WM?