Hi, i also have a tablet pc - a hp 2710p - which has a keyboard. I don't use ubuntu-mid on it. It is powerful enough to run full gnome and I need lots of gnome apps that are not yet available in a hildonized flavour. With a 12.1" screen and global menu applet it is quite usable.
However the issues you see are almost the same for me as I dislike turning the display every time I boot. ecryptfs is not secure enough for me so I use dm-crypt for /home, /tmp and swap On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 02:46 +0000, Ramaddan wrote: > Hi, > > > I have been using Ubuntu Mobile for a while, and happy with it, and > even updated it to Jaunty. > > > It fits better with the Tablet PC than Ubuntu-Netbook. > > > Thanks to all those who made this available. > > > I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following: > > 1) I have an idea of how to make "xvkbd" come up at login, since I > need it for a Tablet PC with no keyboard. > > > However, what I currently do is anugly hack as follows: > > > sleep 5 && /usr/bin/xvkbd -geometry -10-10 & # This is used for the > xvkbd keyboard during login > > > That I place before the "exit 0" line at the end of the following > file: > > > /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default > > > However, I was wondering if anyone can give me a more proper way to > achieve this, something that is more in line with what is actually > happening when GDM is login. I prefer cellwriter for input which has quite nice handwriting recognition and a virtual keyboard. It lacks multilanguage support for the virtual keyboard, though. I integrated it into gnome-screensaver, through the appropriate gconf settings but for GDM this not possible so the only way I know is like you wrote "the ugly hack". > 2) This is kind of a long shot, but I was wondering whether there is > any way of making the Touch LCD detect and work as Ubuntu is booting, > and if a virtual keyboard could also be provided at bootup. I think in console mode it is rather hard, but if you do it like me and encrypt /home it would not be necessary to enter the password at boot time but rather before login. tmp and swap can be generated automatically at bootup with a random key. > The reason I am asking this is that currently, due to the nature of > Tablet PCs with no keyboard, I cannot encrypt the hardisk of the PC, > because I will not be able to type in the password at log in. So gdm needs 2 things to work better for us tablet pc users: a) Better virtual keyboard support like in gnome-screensaver b) A possibility to decrypt partitions before showing the login screen. > Thus, Tablet PCs with no keyboard lose out on this security feature. This is the reason (besides the price) I didn't go for a motion computing le1700 but the hp instead. > I would really appreciate it if anyone can give me any pointers or > direction on this. Sorry I can not be of much help :( However I heard a while ago of a gdm rewrite going on with a clutter interface and a nice face browser - if I find where this project moved I may be able to address this on the wishlist. If you need to enter the harddisk encryption prior to login there would be another benifit: Fingerpint authentication which has the data on home would be more secure - first because the signature file that holds your fingerprint informations is encrypted and second because you need a password first (2-way authentication if you will) As we are already on topic of the input panels: there are plenty out there and I think it would make sense for gnome to provide hildon-input-method as a general way for them to input text (which also allows popping up the panel if needed (when you select a edit or text box) and otherwise disappear. For example a floating panel could look like the new notfication bubble - visible when active and only 10% visible when not in use. combined with him you could have various keyboards as plugins. Just a thought. --- Mike -- Michael Flaig <mfl...@pro-linux.de> PROLinux.de -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
