Hi, Thanks for the useful info.
Yeah, I'm facing what you are facing, and thought of the same features as you, and even contacted the CellWriter author about it before, and he also would like to have them, as well as fixing a docking problem CellWriter has. He even gave me a modified version of CellWriter without a number pad, because it was kind of redundant and takes space on a 10" monitor. Where do we go from here? regards, Ramaddan Michael Flaig <mfl...@pro-linux.de> wrote on 21 Apr 2009, 10:25 PM: Subject: Re: Login Keyboard for Tablet PC >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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
