How to enable on screen keyboard with lxdm?
I was just looking into this - and I tried the same thing: created /etc/lxdm/LoginReady
from scratch, chmod +x
-ed it, and inserted a logger
statement in the script. The logger message does appear in /var/log/syslog
- however, neither onboard
nor xvkbd
can start (and they can break the logger message too).
It turns out, this maybe is not down to lxdm
, but to lightdm
- in particular, lightdm-gtk-greeter
on my device (see also Is it possible to configure LightDM to load Caribou for the on screen keyboard, replacing onboard? - Ask Ubuntu and Customising the LightDM GTK Greeter | Arcticdog's Kennel).
Somebody apparently made a patch for Arch, and posted it at Bug #905809 “PATCH lightdm-gtk-greeter on screen keyboard suppor...” : Bugs : LightDM GTK+ Greeter; unfortunately the Ubuntu folks didn't seem to be interested.
But in any case, it seems one has to patch all the way down to C code, which is rather unfortunate...
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Renan almost 2 years
I use a touch screen PC (archlinux + lxde). I want to login with lxdm and enter password with florence. I tried to add
/usr/bin/florence
in/etc/lxdm/LoginReady
but it didn't work. Any suggestions?-
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