The plugin uses “matchbox-keyboard” along with the “matchbox-window-manager” to provide an onscreen keyboard which can be useful especially when the only input device is a touchscreen. It requires the Touch Display plugin to be installed.
From the configuration page of the plugin a keyboard layout can be chosen. The plugin currently provides keyboard layouts only for some languages but custom keyboards can be built. To be accessible by the plugin keyboard layout files need to be saved in “/data/plugins/miscellanea/virtual_keyboard/layouts/name of the language/keyboard.xml”. “name of the language” should be descriptive like “English - UK” as this will appear as an entry in the list box on the configuration page of the plugin. If multiple keyboard variants for the same language are desired each variants’ “keyboard.xml” needs its separate folder.
Note: The plugin currently does not work on Volumio 3.
HI all,
is there any update regarding a virtual keyboard for volumio3?
Touch display works great, but without a virtual keyboard to do some search activities you really need this.
@Wolfman74 if you do refer to the above : "The best I got is this. Connect a keyboard to your system and press ALT+HOME. This will open the Chromium browser. ", I do not want to use it on chrome, but on the tactil screen.
this is what I understood. So that could be great to convince the volumio team to help into the migration of the keyboard plugin. if at each upgrade we have risk to lose features without alternatives this is not cool at all.
Sorry, I am not in the mood to get involved in these kind of discussions.
You want a touch screen keyboard, there is one as chromium plugin that does the trick. Since chromium is already a part of the system, it’s a perfect work around as there will be no plugin simply because there is no binary for it.
