I’ve been playing with a raspberry pi, raspbian, volumio and hifibery dac+, and the Super simple Raspebry pi audio receiver script for some time.
Up to know I used the rpi headless, but I’m considering getting a touch-screen, and I’ve seen that volumio now provides a plug-in for toutch screen.
The question is, is there any virtual keyboard ?
It would be great to be able to use volumio on a single device.
I’ve seen a couple of post in the forum in this respect but they all seems to be walkaround.
I’ve done it with matchbox and altered the XML file to change it to a standard rather than extended keyboard.
This increases the key width but not it’s height.
It’s ok but the keys are difficult to press on smaller RPI screens. The styling isn’t that hot either. It would be great if someone could produce a purpose built kiosk virtual keyboard for Volumio running on RPi Touchscreen.
I’ve attached my minimal keyboard if it’s useful. The only way to increase button height was by deleting keyboard rows. I deleted top & bottom rows & crammed digits on the right side. Ugly but just marginally functional on a 5" display. The file only seems to work as a replacement for original in usr\share\matchbox-keyboard. keyboard.zip (482 Bytes)
Hello people !
Sorry but I am a very “beginner” with Volumio and Rasp.
I have download the file keyboard.xml…
But how to use it ?
Sorry but this question may look very stupid !
Does it have something to look with SSH command ?
thanks a lot for any help !
Hello @chsims1 !
Thanks a lot for your answer !
I discover Putty and succed to connect with ssh.
I’have done “sudo apt-get install matchbox-window-manager matchbox-keyboard”
it is ok - I think the installation is done
I reboot Volumio > nothing > no keyboard !
so I try to do “nano /opt/volumiokiosk.sh”
and add the lines “matchbox-keyboard -d &
matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no &”
and press CTRL + O
but it tell me “permission denied”
ANd still no keyboard on the volumio…Did I miss a step ?
I would refrain from chmod 777. This would give full access (read, write and execute) to an executable file to all users which was not intended by the creator of the system. So without need I would avoid changing file permissions (or at least return them to the previous state after editing the file). As described in my earlier post it is possible to edit volumiokiosk.sh by calling nano with sudo.