{"id":25,"date":"2007-02-14T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/14\/a-better-linux-on-screen-keyboard\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T04:32:20","slug":"a-better-linux-on-screen-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/14\/a-better-linux-on-screen-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Linux On Screen Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Ubuntu Linux on my desktop, and Gentoo Linux on my server\/router at home. Right now, I am in the process of installing a computer in my shiny new Grand Am (I&#8217;m going to add a few pages about that here soon), and I&#8217;ve bought a number of things for it and am in the process of installing the software for the computer. One of the items is a 7&#8243; touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with a touchscreen, having a nice on screen keyboard is critical. Gentoo didn&#8217;t really have anything nice, but the default keyboard installed for Ubuntu is pretty awesome! So, I&#8217;ve created a portage overlay for it, which you can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/download\/onboard-0.85.tar.bz2\" title=\"Portage overlay for onBoard.\">using this link here<\/a>. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/gentoo-wiki.com\/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds\" title=\"How to install 3rd party ebuilds\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> if you want more information on how to install packages using a portage overlay. I&#8217;ve also submitted the ebuilds to bugs.gentoo.org, and you can view that <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=166876\" title=\"Ebuild submission.\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you use this, keep in mind that this is NOT an official package of any kind, so its not supported by anyone, including myself. I might help you if you&#8217;re nice, but I&#8217;m not obligated to. With that said, it should work just fine for you, it seems to be quite stable and has minimal dependencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Ubuntu Linux on my desktop, and Gentoo Linux on my server\/router at home. Right now, I am in the process of installing a computer in my shiny new Grand Am (I&#8217;m going to add a few pages about that here soon), and I&#8217;ve bought a number of things for it and am in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}