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How to install matchbox-keyboard 2016-08-31

How to install Soft Keyboard

This installation tutorial uses "2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie" version for testing. If use wheezy or

earlier image, then the step5 and step6 have different file paths, pls refer to the

virtual-keyboard official installation tutorial for specification.

Official reference address (English)

http://ozzmaker.com/virtual-keyboard-for-the-raspberry-pi/

1, install the necessary files

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libfakekey-devlibpng-devautoconflibxft-devlibtoolautomake -y

2, install the matchbox-keyboard

git clone https://github.com/mwilliams03/matchbox-keyboard.git

cd matchbox-keyboard

./autogen.sh

(Note: "./ autogen.sh" execution takes a few minutes, and would show as follows after running

correctly; if it doesn’t show as follows, then need to check to see if there are error Popup

Window prompt)

Continue:

sudomake

sudo make install

3, install the shared data library for matchbox-keyboard

sudo apt-get install libmatchbox1 –y

As following:

Summary of content (4 pages)

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How to install matchbox-keyboard 2016-08-31 How to install Soft Keyboard This installation tutorial uses "2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie" version for testing. If use wheezy or earlier image, then the step5 and step6 have different file paths, pls refer to the virtual-keyboard official installation tutorial for specification. Official reference address (English) http://ozzmaker.
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How to install matchbox-keyboard 4. Create a virtual keyboard startup script sudonano /usr/bin/toggle-matchbox-keyboard.sh Paste the following, press ctrl + x and y, to save then exit #!/bin/bash #This script toggle the virtual keyboard PID=`pidof matchbox-keyboard` if [ ! -e $PID ]; then killall matchbox-keyboard else matchbox-keyboard -s 50 extended& fi Add executable permission for the script above sudochmod +x /usr/bin/toggle-matchbox-keyboard.
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How to install matchbox-keyboard 2016-08-31 6, create an icon on the taskbar (Note that in this step, must be "pi" user privileges, if you use administrator privileges, will not find the file) nano ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel 7, find the resembles similar to the following command (default content may be different in different Raspberry Pi versions) Plugin { type=launchbar Config { Button { id=/usr/share/applications/lxde-x-www-browser.
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How to install matchbox-keyboard 2016-08-31 8, after modifying, run the following command and re-start the system; you will see a virtual keyboard icon in taskbar on the screen normally. sudo reboot P.S. Log into via SSH to see how to change the size of the virtual keyboard DISPLAY=:0.0 matchbox-keyboard -s 50 extended DISPLAY=:0.