XVkbd virtual keyboard

I have compiled XVkbd in T2.

Project page:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/

Discussion about xvkbd in Puppy Forum:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54534

XVkbd will be in the next Quirky.

I have created a wrapper script, to start it with correct layout for the country/language.
It can be started from the menu, in Desktop category, also from the tray.

It occurred to me that this might be useful as we move toward supporting touch screens.

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More discussion is here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84617

However, jamesbond has gone one better by using dejavu fonts. He created a patch for the source code:
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/fatdog/source/700/patches/xvkbd-3.5-fonts.patch

I haven't modified the source, instead have modified my FIXUPHACK file to use the dejavu fonts, based on Jame's work:

XVKBDfiles="$(find etc/X11/app-defaults -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'XVkbd-*' 2>/dev/null)"

[ ! "$XVKBDfiles" ] && XVKBDfiles="$(find usr/share/X11/app-defaults -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'XVkbd-*')"



for AFILE in ${XVKBDfiles}

do

 [ "$AFILE" == "" ] && continue

 sed -i -e 's%\-helvetica\-%-dejavu sans-%' ${AFILE}

 sed -i -e 's%\-lucidatypewriter\-%-dejavu sans-%' ${AFILE}

 sed -i -e 's%\-lucida\-%-dejavu sans-%' ${AFILE}

 sed -i -e 's%\-\*\-\*\-\*\-\*\-\*\-iso8859\-.%-*-*-*-p-*-*-*%' ${AFILE}

 sed -i -e 's%\-\*\-\*\-\*\-\*\-\*\-koi8\-r%-*-*-*-p-*-*-*%' ${AFILE}

 sed -i -e 's%\-i\-%-r-%' ${AFILE}

done

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