Thread: Minimo Installer for the iLiad (beta)
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Old 11-30-2007, 03:33 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by ldng View Post
It seems that the virtual keyboard is matchbox-keyboard, so I guess one can always
launch it in a thread.

In a shell, to see the beast :
# DISPLAY=:0 matchbox-keyboard
Does this mean that it is straight-forward to create shell scripts that take user input via the matchbox-keyboard? If so, anyone got an example to share?

I'm thinking that it should be possible, for example, to create a search script that works across more than just the current directory. And possibly some other ideas.
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