[Kindle Touch] xterm & matchbox-keyboard

[Lydovig]

baf

Very interesting. Do not share binaries evilvte?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Lydovig

baf

Very interesting. Do not share binaries evilvte?

What do you mean by that last sentence?

Do you mean you want copies of the binaries?
evilvte is in Ubuntu, so it is probably in Debian as well.

Download the binary from either project's repository, extract from package, try it, report back.

The directions on extracting files from a *.deb archive are indexed.

[baf]

Originally Posted by Lydovig

Very interesting. Do not share binaries evilvte?

Here you are. But it is not "production" quality. Some things don't work.
Before running the binary you may do:

export GTK_IM_MODULE=kindle

This will make use of kindle native keyboard. However native keyboard sends every key twice in this case. I did not investigate why. Maybe it has to do with VTE stuff, because other gtk apps work fine with kindle native input?
To get menu you should click upper right corner, as far as I remember.

[Lydovig]

baf

Thanks a lot. You compile from source? How to do it? With сrosscompiler or compile on Kindle?

[baf]

Originally Posted by Lydovig

With сrosscompiler or compile on Kindle?

Cross compiler. Toolchain built with crosstool-ng.

[Lydovig]

Originally Posted by baf

Cross compiler. Toolchain built with crosstool-ng.

Thank you.

[twobob]

as a no-dependency app. cross-compilers love it. yum!

[Lydovig]

baf

Excellent! It works! However, clicking on the native keyboard does not respond. Maybe I made ​​a mistake in the script.

Spoiler:

#!/bin/sh
EXTENSION=/mnt/us/extensions/evilvte
export HOME=${EXTENSION}/settings

export GTK_IM_MODULE=kindle

init_orientation=`/usr/bin/lipc-get-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock`
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock U
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop -s com.lab126.keyboard open net.fabiszewski.evilvte:Abc:1

${EXTENSION}/bin/evilvte

/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock ${init_orientation}
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop -s com.lab126.keyboard close net.fabiszewski.evilvte

[baf]

Originally Posted by Lydovig

Maybe I made ​​a mistake in the script.

You are opening second instance of keyboard.

Spoiler:

#!/bin/sh
EXTENSION=/mnt/us/extensions/evilvte
export HOME=${EXTENSION}/settings

export GTK_IM_MODULE=kindle

init_orientation=`/usr/bin/lipc-get-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock`
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock U
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop -s com.lab126.keyboard open net.fabiszewski.evilvte:Abc:1

${EXTENSION}/bin/evilvte

/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop com.lab126.winmgr orientationLock ${init_orientation}
/usr/bin/lipc-set-prop -s com.lab126.keyboard close net.fabiszewski.evilvte

[Lydovig]

baf

Thank you. This is also not working. Maybe it's because of my firmware 5.0.0. : (


Still very interesting. To run the application will be a very useful thing.

[baf]

Originally Posted by Lydovig

This is also not working.

Probably Launcher issue. Try to login via ssh and run your script from command line. If your script name is evilvte.sh:

cd /mnt/us/extensions/evilvte/bin
./evilvte.sh

Anyway as I wrote before, there is a bug – native keyboard doubles characters from ascii range. Only your cyrillic would work properly
If you really want to test it use matchbox-keyboard binary from xterm.

[Lydovig]

baf

Thanks a lot! Be sure to experiment!

[Lydovig]

Originally Posted by baf

Probably Launcher issue. Try to login via ssh and run your script from command line. If your script name is evilvte.sh:

cd /mnt/us/extensions/evilvte/bin
./evilvte.sh

Anyway as I wrote before, there is a bug – native keyboard doubles characters from ascii range. Only your cyrillic would work properly
If you really want to test it use matchbox-keyboard binary from xterm.

It works!!!! Excellent! Cyrillic input works!!! However, instead of Cyrillic characters question marks, it probably is because of the non-Russian fonts.

[Lydovig]

baf

evilvte + matchbox-keyboard + elinks

Work together perfectly!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!

[Lydovig]

baf

Please. If possible help to solve the following problems.

evilvte + matchbox-keyboard + elinks

There are a few bugs hampering the work.
1. The keyboard does not go away from the screen after the completion of the terminal. We have to run the script killall matchbox-keybord to get rid of the keyboard.
2. The size of the terminal is too big and part of it is under the keyboard. I do not know how to fix it.
3. Button on the keypad overlay "a/F" you can write only one character. Then it was back to press you have to write the next character. Is it possible to make so that this button does not turn off after the first character?