Virtual keyboard does not work for some applications, other problems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Moblin UI Framework |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Bob Spencer |
Bug Description
Bug detailed description:
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I have tried out various GUI applications in both the emulation environment and on the Samsung Q1 Ultra with a Live USB image, and I have discovered four different applications for which the virtual keyboard (VK) doesn't work. These applications are xvncviewer, xtightvncviewer, chimera2 (a Web browser), and axe. I believe that Tight VNC derives from a similar source base as the regular VNC viewer, so the cause of the problem with xvncviewer is probably the same as with xtightvncviewer. Basically, after connecting to a remote desktop with xvncviewer, causing the VK to come up and clicking on the VK doesn't do anything. The same problem occurs for axe and chimera2.
With xvncviewer and xtightvncviewer, there are also additional problems. After hitting F8 (from a hardware keyboard) to cause the pop-up menu to be displayed, click on the show fullscreen menu entry. This will cause the VNC window to disappear, but it can be seen, by using ps from the terminal, that xvncviewer is still running.
Note that all four of these apps aren't recognized by the task bar (when started from mobile-
Note also that the vast majority of applications work fine with the VK, including Tcl/Tk applications, Qt, Gtk (without hildonization), pure X (such as rdesktop), and more. The problem might be with the four applications and not matchbox, but it's hard to say without doing some debugging. The hardware keyboard works fine for all these apps.
Reproduce steps:
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To reproduce this for any of the four apps, first use apt-get install to install the respective app (i.e. apt-get install xvncviewer). Then either modify the configuration for mobile-basic-player to launch it from the flash app or start up a terminal/xterm window and launch from there. For the steps mentioned in the "detailed description" section above.
Current result:
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VK doesn't work with certain applications, plus the other problems listed above.
Expected result:
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VK works with the applications, plus the other issues are fixed.
Basic root-causing log:
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Changed in moblin-ui-framework: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in moblin-ui-framework: | |
milestone: | none → fix-later |
Changed in moblin-ui-framework: | |
importance: | Medium → Wishlist |
Note that the problem can quickly be reproduced by VNCing into a Samsung Q1 Ultra that I have setup with x11vnc, at mobile- 4395.jf. intel.com . All four apps are installed, and xvncviewer can be accessed from the mobile-basic-player app.