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Update 7-inch Touch Display with information on wvkbd
Turn the NOTE block in the Touch Display documentation into an actual section talking about how to use an on-screen keyboard now we know that wvkbd works under Wayland.
The new "on screen keyboard" section should go just before the "screen orientation" section, with the existing NOTE block getting subsumed into it along with the new information about wvkbd.
wvkbd is not listed in the menue. Since I've working with touchscreen I cannot call it without a keyboard via execute. Sorry, I don't know how to inetgrate it in the menue. Can someone please post a way? Thank you Markus
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Hi @aallan, I see that you merged #3540. But the wvkbd instruction does not seem working on my side. After I run the isntall command, um... what next? It does not work out of the box. No keyboard shows up when I touch the text editor. I'm using Rasp Pi 4 and the official 7" display. So, maybe something is missing?
Thanks.
@nguyenlamlll : great question! Unfortunately it looks like wvkbd doesn't pop up automatically when you click a text entry field. Instead, you need to manually invoke it by running the wvkbd command in your terminal... which is obviously a little hard to do when you don't have a keyboard attached!
There's a forum post with some workarounds (https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358147), including a script pinned to the desktop and a macro connected to the middle mouse click. For now, you might be able to use one of those approaches. I'll investigate internally and with the wvkbd folks to see if there's any way to get the automagic bits working in the software side of things.
@nathan-contino: Thank you very much for your quick update! I will head over there and have a look.
p/s: Can we/Should we extend the documentation page a bit to let other folks know how to open the keyboard? Or maybe it's just me who doesn't know...?
@nathan-contino More info in https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/14 too.
