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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: JIM PRICE
date: 2020-02-24 19:42:00
subject: Re: On-screen keyboard fo

On 24/02/2020 19:20, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I'm wondering about using one of the new high resolution 4", 5" or 7"
> displays and a Pi Zero W to create what's effectively a replacement for
> an old WinCE-based PDA, but it would need a pop-up on-screen keyboard.
>
> So, has experience with an onscreen keyboard application that would run
> on an RPi?

Not specifically on the Pi, but on general Linux systems I tend to use
cellwriter. It's default mode is handwriting recognition, but it can be
optionally started with --keyboard-only, which I prefer to the other
onscreen keyboards I've tried. Available in Raspbian and Ubuntu AFAICT.

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