On 24/02/2020 20:07, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/24/2020 01:42 PM, Jim Price wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is there English documentation available?
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/cellwriter/cellwriter.1.en.html
> refers to http://risujin.org/cellwriter which is apparently in either
> Chinese or Japanese.

I never had sufficient reason to need documentation for it beyond the
--help option, which was actually a reason I chose it in preference to
onboard in historic versions of Ubuntu. More recent onboard versions
have seemingly improved, but still don't really work the way I want.

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