Bug 6774

Summary: Daisy 1.6.1 - matchbox-keyboard doesn't "pop up" automatically any more
Product: [Yocto Project Subprojects] Matchbox Reporter: flavio.suligoi
Component: matchboxAssignee: Maxin B. John <maxin.john>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: mhalstead, tobias.andersson
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: arm   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description flavio.suligoi 2014-09-29 09:20:28 UTC 
With the old Dylan 1.4 the matchbox-keyboard works perfectly and pops up automatically when I open a terminal window, or a web browser, or the notes application, etc.

But now, with Daisy 1.6.1 I can use the matchbox-keyboard __ONLY__ if I click manually on the keyboard icon on the matchbox-panel title-bar. It is a big problem in full screen applications (as a web browser in a "kiosk mode", for example).

It seems as the "matchbox-keyboard -d" doesn't receive any more messages from the matchbox windows manager when an application starts.

I'm using a custom i.MX53 ARM board, but the problem can be replicated using a core-image-sato (adding the matchbox-keyboard) with another standard ARM board.

Flavio
Comment 1 Tobias Andersson 2015-11-12 09:45:56 UTC 
Im having the same problem, but on the fido branch. Some tips would be helpfull
Comment 2 Maxin B. John 2015-11-12 10:28:48 UTC 
Hi,

(In reply to comment #1)
> Im having the same problem, but on the fido branch. Some tips would be
> helpfull

Is it possible to share the contents of "/etc/formfactor/machconfig" from your target rootfs ?

Maxin
Comment 3 Tobias Andersson 2015-11-12 11:01:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi,
> 
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Im having the same problem, but on the fido branch. Some tips would be
> > helpfull
> 
> Is it possible to share the contents of "/etc/formfactor/machconfig" from
> your target rootfs ?
> 
> Maxin

No, thats not the problem. Tried running matchbox-keyboard -d from my own startscript, also tried remove HAVE_KEYBOARD from machconfig with no success
Comment 4 Maxin B. John 2015-11-12 12:13:36 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Hi,
> > 
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > Im having the same problem, but on the fido branch. Some tips would be
> > > helpfull
> > 
> > Is it possible to share the contents of "/etc/formfactor/machconfig" from
> > your target rootfs ?
> > 
> > Maxin
> 
> No, thats not the problem. Tried running matchbox-keyboard -d from my own
> startscript, also tried remove HAVE_KEYBOARD from machconfig with no success

Ok, Thanks for checking it.
Comment 5 Maxin B. John 2016-01-04 15:21:25 UTC 
Sent fix for review to oe-core:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-January/114760.html
Comment 7 Maxin B. John 2016-02-02 11:16:15 UTC 
[YOCTO #9027]-Virtual keyboard pop up automatically when click Terminal on qemumips64

says that this patch causes the keyboard to popup if we haven't defined physical keyboard in machconfig.

However 
[YOCTO #8957] - gtk3 apps segfault after im module location fix

means, this fix causes segfault for gtk3 apps.

So, sending another fix to the oe-core Mailing List:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-February/116647.html