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rastersoft / panther_launcher

A fork from Slingshot Launcher, which doesn't depend on Gala, Granite or other libraries. It also has an applet for Gnome Flashback and an extension for Gnome Shell.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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typing into search box is impossible with virtual keyboards such as onboard, florence and cellwriter #20

Open trappedinspacetime opened 7 years ago

trappedinspacetime commented 7 years ago

First of all thank you for developing such a nice and useful application. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. I cloned and built panther_launcher, it launches well and it's faster to toggle its visibility with 

    dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=com.rastersoft.panther /com/rastersoft/panther/remotecontrol  'com.rastersoft.panther.remotecontrol.DoShow'

I am using my computer by means of virtual keyboard onboard. After I launch panther_launcher, it disappears as soon as I try to type in with a virtual keyboard.

I checked out the source code to disable its hide on losing focus feature but I couldn't get my head around it.
How can I workaround its hiding itself while typing in with virtual keyboards? Regards.

Kenn

rastersoft commented 7 years ago

Hi: It's a good question... panther_launcher is designed to disappear when clicking outside its window, so it seems incompatible with a virtual keyboard. It should be possible to disable that, I think...

Anyway, which desktop are you using? I ask this because for gnome shell you have activity_app_launcher, an extension that I created and that is, I think, much better in case you are using that desktop manager.

trappedinspacetime commented 7 years ago

Thank you for responding. I created a custom desktop session called awn which uses Avant Window Navigator dock. My session file /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/awn.session : 

 [GNOME Session]
 Name=AWN
 RequiredComponents=unity-settings-daemon;compiz;avant-window-navigator;
 DesktopName=Unity

I think gnome scripts won't run in it.