Disable weston-keyboard in cog

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Hello,

how can i disable the weston virtual keyboard in the cog browser?

I’m running the containers described here: Web Browser / Kiosk Mode with TorizonCore | Toradex Developer Center.

The weston.ini is untouched.

cat /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini
[core]
idle-time=0
require-input=false
xwayland=true
modules=screen-share.so

[shell]
background-image=
background-color=0x00000000
panel-position=none
locking=false
allow-zap=false
num-workspaces=1

[keyboard]
vt-switching=false

Thanks,
Fabian

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Greetings @wheeler,

Yeah Cog is a little strange with they virtual keyboard interaction. One workaround to disable it would be to run Weston with kiosk-shell: Working with Weston on TorizonCore | Toradex Developer Center

Another option would be to modify the weston.ini so that weston-keyboard has a invalid path. For example:

[input-method]
path=/usr/lib/<wrong-path>/weston-keyboard

Best Regards,
Jeremias

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Hello @jeremias.tx,

thank you very much. the virtual keyboard and the cursor are now hidden with cog. however when i switch to the chromium browser the mouse cursor is still visible. How can i hide the mouse cursor in chromium?

Best regards,
Fabian

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That’s odd, Chromium seems to ignore the kiosk-shell of Weston and adds the cursor back in. The only way I can reliably not have a cursor is by disconnecting my mouse from the device.

Do you have a mouse connected to your system? Or some kind of input device that could be interpreted as a mouse? It seems like disabling the cursor in Chromium is not so trivial otherwise.

Best Regards,
Jeremias

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Hi @wheeler !

If your touchscreen behaves like a mouse (although it shouldn’t), maybe this workaround is useful for you:

The question above has other interesting links that might help you as well.

Best regards,

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Thank you @henrique.tx @jeremias.tx

I have a touch monitor connected:

[  151.089676] 000: input: ILITEK Multi-Touch-V3003 Mouse as /devices/platform/32f10108.usb/38200000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.1.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:222A:0001.0005/input/input10
[  151.090515] 000: hid-generic 0003:222A:0001.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [ILITEK Multi-Touch-V3003] on usb-xhci-hcd.1.auto-1.2/input0
[  151.098381] 000: input: ILITEK Multi-Touch-V3003 as /devices/platform/32f10108.usb/38200000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.1.auto/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:222A:0001.0006/input/input12
[  151.098923] 000: hid-multitouch 0003:222A:0001.0006: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [ILITEK Multi-Touch-V3003] on usb-xhci-hcd.1.auto-1.2/input1

So this means the touch is interpreted as a mouse?

Edit:
The mouse cursor hides when unplugging the usb touch.

Best regards,
Fabian

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Hi @wheeler !

So seems like yes:

  • You are using Ilitek: the same as the user from the referred question above,
  • And you have the “USB HID v1.10 Mouse” on your logs.

Best regards,

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Hi @henrique.tx ,

the workaround solves my problem. Thank you.

Best regards,
Fabian

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Glad we were able to help out.