resizing virtual keyboard

Does anyone knows how to resize the virtual keyboard (onboard) in Gmoccapy? I have a 16:9 touchscreen screen with the Gmoccapy running in full screen. The virtual keyboard gets unusably large and I can't find a way to make it smaller.

If you are using LinuxCNC 2.9 / Gmoccapy >= 3.4.0 it is right here:


[ linuxcnc.org/docs/2.9/html/gui/gmoccapy.html#_appearance ]

If not, you have to edit the gmoccapy.glade file in /usr/share/gmoccapy

Thank you. I am still on 2.8.4 so no option to change the height in GUI and I am way too inexperienced to edit the glade file. If I knew what exactly to do, I would try but I couldn't find any examples to follow.

btw, the parameter Height, does it also change the width of the keyboard because it is the width that makes the keyboard awkward to use.

The width of the keyboard will expanded to the window width. But a good hint, I will try to add a setting for that to 2.9 as well.

Fir the height you can search the glade file for:
                          <object class="GtkNotebook" id="ntb_info">
and add a line like this below:
                            <property name="height-request">200</property>
Not tested, but it's may worth a try.

 

I just played a bit around and it could then look like this:
Is this like you have it in mind, or do you have a better idea?

pistrix wrote:

I have a 16:9 touchscreen screen with the Gmoccapy running in full screen. The virtual keyboard gets unusably large and I can't find a way to make it smaller.

Is the height ok or should that also be reduced? Even with 2.9 it's only possible to increase the height currently.