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Disabling the Keyboard settings button on the Virtual keyboard - Windows 10 LTSC

I have a touchscreen PC (kiosk) running Windows 10 LTSC. It's gonna run without a physical keyboard in production, so I've set it up to show a virtual keyboard using the following setting: The ...
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Windows 10 virtual keyboard disappears from login screen when password box is visible

I have a Windows 10 laptop with several bad keys, and have to use the On-Screen Keyboard to log in and do other stuff. I keep the virtual keyboard app running at all times. However, the virtual ...
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How do I modify the code for the Cinnamon Applet [email protected]

I am working on my first Linux project as an aspiring developer and would like help accessing the code for the on-screen-keyboard in Cinnamon 5.6.5. I can find the file, but I lack the experience ...
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Virtual input device not working

I've created a virtual keyboard using uinput I can see the input device in /sys/devices/virtual/input as input7 The key presses don't seem to be registered. From what I can tell it's not showing up in ...
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Windows 10 Behaves as if Ctrl Held Down

As of late, my desktop computer has begun behaving ~30-60 minutes after reboots as if I am holding down the control key indefinitely. I have seen this question, but its workarounds and solutions did ...
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Windows Kiosk mode no virtual keyboard after killing explorer.exe

I am having a problem when trying to use a Windows 10 tablet as a Kiosk and after I kill the explorer.exe the keyboard doesn't appear. I am having a major problem here because killing explorer.exe is ...
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Virtual keyboard won't show up after killing explorer.exe

I have an application where I have to restrict users from using Windows functionality, so I do this by killing the explorer.exe process, and launching my application in fullscreen. Everything worked ...
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Windows keys don't work (even on the virtual keyboard)

I have a Windows 10 tablet. My keys won't work on the virtual keyboard. They sometimes work after multiple restarts for a few minutes, but then they stop working. Weird keys like ö work, though: if I ...
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don't see keyboard in tablet mode on surface book

I just bought Surface Book and have the strange problem. When I detach keyboard and use it in tablet mode and try to print something in text field, virtual keyboard appears only in some applications. ...
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Send realtime keystrokes to machine from external source without installing software on that machine? Perhaps a USB dongle that registers as keyboard?

I have a few bare-bones systems running legacy software on creaking hardware. I want to be able to automate a lot of tasks by using auto hotkey scripts for tasks that currently, must be performed ...
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Auto open virtual Keyboard in Linux (Debian) if text to be entered?

Is there any possibility to auto open an on-screen virtual keyboard in Debian to when the focus is set to a text field? The behaviour should be like in iOS or Android app... Thanks!
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Mac OS X Mavericks virtual keyboard

I am looking for a way to get OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks virtual keyboard to display without the number pad. I only want the main keyboard without the numbers on the side of the screen. I have ...
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Use kvkbd without window manager

I am currently developing a kiosk application in QML and I want to use kvkbd virtual keyboard for user input. When used with a window manager (such as icewm), kvkbd works well, but since my ...
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On Screen Keyboard pops up at login Windows 7

A few weeks ago, I had to turn on the on screen keyboard (I did so through the ease of access menu at the login screen) as my keyboard was broken. It has been fixed since then, and when I turned it ...
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How can I keep the Windows 8 virtual keyboard from popping up?

I am the unwilling recipient of Windows 8. Lenovo couldn't fix the new Windows 7 Ultrabook I bought, so they sent me a Yoga laptop, with touch-screen and Windows 8. Once I bought a start menu ...
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