PA4 on Virtualbox
Wolfgang Romey
hier at wolfgangromey.de
Sun Mar 3 14:33:48 UTC 2013
Am Sonntag, 3. März 2013, 13:00:14 schrieb active-request at kde.org:
> Yes, the virtual keyboard still misbehaves when PA is run in VirtualBox...
> I followed the advice given by Maurice in another thread and changed the
>
> compositor:
> >>Also I changed the /usr/share/kde4/config/kwinactiverc from
> >>'Backend=OpenGL' to 'Backend=XRender' to make compositing working again.
> >>I used 'vim' from 'konsole'
> >>for editing. Please note, do not click into the black window area
> >>otherwise you will
> >>get the virtual keyboard which will stuck till reboot by broken
> >>compositing.
>
> Of course, you must first install Vi (zypper in vi).
> To avoid issues with the keyboard in Konsole, I tend to switch to the text
> console by using the Meta+F2 key (usually Right Ctrl+F2).
> If this is not on the wiki yet, I'll add the info there.
That worked for me too. Thanx a lot. Now i can use PA4 in virtualisation.
Wolfgang
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