# \[FEATURE\] Perspective Workstation: Show numeric/text input on-screen keyboard for touchscreens **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80, perspective\ **Created:** [December 22, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-workstation-show-numeric-text-input-on-screen-keyboard-for-touchscreens/41741 "2020-12-22T23:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![Chris\_Bingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Chris\_Bingham](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Chris_Bingham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-workstation-show-numeric-text-input-on-screen-keyboard-for-touchscreens/41741/44 "2023-11-01T13:43:47Z")
> [@jhottell](#): > > Skip Perspective Workstation altogether. Use Ubuntu 22.04, Chrome web browser, and Auto Launch script to start perspective app in the browser full screen. For this to work download chrome with curl or a web browser and install with dpkg. DO NOT bother with Snap web browsers as they have issues with the OSK. Even the Snap Firefox that comes with Ubuntu 22.04 does not work with the OS OSK. Create the launch script in I've had similar findings. Thank you for posting your results! I went through too many distros / attempts before realizing that I should have been recording findings... Alas... The latest project that I've had success with involves exclusive use of snaps: - Ubuntu Server (Minimal) 22.04 - ubuntu-frame (snap) - ubuntu-frame-osk (snap) - firefox (snap, running as systemd service, not snap daemon) Additional information in this post: > [@Building a Perspective Kiosk on Seeed Reterminal-DM (or any RPI-4 based system)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/building-a-perspective-kiosk-on-seeed-reterminal-dm-or-any-rpi-4-based-system/79551/7): > > Agreed. The frequent crashes of mir-kiosk made it a non-starter, even though the ease-of-installation/configuration/use was a huge benefit. Firefox has, so far, proven to be more stable, albeit far more complicated to configure. Recent Ignition versions include updates to Java, and recent Perspective Workstation versions include updates to JxBrowser, of which supports Wayland. When time allows...I intend to dabble... A bash script to migrate from the above mir-kiosk snap to Firefox snap might r… I'd love it if others could try their configurations out and see if issues are solved for them as well, and especially help with my goal to try Perspective Workstation on ubuntu-frame & ubuntu-frame-osk. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-perspective-workstation-show-numeric-text-input-on-screen-keyboard-for-touchscreens/41741)._