Perspective Workstation Working on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

[Austin_Li]

How naive and verbose I was a year ago and still am… Sorry to anyone who slogged through this.

Better method for a Perspective Kiosk in the post below:

Building a Custom Perspective Kiosk on Linux Hardware

Just thought I would chuck a little guide together to get a working Perspective Kiosk on simple Raspberry Pi 4 Hardware. [hmi] Main Features: Webkit Browser Engine: supported by Ignition as part of Safari compatibility. Full Kiosk Mode: No desktop OS on this system, no other apps, no way to exit. Hardware Acceleration: Panel PC hardware supported by linux is able to be utilised. On Screen Keyboard: Critical missing piece of 99% of similar attempts. Auto opens and closes with focus…

Someone else did what I did before I knew what the world was:

[FEATURE] Perspective Workstation: Show numeric/text input on-screen keyboard for touchscreens

After doing some extensive Perspective Workstation testing here is some discussion. We were surprised that the OSK didn't work in Linux and ended up testing about 14 different distros. I lost track of some of them. Most distros were based on Ubuntu 22.04 due to it being the latest LTS release. Some distros that either Perspective Workstation would not work with the OS OSK or had other general issues with: • Ubuntu 22.04 • Kubuntu 22.04 • Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.2 Victoria • Linux Mint Mate …