Hi All,
Changed to the "small" version of the word list by downloading it from the ubuntu webpage I mentioned a couple of posts back. Downloaded and unpacked the .deb; moved dict folder to usr/share and renamed the within text file "words" --without the quotes, after deleting the older larger word file.
Word completion with the smaller list seems to work better than I expected. Once turned on by clicking xvkbd on the keyboard lower left corner and selecting word completion, a box appears on the screen. As you type
using xvkbd's keyboard words beginning with the letters type appear in the box.
All that's necessary to complete the word being typed is to click the desired word in the box. Of course, this means the mouse cursor has to leave the keyboard, but the target application remains in xvkbd's focus and doesn't have to be re-established. I'm not certain that it is less productive than LibreOffice's automatic word completion which seems to insist on the similar word I first typed when I actually want to use a different word based on the same root. If the word you want isn't shown, but a similar word is, you can click on the similar word and then backspace/delete as necessary. Backspacing, however, confuses xvkbd. When you begin typing letters again "Word completion" sees it as a new word and will continue to do so until you click the space bar.
But there's another problem to consider. The word completion module uses display space. It getting very crowed. I wonder how xvkbd handles multiple virtual desktops, something I've always done without.
Before experimenting with xvkbd's word completion I looked to see if Abiword might have a plugin giving it LibreOffice's word-completion functionality. It didn't. But that lead me to test musher0's abiword 2.9.2,
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 142#648142. It wouldn't run in wary --missing libs-- but probably will in precise derivatives. So I next tried technosaurus's 2.8.2,
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 817#392817, which had "all plugins." In wary, it required ttuuxxx's wv pet.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 086#393086. Among the tools included, and callable via the keyboard, are google and wikpedia modules. After a typed word is selected (Shift-direction key) Alt-t (=Menu>Tools) directional key to selection on menu, Enter to select it, the default browser will open and do either a google or wikipedia search of the selected word.
mikesLr
p.s. Just re-read greengeek's post above. Moving "controls" to the top of the display would work well for everyone who wasn't habituated to expect the keyboard to be below the target program, which means almost everyone.