typing into search box is impossible with virtual keyboards such as onboard, florence and cellwriter

[trappedinspacetime]

First of all thank you for developing such a nice and useful application.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04. I cloned and built panther_launcher, it launches well and it's faster to toggle its visibility with

    dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=com.rastersoft.panther /com/rastersoft/panther/remotecontrol  'com.rastersoft.panther.remotecontrol.DoShow' 

I am using my computer by means of virtual keyboard onboard. After I launch panther_launcher, it disappears as soon as I try to type in with a virtual keyboard.

I checked out the source code to disable its hide on losing focus feature but I couldn't get my head around it.
How can I workaround its hiding itself while typing in with virtual keyboards?
Regards.

Kenn

[rastersoft]

Hi:
It's a good question... panther_launcher is designed to disappear when clicking outside its window, so it seems incompatible with a virtual keyboard. It should be possible to disable that, I think...

Anyway, which desktop are you using? I ask this because for gnome shell you have activity_app_launcher, an extension that I created and that is, I think, much better in case you are using that desktop manager.

[trappedinspacetime]

Thank you for responding. I created a custom desktop session called awn which uses Avant Window Navigator dock. My session file /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/awn.session :

 [GNOME Session]
 Name=AWN
 RequiredComponents=unity-settings-daemon;compiz;avant-window-navigator;
 DesktopName=Unity

I think gnome scripts won't run in it.