Thanks Mimosa,a Friend helped me make a desktop file of xvkbd and I saved this file to /usr/share/applications and this created an entry in xfce menu.Thanks for your very quick reply.I was a bit apprehensive about posting what may seem like a trivial problem to an expert and experienced slackware ...

Dear Mr.Mimosa and laprjns , THANKS for the guidance , following your instructions - - Now I got xvkbd...... virtual keyboad , ofcouse ,
by writing xvkbd in terminal . Now I am looking for ' How to bring xvkbd shortcut on desktop ?'. Please if possible help me here too. Here I too got vkeybd ...

Looks like you may need to install tcl. Unlike slapt-get and Gslapt, the cli and gui respectively for Salix's own repos, Sourcery and slapt-src have only limited dependency checking. If you have trouble, it's also always worth looking up the application you're trying to install at slackbuilds.org ...

I am a new user of Salix, this is my first Slackware based distro hence I am new to the ways and means of Salix. I have a wireless keyboard that might run out of battery at anytime leaving me without keyboard hence here I need virtual on screen keyboard. I searched in gslapt but did not find any on ...