Wvkbd

Jul 20, 2023

On-screen keyboard for wlroots

wvkbd project aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C. This will only be a keyboard, not a feedback buzzer, led blinker, or anything that requires more than what’s needed to input text quickly. The end product should be a static codebase that can be patched to add new features.

Features

  • Typing, modifier locking, layout switching
  • Positive visual feedback on key presses
  • Custom layouts and underlying keymaps
  • On-the-fly layout and keymap switching
  • Custom color schemes
  • Proper font drawing
  • Intuitive layouts
  • International layouts cyrillic, arabic
  • Support for ‘Copy’ keys which are not on the keymap
  • Emoji support
  • Compose key for character variants e.g. diacritics
  • Show/hide keyboard on signals SIGUSR1 = hide, SIGUSR2 = show
  • Automatic portrait/landscape detection and subsequent layout switching


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