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The viibility manager state is changed from various handlers, which are not guaranteed to be reentrant, most notably the Wayland handler for preedit done. As the state is changed, relevant requests to synchronize user-visible UI are fired from the same handler. In case of imservice_handle_done, GTK widget show function was being called, which triggered another round of handling Wayland, leading to the done handler being called again, and flaking out. To solve this, the phase of issuing commands needs to be separate from adjusting desired state. It seems that the easiest solution is to delay the show() and hide() calls into the next GTK main loop spin. A better solution would probably inject itself directly after the change of desired state, so that *all* the side effects are delayed.
squeekboard - a Wayland virtual keyboard
Squeekboard is a virtual keyboard supporting Wayland, built primarily for the Librem 5 phone.
It squeaks because some Rust got inside.
Features
Present
- GTK3
- Custom yaml-defined keyboards
- DBus interface to show and hide
- Use Wayland input method protocol to show and hide
- Use Wayland virtual keyboard protocol
Temporarily dropped
- A settings interface
TODO
- Use Wayland input method protocol
- Pick up DBus interface files from /usr/share
Building
Dependencies
See .gitlab-ci.yml or run apt-get build-dep .
Build from git repo
$ git clone https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard.git
$ cd squeekboard
$ mkdir _build
$ meson _build/
$ cd _build
$ ninja
To run tests use ninja test. To install squeekboard run ninja install.
Running
$ phoc # if no compatible Wayland compositor is running yet
$ cd ../build/
$ src/squeekboard
Squeekboard honors the gnome "screen-keyboard-enabled" setting. Either enable this through gnome-settings under accessibility or run:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled true
To make the keyboard show you can use either an application that does so automatically, like a text editor or python3 ./tests/entry.py, or you can manually trigger it with:
busctl call --user sm.puri.OSK0 /sm/puri/OSK0 sm.puri.OSK0 SetVisible b true
Developing
See doc/hacking.md for this copy, or the official documentation for the current release.