eekboard - an easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit

eekboard is a virtual keyboard software package, including a set of tools to implement desktop virtual keyboards.

Building

Dependencies

REQUIRED: GLib2, GTK, PangoCairo, libxklavier, libcroco OPTIONAL: libXtst, at-spi2-core, IBus, Clutter, Clutter-Gtk, Python, Vala, gobject-introspection, libcanberra

Build from git repo

$ git clone git://github.com/ueno/eekboard.git
$ cd eekboard
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-gtk-doc
$ make
$ sudo make install

Build from tarball

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Running

$ eekboard
$ eekboard -f # show/hide automatically based on focus-in/focus-out events

Even though eekboard -f watches a11y events by default, it currently works better with IBus. To use IBus, do:

$ gsettings set org.fedorahosted.eekboard focus-listener 'ibus'