squeekboard - a Wayland virtual keyboard
Squeekboard is a virtual keyboard supporting Wayland, built primarily for the Librem 5 phone.
Features
Present
- GTK3
- Custom xml-defined keyboards
- DBus interface to show and hide
Temporarily dropped
- A settings interface
TODO
- Use Wayland virtual keyboard protocol
- Use Wayland text input protocol
- Use Wayland input method protocol
- Become a Wayland layer shell
- Remove eekboard-client
- Use sm.puri.OSK0 DBus interface
- Pick up DBus interface files from /usr/share
Building
Dependencies
See .gitlab-ci.yml.
Build from git repo
$ git clone https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/eekboard.git
$ cd eekboard
$ mkdir ../build
$ meson ../build/
$ cd ../build
$ ninja install
Running
$ rootston
$ cd ../build/
$ src/squeekboard
$ busctl call --user org.fedorahosted.Eekboard /org/fedorahosted/Eekboard org.fedorahosted.Eekboard ShowKeyboard
$ busctl call --user org.fedorahosted.Eekboard /org/fedorahosted/Eekboard org.fedorahosted.Eekboard HideKeyboard