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Xwayland is more strict about accepting key maps than Wayland, and it also fails silently. Instead of fixing the other parts of the stack to reshape accepted Wayland key maps into acceptable Xorg key maps, this patch makes Squeekboard serve the maximum compatibility version in the first place. Compatibility not actually guaranteed, that's purely observational. Layouts with many characters (above 240) may lose some characters. This is again due to Xwayland accepting stricter layouts than Wayland.
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.
Build from git repo
$ git clone https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard.git
$ cd squeekboard
$ mkdir ../build
$ meson ../build/
$ cd ../build
$ ninja test
$ ninja install
Running
$ phoc # if no compatible Wayland compositor is running yet
$ cd ../build/
$ src/squeekboard
Developing
See doc/hacking.md for this copy, or the official documentation for the current release.