eekboard - an easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit -*- outline -*- eekboard is a virtual keyboard software package, including a set of tools to implement desktop virtual keyboards. * How to build ** Dependencies REQUIRED: GLib2, GTK, GConf2, PangoCairo, libxklavier, libcroco OPTIONAL: fakekey, CSPI, Clutter, Clutter-Gtk, Vala, gobject-introspection ** 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 * How to test eekboard currently includes 3 tools to implement your own virtual keyboard. ** eekboard-server eekboard-server is a D-Bus server which is responsible for drawing interactive on-screen keyboards. Since it has a D-Bus service activation entry, you will not need to start it manually, but you can do that with: $ eekboard-server & ** eekboard eekboard is a client of eekboard-server. It listens desktop events (keyboard change, focus in/out, and keystroke) and generates key events when some keys are pressed on the on-screen keyboard. It can be started with: $ eekboard ** eekboard-xml eekboard-xml is a tool to manipulate XML keyboard description used by eekboard-client tool and in the eekboard library. To dump the current system keyboard layout into an XML file: $ eekboard-xml --dump > keyboard.xml You can display the dumped layout with: $ eekboard-xml --load keyboard.xml * Documentation See file:docs/reference/eek/html/index.html