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.