x11/squeekboard 1.43.1_4 DragonFly

On-screen keyboard input method for Wayland

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv3
Categories: wayland, x11
Package size: 1556.6 KiB, 8126.7 KiB installed

Description

Squeekboard is a keyboard-shaped input method supporting Wayland, built primarily for the Librem 5 phone.

It squeaks because some Rust got inside.

Features:

GTK3
Custom keyboard layouts defined in yaml
Input purpose dependent keyboard layouts
DBus interface to show and hide
Use Wayland input method protocol to submit text
Use Wayland virtual keyboard protocol

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

x11/squeekboard

1.43.1_4

FreeBSD

x11/squeekboard

1.43.1_18

HardenedBSD

x11/squeekboard

1.43.1_17

GhostBSD

x11/squeekboard

1.43.1_17

Install

Binary package:

pkg install squeekboard

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/squeekboard && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 13

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

To unhide the keyboard after launch run

$ gsettings set \
    org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications \
    screen-keyboard-enabled \
    true
$ gdbus call --session \
    --dest=sm.puri.OSK0 \
    --object-path=/sm/puri/OSK0 \
    --method=sm.puri.OSK0.SetVisible \
    true