Goa touch

Configure your interaction with your computer like never before.

Key features

• Virtual Keys
• Configure once: support Linux, Windows 10 and MacOS
• Infinite layers
• Powerfull gui
  • configure your layout
  • quickview to show/interact with layout
• Community driven

Support variety of devices

The goal is to allow to configure any input device and configure it for all your machines in a consistent maneer.

Virtual Keys

Virtual keys allows you to:

1. provide a more memorable name for you keys

2. Create your own modifiers 99% of remapping/shortcut softwares does not allow you to create your own modifiers. Having your own modifiers allow you to create more shortcuts with fewer keystrokes that are more memorable.

3. OS agnostic Every operating system define the key names differently, the virtual keys provide the ability to specify the name in one oparating system that translate to a virtual key. Therfore, you only have to define your shortuct with one virtual key.

Limitation

Does not support multiples mapping for the same virtual key. If you have bind KEY_1 and KEY_2 to a virtual key (e.g. "@VIRTUAL"), if you press KEY_1 and KEY_2, when you will release KEY_1 or KEY_2, @VIRTUAL will be released.

todo

• think and complete layout

  • rules to create new layers ?

  • how many layers ?

  • which keys are modifiers ?

  • how many modifiers or layout switchers?

  • layer configuration vs modifier configuration

  • rules to always be able to switch between "mouse/keyboard" and only "keyboard"

  • how can I access shortcuts allready made when the hand is on the mouse?

    • a button on the mice set the R-set be le L-set
    • an additionnal modifier make the R-set other keys

• bug: if sequence keydown on device1, keywodwn on device2, keyup on device 1, keyup on device 2 then key1 is repeated indefinitely until a next key is pushed on device1.

• organise code and api

• tests

• close fd and memory

• manage errors

• documentation

  • ref
  • examples

• performances

• publish

  • github
  • find forum/reddit/...

• features

  • launch process as another process

  • service launch

    • launch with systemd
    • retriver the current user and group id
    • retrive the screen

  • context aware

  • security

    • config file should be protected, otherwise any key could be remaped to a command that want to keylog
    • set the user and group that should launch the command

  • compatibility

    • windows
    • mac

  • observe /dev/input

  • ui

    • show current layout
    • show key modifiers

  • save previously working config files

• Make the software being reviewed by a professional

bugs

• leaking when disconnecting a keyboard
• repeating key
• sometime I have to push a key twice