squeekboard-sway

Squeekboard is a virtual keyboard supporting Wayland, built primarily for the Librem 5 phone.

It squeaks because some Rust got inside.

Squeekboard-Sway is a small set of experimental modifications to Squeekboard. The modifications are intended to facilitate using the Sway window manager with an on-screen keyboard.

It adds the following features compared to upstream:

• The height of the on-screen keyboard can be forced by setting the SQUEEKBOARD_HEIGHT environment variable to the desired keyboard height (in pixels)
• Shift and Mod4 (AKA super/logo/meta/windows key) are now valid modifier keys
• Modifier keys are cleared after performing a modifier key combo (such as Mod4+Shift+q)
• Swedish keyboard layout with Shift and Mod4 modifiers

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.