This program emulates a physical keyboard by providing a virtual interface on screen. It currently supports four modes:
- docked, where it will occupy the bottom of the screen;
- popup, likewise as a popup window;
- windowed, where it can be found in the system tray (the default)
- embedded, which outputs its window ID for inclusion within another program.
Additionally, it can be piloted through its companion tool, desktopctl(1).
Keyboard is part of the DeforaOS Project, found at https://www.defora.org/.
The current requirements for compiling Keyboard are as follows:
- Gtk+ 2.4 or later, or Gtk+ 3.0 or later
- DeforaOS libDesktop
- an implementation of
make - gettext (libintl) for translations
With these installed, the following command should be enough to compile Keyboard on most systems:
$ make
The following command will then install Keyboard:
$ make install
To install (or package) Keyboard in a different location:
$ make clean
$ make PREFIX="/another/prefix" install
Keyboard also supports DESTDIR, to be installed in a staging directory; for
instance:
$ make DESTDIR="/staging/directory" PREFIX="/another/prefix" install
On some systems, the Makefiles shipped can be re-generated accordingly thanks to the DeforaOS configure tool.
The compilation process supports a number of options, such as PREFIX and DESTDIR for packaging and portability, or OBJDIR for compilation outside of the source tree.
DeforaOS Keyboard is subject to the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. Please
see the COPYING file for more information.