xvkbd
xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X which provides a facility to enter characters onto other clients software by clicking a keyboard displayed on the screen. It also has facility to send characters specified as the command line option to other client.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 05 May 2008 06:55
Changes: A new key-click sound and automatic click feature were implemented.
- 30 Mar 2008 08:29
Changes: The ability to emulate mouse operation (click of mouse buttons and pointer motion) was added. The ability to put some delay when sending a sequence of characters (for example by -text option) was added.
- 10 Sep 2006 04:17
Changes: AltGr should now work on the systems where ISO_Level3_Shift must be used instead of Mode_switch. New options include -no-back-pointer, -no-sync, and -modifiers.
- 04 May 2005 22:43
Changes: Invocation of external commands from xvkbd can now be disabled, which would prevent possible security problem when xvkbd is used in login screens with privileges, for example. Features that make it possible to iconify the xvkbd window even if no window manager is in use were added along with experimental code to keep the xvkbd window always on top of the display.
- 04 May 2004 02:50
Changes: A problem with running older versions of xvkbd that may have disabled the AltGr key on some systems was fixed. Better support for systems that use ISO_Level3_Shift instead of Mode_switch for the AltGr key was implemented, and a Korean keyboard layout was added.
