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.