OnKey

Lightweight on-screen keyboard in c and gtk2, optimized for portable devices.
WARNING: This app will remap the keycode 249 to emulate unicode characters. Use xmodmap -pke to make sure it's unused.
OnKey
OnKey - look from system theme.

Features

• lightweight
• usable on small screens
• unicode
• relatively highly customizable
• readable source code

Limitations

• doesn't support auto show / hide
• no spell check or word completition

Install

Requires gtk2 dev and xlib.
On Arch:
sudo pacman -S gtk2 xlib11
On Debian, Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev libxtst-dev
To build and install use:
sudo make build clean install
To uninstall:
sudo make uninstall
To open and close the app you could use a small script like 'tkey', see the file.

Options

-e Expand the window width to match the screen width
-k Temporary set the system keyboard layout to 'us' while the app is open
-w The window width in pixels
-h The window height in pixels
-o Vertical offset. Adjust the window position, on the bottom of the screen. Can't be 0.
-t Loads your gtk 2 style file in your home, named '.ok.rc'
-f Shows flat buttons
-p Try to make the app visible on top of fullscreen applications
-? Help
Examples:
onkey -e -h 500 -o 20 -t -f
onkey -w 700 -h 300 -o 1 -k -p

About the keyboard layout

The keyboard layout should be 'us' because it target devices without a keyboard, where 'us' could be a 'standard'. To have the application works correctly you can:
- set the system keyboard layout to 'us' - use the -k option - write a keys table for your layout - use unicode codes for all or part of the keys

Style

You can customize colors and font using a gtk 2 style file in your home folder, see the -t option. Or use system theme.

Known issues

- The shift color and custom style doesn't work when using system theme.
- If you can't see unicode chars make sure you have a complete font, and the system locale set to utf8.

Make your keys table

To make your keys table, modify the variables in the "Variables to customize" section on top of the code. The keyboard UI is a grid so set the number of columns, number of rows(per page) and number of pages setting cn, nr and tp.
Then write the 2d array for all the "pages", called keya, and the array for the upper case letters (1 page) called ukey.
Other variables you may want to change are the default vertical offset, ofs (the height of the title bar to have the window on the bottom), and the height / width buttons ratio, ra. KEYS SYNTAX:
- letter only: A letter, should be in your current system keyboard layout.
codes:
- ^^^s space
- ^^^x backspace
- ^^^e enter
- ^^^p next page
- ^^^P prev page
- ^^^S shift / upcase
- ^^^u up
- ^^^d down
- ^^^l left
- ^^^r right
- ^^^t tab
prefixes:
- ^^S shift+letter, to print up case letters.
- ^^s shift + symbols where the string match keysim
- ^^n symbols where the string match keysim
- U U + 4 digit hexadecimal unicode code

More about xlib conversion: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/x11proto/tree/keysymdef.h