Wallaby-VK is a virtual on-screen keyboard for Linux systems with Wayland support.
It appears as a floating keyboard at the bottom of the screen without taking focus from the active application.
Besides text entry, the application offers reusable text snippets, offline speech recognition, clipboard history and an optional input display for screencasts and tutorials. Wallaby-VK is written as a single Python file and distributed as an AppImage.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a full German QWERTZ layout with ä, ö, ü and ß.
- Supports acute dead-key combinations such as ´ + e to produce é.
- Offers 40 customizable text snippets with date and time variables.
- Provides local offline speech recognition using faster-whisper.
- Maintains a 10-entry multi-copy buffer with an event-based clipboard watcher.
- Supports one-shot and locked states for Shift, Ctrl, Alt and AltGr.
- Implements Meta as a quasi-modifier for KDE Plasma shortcuts.
- Includes controls for changing and muting the system volume.
- Offers an optional KeyCast display for showing keystrokes, modifier combinations, mouse buttons and scroll-wheel events.
- Is suitable for producing screencasts, demonstrations and tutorials.
- Runs from an x86-64 AppImage with guided desktop integration and an update mechanism.
- Has been tested on Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and TUXEDO OS.
Website: bekudio.de/wallaby-vk.html
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Developer: Bernd Kunath
License: MIT License
Wallaby-VK is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
This entry was written with the assistance of Bernd Kunath who completed the software form.
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