Diagnostics collects what this session doesn't allow, logs it, and lists
it in the settings panel (with a dot on the gear): KWin not launching
sloposk as its keyboard (detected by WAYLAND_SOCKET, since KWin offers the
input-method global to every client), fake input missing or too old,
org.kde.keyboard unreachable, and the D-Bus control name taken.
Modifier combos go through fake input even in text fields: KWin drops
the input method's modifier mask for most clients, so Ctrl+A typed "a".
The desktop file is generated with an absolute Exec, which KWin needs to
match it: one for the installed binary, one for the build's.
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- deactivate only drops the context it names; one replaced by an activate
is kept until KWin deactivates it
- Moving focus straight from one field to another ends a manual hide
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- HardwareKeys presses a key's unshifted keysym on touch and releases it
on lift, through fake input; held keys repeat and combine as on a
physical keyboard (games, Shift+click)
- Shift/Ctrl/Alt/Super are plain held keys, caps lock is the system's,
dead keys compose in the app
- No long-press, flick, trackpad or rollover in this mode; nothing is
left held when the mode is turned off or touches are cancelled
- Settings switch; default stays the touch (virtual keyboard) mode
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- KWinFakeInput (org_kde_kwin_fake_input v6, offered by KWin to the
input-method process): keysyms with real modifier keys held
- The KWin backend uses the input method in text fields and fake input
everywhere else, so shortcuts, terminals and the desktop get keys
- Text rules (auto-capitalization, double-space) only apply in fields
- Always Show setting keeps the keyboard up without a text field
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- Double-space replaced the space via a Backspace keysym, which clients
apply after the commit: use delete_surrounding_text with the commit
- Tests use a shared FakeEngine that applies ops to a simulated field
- Double-tap shift locks at a sentence start; typing between taps doesn't
- Organization name set: config lives in ~/.config/sloposk/
- Settings (auto-capitalization, double-space period) with a ⚙ panel
- Letter rows come from the compositor's XKB keymap; other letters of the
layout become long-press alternates; globe switches the system layout
over org.kde.keyboard
- One JSON template for non-letter layers; stretch keys even out rows
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- TextContext: field purpose/hints and text before the cursor, reported by
the backend (KWin content_type + surrounding_text)
- TextRules: sentence-start and double-space heuristics, deletion helpers
- KeyRepeater: held backspace repeats, then deletes whole words (Ctrl+BS)
- Controller keeps a best-guess of the text before the cursor so rules work
instantly and in fields that don't report surrounding text
- No auto-capitalization or smart punctuation in password/URL/email fields
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Registers as KWin's virtual keyboard (input-method-unstable-v1), shows a
non-focusable layer-shell overlay, and commits Unicode text. Verified in a
nested headless KWin with the textprobe tool.
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