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[xHK] - An Xlib halfkeyboard implementation
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Getting started
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To tryout xhk, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/kbingham/xhk.git
cd xhk
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake pkg-config
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxi-dev libxtst-dev
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
src/xhk -ddd # -ddd executes with the highest debug level to see it working :)
In early 2014, I had an operation on my right elbow to remove some
bone fragments. These were remaining from an accident in my teenage
years - but had started to cause me some pain and grief. The operation
went well - but has a 6 month full recovery time, and for the first 6
weeks my right arm was pretty much immobile. A serious blocker to my
coding. There are it would seem some solutions to this. A few companies
sell physical keyboards which provide one-handed typing functionality -
but these are expensive. Regardless of the price, I have a keyboard
already attached to my Laptop - and plugging in an external keyboard
isn’t really feasible when sat on the sofa; So I need a better solution
- one which uses my existing keyboard. Now - again - there are a few
software implementations of half-keyboard / mirrors using different
methods, but not one for linux:
Alternative Software Solutions
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- [http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/] has both a Mac and Windows
solution
- <http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/linux-one-handed-keyboards/> does
link to some other linux solutions - but they are either expired or
not appropriate.
- [http://warped.org/] has a version utilising AutoHotkeys for Windows
- [http://blog.xkcd.com/] provides an XKB mapping - but can only use
the caps key as a modifier - and doesn’t meet my needs!
My Solution
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I write C code. I use linux, it seemed only reasonable that as a version didn’t
exist in this space I would create it and open-source it for all to use (and
improve) You can get the sources from [GitHub] and build it yourself by
following the instructions in the Getting Started section above. Once the
application is running - it is processing all your keypresses and decides if it
should mirror them. ‘Backspace’ is mirrored with the ‘Tab’ key, whilst ‘Enter’
is mirrored with ‘Caps-Lock’ If you use this - do drop me a mail to let me know
how you get on, and if you find any problems I’ll look into them to fix them.
Perhaps in the future I’ll pull together a GTK frontend for it, but it depends
on how much use it gets.
[http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/]: http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/download/
"MacOS/Windows software"
[http://warped.org/]: http://warped.org/blog/2008/10/06/the-free-one-handed-keyboard/
"Autokeys implementation"
[http://blog.xkcd.com/]: http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-keyboard-layout-for-the-lazy/
"XKCD MirrorBoard"
[GitHub]: https://github.com/kbingham/xhk "xhk @ GitHub"
This code is released under the GNU GPL v2 or later
www.kieranbingham.co.uk
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