https://github.com/user202729/plover-xtest-input

Plover plugin to capture input from the xtest keyboard.
https://github.com/user202729/plover-xtest-input

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Plover plugin to capture input from the xtest keyboard.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/user202729/plover-xtest-input
• Owner: user202729
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-04-04T07:40:49.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-09T16:11:56.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-18T17:46:10.637Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: plover, plover-plugins
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# plover-xtest-input

Capture input from the xtest keyboard.

Only on systems that uses X.

Would be useful to use Plover from other machines from a remote control program

(TeamViewer, for example) if it uses xtest keyboard to send key presses.

Note: must not be used together with the default output method

(which uses xtest to simulate key presses. That will create an infinite loop).

Alternative output methods include [plover-uinput-output](https://github.com/user202729/plover-uinput-output)

(works better, but does not support full Unicode), and [plover-unused-xtest-output](https://github.com/user202729/plover-unused-xtest-output)

(doesn't work as well, especially with keyboard shortcuts)

For testing, `xdotool` can be used.

### Machines

When the plugin is installed, two additional machines are listed,

`XTEST keyboard` and `XTEST serial keyboard`.

* `XTEST keyboard` captures the key up/key down events like from a normal keyboard.

* `XTEST serial keyboard` captures the key presses events from the XTEST keyboard, then

   decode it to a chord using some algorithm (see the source code for details).

   This was implemented to use Plover over TeamViewer/Dotterel. To use it, you should

   download Dotterel (some version that includes [this commit](https://github.com/user202729/dotterel/commit/ba36bd4ffe59626999b98fa1aeaa9e403c80e2ba).

   You may need to build it from source), disable all the dictionaries and only keep the

   `SerialEncoding` dictionary, then use it normally.