How to make another keyboard for illume?

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Thu Dec 4 09:00:01 CET 2008


On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:46:54 +0100 Visti Andresen <talpa at talpa.dk> babbled:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:14:22 +0100
> "Thomas Seiler" <thseiler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mathieu,
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Mathieu Rochette <mathroc at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > As I write some time ago, I'm planning to develop a "dasher-like"
> > > keyboard for illume for a school project. And I'm beginning right
> > > now.
> > 
> > Great to hear that, and good luck.
> 
> --- SNIP ---
> 
> > As an example how all this works together, we have written a simple
> > example keyboard, code is here:
> > http://svn.om.vptt.ch/trunk/test-keyboard/
> > 
> > The tutorial that should explain all this is still unfinished, and
> > will need a bit more time...
> > In the meantime, i hope this email helps...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
> > 
> > PS: You might also want to check out the simple character recognizer:
> > http://svn.om.vptt.ch/trunk/scr/ & http://www.om.vptt.ch/site/?p=382
> > 
> > 
> 
> This is most interesting information, perhaps I should dust off my
> "old" stroke recognition code.
> 
> It kinda stranded on the integration into the seemingly newer ending
> list off "new" window managers (gnome->matchbox->illume) each one
> seeming to have new limitations end requirements.
> But you code snippets looks like a "cut and paste" fix for my old
> matchbox compatible code.

actually the matchbox keyboards (the qwerty and numberpad one) both "just work"
with illume :) you do need to add a .desktop file - but thats it) :)


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