Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On 24 August 2015 at 18:57, Bill Spitzak wrote: > There is considerable dislike for this idea from the Wayland developers, > though I am stumped why. Not really sure how you're stumped, given that I've reiterated the reason several times. ___ wayland-de

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-24 Thread Bill Spitzak
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Kieran Bingham wrote: > > > This is a very common request, usually for the opposite reason: to make a > > modifier also produce a keysym. In particular it would allow Ctrl or > AltGr > > to act as a compose prefix, something a lot of plugins for Windows does, > >

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-23 Thread Kieran Bingham
Hi Bill On 19 August 2015 at 19:03, Bill Spitzak wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Peter Hutterer > wrote: >> >> >> > My difficulties with xkb are in creating a mapping where by the space >> > bar >> > acts as both a modifier *and* a space bar. >> >> right. I don't think xkb will let yo

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-23 Thread Kieran Bingham
On 19 August 2015 at 07:20, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:47:43PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> Sorry for the late reply here, I've moved back from South America to England >> and had to look in to some of my assumptions! >> >> On 27 July 2015 at 06:07, Peter

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-19 Thread Bill Spitzak
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > My difficulties with xkb are in creating a mapping where by the space bar > > acts as both a modifier *and* a space bar. > > right. I don't think xkb will let you do this, at least not as a either/or > case depending on e.g. how long y

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-18 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:47:43PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Sorry for the late reply here, I've moved back from South America to England > and had to look in to some of my assumptions! > > On 27 July 2015 at 06:07, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > Hi Kieran, > > > > On Fri, Jul

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-08-18 Thread Kieran Bingham
Hi Peter, Sorry for the late reply here, I've moved back from South America to England and had to look in to some of my assumptions! On 27 July 2015 at 06:07, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > Hi Kieran, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:28:04PM -0500, Kieran Bingham wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I've been w

Re: Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-07-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
Hi Kieran, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:28:04PM -0500, Kieran Bingham wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've been working on a personal project to implement one-handed touch > typing as an accessibility feature. > > There are software solutions for this available for Win/MacOS > http://www.onehandkeyboard.org

Libinput: Halfkey/Mirrorboard implementation

2015-07-24 Thread Kieran Bingham
Hi Guys, I've been working on a personal project to implement one-handed touch typing as an accessibility feature. There are software solutions for this available for Win/MacOS http://www.onehandkeyboard.org, and an (expensive) hardware solution available. There is also a solution which uses xkb