Top 6 xkb Open-Source Projects

klfc

13 202 0.0 Haskell

Keyboard Layout Files Creator

Project mention: FEATURE REQUEST to keyboard-layout-editor.com: klc file support | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 2023-07-09

I use https://github.com/39aldo39/klfc in my scripts to generate the OS-specific files for ANSI layouts. I convert the KLA json to their format. There may be bugs in that process. Checking it is on to-do list.

BigBagKbdTrixXKB

3 184 5.7 Shell

"DreymaR's Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks" for *nix with XKB
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
threelayout

1 110 2.2 AutoHotkey

A better modifier based keyboard layout
interception-vimproved

1 40 4.0 C++

Unofficial plugin for Interception Tools combining features of caps2esc and space cadet for making held space work as a special fn key. Now configurable!
wordstar-keys

2 35 4.1 AutoHotkey

Implement wordstar cursor control keys in linux using xkb

Project mention: Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-11

It remaps it to Ctrl-G, which won't work in every program, but is a fairly standard shortcut in text editors.
xkb: https://github.com/berwynhoyt/wordstar-keys/blob/main/xkb/ws...
xremap: https://github.com/berwynhoyt/wordstar-keys/blob/main/xremap...

xkb-for-macos

1 18 10.0 Python

PC keyboard layouts for MacOS straight from X11 xkb

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