Makes Gnome's OnScreen Keyboard more usable.

Features:

• Includes additional buttons: Arrow keys, Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, Super, F1-12
• Supports key combinations like Ctrl + C, Alt + Tab, Ctrl + Shift + C, etc.
• Configurable keyboard size (landscape/portrait)
• Statusbar indicator to toggle keyboard
• Works in Gnome password modals

Currently, the following layouts have extended keys: CH+FR, CH, DE, HU, ES, FR, IT, RU, UA, US.

This extension is a fork of nick-shmyrev/improved-osk-gnome-ext which is fork of SebastianLuebke/improved-osk-gnome-ext.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6595/enhanced-osk/

Clone the repo, change into its root directory, run package-extension.sh and install the extension:

git clone https://github.com/cass00/enhanced-osk-gnome-ext.git
cd ./enhanced-osk-gnome-ext
./package-extension.sh
gnome-extensions install [email protected]

After installing the extension, log out and back in to reload Gnome Shell. Then enable the extension.

gnome-extensions enable [email protected]

If the layout you're using does not have the extended keys, let me know, and I'll add them. Or, feel free to modify it yourself (see /src/data/osk-layouts dir) and make a PR.

You'll need to follow the manual installation process from README, but before running package-extension.sh you'll have to make changes to your preferred layout (see osk-layouts), then continue with the installation process.

To install the extension on an unsupported Gnome version, you can either add desired version number to metadata.json file and proceed with a manual installation, or disable extension version check and then install from extensions.gnome.org:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

See TEST_CASES for test cases.

Gnome's default on-screen keyboard, on which this extension is based on, uses ibus package, make sure you have it installed.

The keyboard uses unicode characters, try installing ttf-symbola on archlinux (AUR) or ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola on ubuntu/debian

Full-size Onscreen Keyboard than can be dragged around the screen.