fleepit

Text seleciton keyboard layout switcher based on xclip / etc for X11 & wayland

Install

1. Install required packages:

• X11: xclip, xdotool
• Wayland: wl-clipboard

2. install module: pip install fleepit

Limitations

X11

Operation is performed in 3 steps:

• copy - copy selection buffer (primary clipboard)
• paste - write converted selection buffer into secondary (regular) clipboard
• send CTRL+C event

Wayland

Operation is performed in 3 steps with limitations

• copy - reads contents of primary buffer
• paste - write converted selection into secondary (regular) clipboard
• user has to manually press CTRL+C - for the security reasons and/or in order to prevent depending on external daemon services that may expose potential keystroke injection vulnerabilities

Usage

Sample usage for KDE:

• Add custom program shortcut in settings
• Fill something like fleepit --mode x11 --langset qwerty-en-ru
• Set some shortcut, for example CTRL+`

Langset file

Sample langset file:

{
    "langset": [
        "`1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]\\asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,.~!#%&*()_+QWERTYUIOP{}|ASDFGHJKL:\"ZXCVBNM<>",
        "ё1234567890-=йцукенгшщзхъ\\фывапролджэячсмитьбюЁ!№%?*()_+ЙЦУКЕНГШЩЗХЪ/ФЫВАПРОЛДЖЭЯЧСМИТЬБЮ"
    ]
}

Support

Current list of language convertations:

• QWERTY: EN <> RU