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Wallaby-VK

Wallaby-VK is a virtual on-screen keyboard for Linux systems running Wayland. It floats at the bottom of the screen, never steals focus, and types into whatever window you are working in — useful on touchscreens, on machines without a keyboard attached, for characters your own...

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
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What is Wallaby-VK?

Wallaby-VK is a virtual on-screen keyboard for Linux systems running Wayland. It floats at the bottom of the screen, never steals focus, and types into whatever window you are working in — useful on touchscreens, on machines without a keyboard attached, for characters your own layout does not have, and for anyone who finds typing hard.

Unlike keyboards that send characters to an application, Wallaby-VK sends key events at the kernel level through evdev UInput. Programs see a real keyboard, so shortcuts and modifier combinations work the same way they do on hardware.

Wallaby-VK reads the keyboard layouts already set up on your system, so there is no separate layout to maintain per language. Switching the keyboard also switches the system layout on KDE Plasma 6, which means the keys really do type what they show.

Beyond plain typing it offers 40 text snippets at one click, a clipboard memory holding 10 entries, dictation through your microphone that runs fully offline, and an on-screen key display for screencasts and tutorials. Colors, position and font size are configurable. The interface is available in English and German.

It ships as a single AppImage with a guided setup and a built-in update check. No ads, no accounts, no telemetry. The program code is under the MIT license.