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.

It is not in gnome extensions yet!

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

git clone https://github.com/cass00/improved-osk-gnome-ext.git
cd ./improved-osk-gnome-ext
./package-extension.sh
gnome-extensions install improvedosk@stefan_k.shell-extension.zip
gnome-extensions enable improvedosk@stefan_k

After enabling extension, log out and back in to reload Gnome Shell.

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.