Eekboard working in the Librem5 VM

Instructions:

• Share the project root with the VM when starting it, with the extra qemu options:

path=/path_to_project/eekboard,mount_tag=host0,security_model=passthrough,id=host0

• In the VM, mount it (let's say, /mnt/host-dir):

mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio host0 /mnt/host-dir -oversion=9p2000.L

• The VM needs some extra packages installed:

sudo apt-get install libcroco3-dev

sudo apt-get install libxklavier-dev

sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools

sudo apt-get install gawk

sudo apt-get install gnome-common

sudo apt-get install gobject-introspection

• In the project dir, autogen to some local path (say /home/eekboard):

./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/eekboard --disable-gtk-doc

• After make and sudo make install, copy and recompile the gschema namespace:

cp /mnt/host-dir/data/org.fedorahosted.eekboard.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

/usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

• Then mkdir and copy some other files by hand:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards

sudo mkdir /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards/geometry

sudo mkdir /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards/symbols

sudo mkdir /usr/share/eekboard/themes

sudo cp /mnt/host-dir/data/keyboards/keyboards.xml /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards

sudo cp /mnt/host-dir/data/keyboards/geometry/compact.xml /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards/geometry

sudo cp /mnt/host-dir/data/keyboards/symbols/* /usr/share/eekboard/keyboards/symbols

sudo cp /mnt/host-dir/data/themes/default.css /usr/share/eekboard/themes

• Then inside /home/eekboard/bin, first run the server with 'eekboard-server', then in another terminal window run 'eekboard'

The keyboard should appear on screen.

changed the description

I think there's extra whitespace here.

It seems that the indentation here was meant to line up the parameters (whatever they are called), it's visible with tab size set to 8.

It seems there's not just licensing reverted in this commit.

When it comes to licensing changes, these should appear nowhere in the history. The goal is to not have them in the first place, rather than revert them. Try git rebase -i.

These are whitespace changes, they should be in a separate commit.

Are the changes related to xklavier needed in order to get the keyboard to work? They will need to come back, so removing them seems a little overkill.

Apart from the changes with installation directories, did any code change?

added needswork label

Squeekboard is in a good enough shape to run on the VM. Closing.

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