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NAME

BUFFYBOARD - Touch-enabled framebuffer keyboard (not only) for vampire slayers.

SYNOPSIS

buffyboard [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

Buffyboard is a touch-enabled on-screen keyboard running on the Linux framebuffer. It's primarily intended for vampire hunting but you can also use it as a general purpose keyboard.

Buffyboard uses LVGL for input processing and rendering. Key events are forwarded directly to the kernel via a uinput device. Since the latter emulates a hardware keyboard, the terminal keymap must match with buffyboard's layout or else on-screen keys might not produce the correct result.

OPTIONS

Optional

-C, --config-override

Path to a config override file. Can be supplied multiple times. Config files are merged in the following order:
  • /usr/share/buffyboard/buffyboard.conf
  • /usr/share/buffyboard/buffyboard.conf.d/* (alphabetically)
  • /etc/buffyboard.conf
  • /etc/buffyboard.conf.d/* (alphabetically)
  • Override files (in supplied order)
-g, --geometry=NxM[@X,Y]
Force a display size of N horizontal times M vertical pixels, offset horizontally by X pixels and vertically by Y pixels.
-d --dpi=N
Override the display's DPI value.
-r, --rotate=[0-3]
Rotate the UI to the given orientation. The values match the ones provided by the kernel in /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate. 0 - normal orientation (0 degree) 1 - clockwise orientation (90 degrees) 2 - upside down orientation (180 degrees) 3 - counterclockwise orientation (270 degrees)
-h, --help
Print this message and exit.
-v, --verbose
Enable more detailed logging output on STDERR.
-V, --version
Print the unl0kr version and exit.

EXAMPLES

Execute Buffyboard using the default config

buffyboard

SEE ALSO

buffyboard.conf(5)

AUTHORS

Undef <debian@undef.tools>

2025-10-06 buffyboard