Alexei tried it. It crashed when he opened Firefox.
Alexei pushed puntod to GitHub under the MIT license. He wrote a README, a Makefile, and a small script to install it on Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch. He added a section: "Why this exists." punto switcher linux
For three weeks, Alexei became a hermit. He learned about event devices, uinput, virtual keyboards. He built a daemon that sat between his physical keyboard and the X server. Every key press passed through his filter. If the last 10 keystrokes matched a Russian word in his dictionary, he would simulate backspaces and retype the corrected version. Alexei tried it
Alexei smiled. He typed a reply: "Ghbdtn! Спасибо." He wrote a README, a Makefile, and a
The first working version was ugly. It sometimes double-fired backspaces. It crashed if you typed too fast. It had no sound. But it worked.
# This works. No warranty. No support. # If you break your keyboard, keep the pieces. # -- anonymous, 2019-11-03 # PS: To enable sound, uncomment line 612 and install sox. Alexei copied the script. He installed dependencies: python3-xlib , sox , xdotool . He ran it from a terminal.
"That's not a script," Misha said slowly. "That's a companion."