RedBearAK/Toshy Toshy_v26.05.0

Toshy v26.05.0

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Changes

This release covers roughly March through early May 2026.

New distro support

• Add support for NebiOS (Ubuntu-based, nebios distro ID), with detection of the NebiDE desktop environment via Wayfire config file path, and a NebiDE-specific keymap

New features and improvements

• Default config overlays^ — group-level enable/disable for sets of default-config keymaps, with a new submenu in the tray indicator icon menu and a GTK4 dialog for managing overlay state at runtime
• toshy-libinput command for inspecting libinput devices and managing the Toshy DWT quirk^^, with installer integration that prompts for reboot when the quirk is freshly installed
• toshy-xkb-check command and module — detects XKB option choices that break Toshy's virtual Cmd key^^^, including a check of the KDE Plasma XKB rc file in addition to live session settings
• XKB check integrated into the default config — surfaces a warning at startup when a conflicting XKB option is active so users aren't left wondering why shortcuts don't work
• Pre-check infrastructure for matchProps — frequent context conditions (keyboard-type checks, overlay state) are evaluated once per event into booleans rather than re-evaluated inside every per-keymap closure, reducing redundant work on hot paths
• Flatten functions and remove lambda wrappers in default config (continuation of the performance refactor started in v26.03.0)
• Prevent SIGINT from Cmd+C in terminals (Ptyxis, Konsole) when no text is selected, by routing Cmd+C to a non-SIGINT shortcut in those apps
• Cmd+Q remap for Brave browser — works once the user assigns the shortcut inside Brave's keybind settings (Brave does not bind one by default)
• Dolphin Cmd+W now correctly handles the settings dialog

Fixes

• Detect bad locale settings and sanitize Unicode strings when the locale cannot be repaired, with a diagnostic dialog explaining the situation
• Adapt to Deskflow process consolidation in v1.24+ (single deskflow-core binary replaces the prior deskflow-server/deskflow-client split)
• Improvements for Chimera Linux: BSD sed incompatibility in setup, AppIndicator quirks handler, and prompting the user to run apk update && apk upgrade before install
• Catch fresh install of the libinput DWT quirk so the post-install reboot is not skipped, and start the service with the DWT flag in the correct state
• Better error message when libinput quirks install fails
• Detect Zorin OS 18 appindicator extension UUID
• Adapt to missing systemd1 service name on some configurations
• Prevent a file error when checking desktop environment versions
• Improve the wlroots-dbus service exit log message
• Convert remaining isKBtype conditional callables to booleans (correctness + perf)
• Fix typo in install flag parsing

Installer/setup tweaks

• Prompt for reboot when the libinput quirk was just installed, instead of bypassing the post-install reboot notice
• Add libinput-tools (and related utilities) to more package lists across distros
• Enhance attention-grabbing on bail/error messages during install
• Add toshy-perf-test script for internal config-performance measurement

^ The overlays system lets users selectively disable groups of keymaps from the default config without editing the file. Each overlay is tracked in settings and can be toggled from the "Overlays" submenu in the tray indicator icon's menu, or a GTK4 dialog in the Toshy Preferences app, making it easy to turn off, e.g., browser-specific or terminal-specific keymap blocks when they conflict with the user's workflow.

^^ DWT (Disable While Typing) is a libinput feature that ignores touchpad input while the user is typing. The toshy-libinput command makes it straightforward to install/remove the Toshy DWT quirk, list devices, and inspect libinput state without hand-editing system files under /etc/libinput/.

^^^ XKB options like compose:rctrl redefine Right Ctrl in ways that break Toshy's virtual Cmd key, which is mapped to RIGHT_CTRL. The check identifies these conflicts at startup — including the case on KDE Plasma where the option is set in the rc file but not yet reflected in the live session — and warns the user before they hit confusing shortcut breakage.

Full Changelog: Toshy_v26.03.0...Toshy_v26.05.0