Punto Switcher Linux -
The letters vanished. In their place, faster than a blink: "Привет."
He typed "Ghbdtn."
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. punto switcher linux
For three weeks, Alexei lived in harmony with the ghost. He wrapped the script in a systemd service. He mapped a hotkey (Super+F12) to toggle it on and off. He added a custom sound: a subtle pop instead of the Windows jingle. He even taught it new words—his own typing quirks, his slang, the way he always typed "Ghj,kt" for "Проблема" (Problem). The letters vanished
He didn't sleep. At 3:47 AM, he opened a new file: punto_rewrite.rs . He built a daemon that sat between his
Then a friend—a gray-bearded Arch user named Misha—told him the truth.
He called it puntod — Punto Daemon.