"Rfr ltkf?" he hammered out in a terminal, meaning "Как дела?" (How are you?). The letters sat there, ugly and wrong. No magic flip. No jingle sound. Just the cold, unforgiving stare of Latin characters mocking his Slavic fingers.
Alexei was on X11. That was the good news. punto switcher linux
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." "Rfr ltkf
The first week was denial. He searched "punto switcher linux" and found graveyards. Forum threads from 2012 with dead links. A Python script on GitHub that hadn't been updated since the Obama administration. Someone named @xenolt had started a project called "X-Switcher" but abandoned it after 17 commits. The README said: "Works on my machine. Mostly." No jingle sound
He called it puntod — Punto Daemon.
The bad news: "Punto Switcher for Linux doesn't exist because no one wants to write a keyboard sniffer that works across all desktop environments. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXQt—they all handle input differently. It's like asking for a universal TV remote that works on a toaster."