Nice - having tried wvkbd I would agree. How did you plan to use gnome’s vkb without gnome?

Software engineer here who works on web services. Most production-critical things in our workplace aren’t managed by GUI’s, or command lines… but by code. There are usually some infrastructure-as-code tools involved, like Terraform, CDK or Pulumi.

GUI’s are often reserved for quick fixes and trying out things on staging servers (derisively called “click-ops”).

It’s a desperate move to prevent a checkmate. If white did anything else (try c5 for example), black will reply with g6#.

If white did Bxf6, and black tries g6, white can escape by doing Kxg5.