Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux?

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 9:40:50 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
> > $ setxkbmap -query        # examine current settings
> 
> Alas, that does not appear to work in Debian squeeze:
> 
> steve at runes:~$ setxkbmap -query
> Error!   Option "-query" not recognized
> 
> Or Centos.
> 
> What are you using?

$ dpkg -S setxkbmap
x11-xkb-utils: /usr/bin/setxkbmap
[and some doc stuff]

So...

$ aptitude show x11-xkb-utils|grep Version
Version: 7.7+1

[which is probably what you need to know]

To answer more literally:
Just now this is a debian testing running xfce
I believe this works also on ubuntu 14.10