Alexei opened the script. Line 423: a regex that checked if the active window title contained words like "password," "login," "sudo," "passwd," "ssh," "gpg." If yes, the buffer froze. No corrections. No logging.
Within a month, puntod had 230 stars. A contributor added Wayland support using wlr-virtual-pointer . Another added a flatpak. Someone made a GUI configurator. punto switcher linux
By Sunday night, he was typing "Ghbdtn" into a text file and seeing "Ghbdtn." No magic. Just silence. Alexei opened the script
# This works. No warranty. No support. # If you break your keyboard, keep the pieces. # -- anonymous, 2019-11-03 # PS: To enable sound, uncomment line 612 and install sox. Alexei copied the script. He installed dependencies: python3-xlib , sox , xdotool . He ran it from a terminal. No logging
The first working version was ugly. It sometimes double-fired backspaces. It crashed if you typed too fast. It had no sound. But it worked.
By day ten, Alexei had a text file called autoswitch_attempts.txt with 43 entries. Each one crossed out in red pen (figuratively—he used sed ).
Alexei had been a Windows user for fifteen years. He knew its quirks, its registry hacks, its blue screens of death. But the one thing he loved—genuinely, obsessively loved—was Punto Switcher . That little Yandex utility that watched his typing like a silent guardian. The one that caught his fat-fingered "Ghbdtn" and turned it into "Привет" before he even finished the word. It was muscle memory now. Type, blink, correct. Type, blink, correct.
