Now that I am working with my keyboard again in 2026, I learn that ZSA has abandoned "wally", and now recommends using their "keymapp" tool (which I also downloaded). Keymapp is closed source and more of a GUI tool -- apparently based on GTK3. Wally is and was open source.
Note that there are/were both "wally" and "wally-cli".
I never had wally-cli apparently. And when the smoke clears from what follows, "wally" announces itself as V2.1.3.
I run Fedora linux. As of 2026 (this writing) I am running Fedora 43.
On March 6, 2026, I used a link they provide to download the latest version of "wally" for linux. I also have a copy of "wally" in /home/tom/bin from October, 2021 when I was last working with my keyboard. I use cmp to compare the two and they are exactly the same.
When I try to launch wally, I get the error:
error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI did install this package using "dnf install libwebkit2gtk, but that gives me the latest version, which is libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0. Apparently "wally" is locked to an older specific version. I use "locate" on my linux machine and discover:
/u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.14.10It has been my practice when I do major system updates (such as total fresh installs or installing a new hard drive) to make a backup of my entire root directory, and that is apparently going to save my bacon here. I do this:
cd /usr/lib64 ls -l libwebkit* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 9 17:00 libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0 -> libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0.19.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89078808 Feb 9 17:00 libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0.19.8 cd /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64 ls -l libwebkit* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 17 2017 libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37 -> libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.14.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41856184 Jan 17 2017 libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.14.10
This is just the first of many libraries and other things that need to be found.
I end up needing this list of libraries:
cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37.14.10 . cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so.18.4.10 . cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libicudata.so.56.1 . cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.56.1 . cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.56.1 . cp /u1/f24_root/usr/lib64/libwebp.so.6.0.2 .Once I track down all these, I hit the next barrier:
Unable to fork a new WebProcess: Failed to execute child process “/usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitNetworkProcess” (No such file or directory). Unable to fork a new WebProcess: Failed to execute child process “/usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess” (No such file or directory).My Fedora 43 system has webkit2gtk-4.1, but the files from Fedora 24 save the day again.
Now I get a warning when I run Wally, but it does start and run:
* (WebKitWebProcess:12399): WARNING **: 12:41:22.637: Error loading the injected bundle (/usr/lib64/webkit2gtk-4.0/injected-bundle/libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so): /usr/lib64/webkit2gtk-4.0/injected-bundle/libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI get rid of the warning by providing this file. Now wally starts up and is looking for the keyboard.
The is a big of a delay, then I get a "peach" colored GUI screen that says "Select firmware" with a box that says "Select File". It tells me to select or drop a hex file.
The bottom of the GUI has a "Restart" link and a think that looks like ">_". This latter is a toggle that goes to a status screen and back out. The status screen shows text:
13:49:55 info Found 1 compatible device(s) 13:49:55 info Probing compatible usb devicesThere seem to be no options whatsoever with Wally. I could look at the source (in golang) to see if there are interesting hidden features.
In particular, I would like to be able to pull a hex file from the keyboard.