Okay. This is a really tough one so I'm somewhat not expecting an answer.

I need to have a keyboard on the top of the screen since inputing text is near the bottom.



However, if there is any app (I've tried this with Tear, Emelfm2, and SCUMM while it's in full screen mode), Xkbd doesn't apply the -geometry setting.

This causes the keyboard to always hang on the bottom of the screen by default.

If the background app is in window mode, then Xkbd accepts the -geometry setting and the keyboard displays correctly at the top of the screen.

Is there anything at all I can do about this?