Choice of keyboards?

Hardware Librem 5
5

There seems to be no easy way to copy the whole dpkg output from the terminal window (ctrl-c doesn’t work as a copy command, and there is no menu option for it), so here is the version number: 1.21.0-1pureos1.

I checked, but the landscape bug is still there. The smaler sized landscape keyboard does work better, though.

Hopefully there will be a wider choice of keyboards in the future. The current portrait version is really awkward when you have bigger fingers.

Thanks for responding so quickly, btw!

6

Drat, the bug is still there indeed. Just maybe harder to trigger. Working on it.

7

Using the “Terminal” keyboard, tap the “>_” key, then the “Menu” key. Then you’ll see “Select All” and “Paste”. After you tap “Select All,” you will get “Copy.” After selecting “Copy,” you can paste the text into another application, such as Text Editor.

1 Like
8

Should be fixed now. If you want to help, you can try out this version: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/594

1 Like
9

Ah! The menu-button! Now, there is something of a (semi-)hidden gem. Thanks!

1 Like
10

Sure, I would like to help (that’s the main reason why I post all the comments).
Not sure how to go about things, though…
How do I install the new version?

11

In the “pipeline” box there’s a download drop-down button. Check out the build_deb:arm64:archive, and inside there’s a .deb file to install.

12

Thank you. I’ll check it out.

13

I see four deb-files in there. Which one is the one I need to install?
*Or did I download the wrong artifact?

14

It’s the one with the simplest name: squeekboard_*.deb

15

Ah, that’s the 2.8Mb one, if I am not mistaken.

16

This does not work always. For example in the chats app, I said “Select All”, the background of the message changed to blue (i.e. it was selected), but when I tried to paste it into a vim in the terminal app, nothing was in the buffer.

17

I managed to extract that deb and I shortened the filename to squeekboard_arm64.deb.
Then I did a 'sudo apt install squeekboard_arm64.deb (in the right directory).
The reply to this was: unable to locate package squeekboard_arm64.deb.

I guess I am doing something wrong. Any help would be welcome…

18

it’s the ./ in sudo apt install ./squeekboard_arm64.deb

19

Well it actually resides in my Downloads directory, so I guess that would be ./Downloads/squeek etcetera.

20

I did not do a thorough test, but it appears the keyboard switches smoothly from portrait to landscape without getting stuck on the wrong size (it does a quick shrink after the rotation).

21

Thanks for testing! Yeah, smoothness is not the best at the moment, but I don’t know an easy way to solve it, so I’m going to focus on more important things.

22

I understand completely. Thanks so far.

23

Interesting. What’s special seems to be: “Usage: to apply the symbols located in the corners of each key, slide your finger in the direction of the symbols. For example, the Settings are opened by sliding in the left down corner.” (GitHub - Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers.)
That may make it faster for typing. Anyone testing yet?

4 Likes
24

Is it possible to use this with the kgx app on the L5?

1 Like