I haven’t done extensive testing, but I think my recent updates should work well to selectively add/remove files and css code in the way that you want.
Please let me know if I missed something.
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I just realized something about my repo and a possible mistake I made:
After I forked your repo, I did not create a new branch; instead, I added and modified files directly in my repo’s main branch. I did the same for the mobile-config-firefox repo. I don’t now if that causes any problems, but I really hope not.
Do you know if there is a correct way for me to pull the updates from your Squeekboard-Layouts into mine?
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It doesn’t really hurt anything to work in your main branch. It just makes it hard to work on multiple things.
To keep in sync with a repository you’ve forked, use git remote to set up tracking.
In your repository:
‘git remote add upstream [forked repository URL]’
You can replace ‘upstream’ with any name you prefer. Then you can:
‘git fetch upstream’
‘git merge upstream/main’
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I also have to learn more about Git. But I also think that makes no problem for this little project. I just have to figure out how to merge your request.
@Emma:
I found one bugs and I guess it is the last one. It depends on the issue I wrote above. Once glassy-styles.css contains something, the @import-rules for osk-directory wont be added on install custom color. So let’s say from my previous post the file exists like example 2, but will not become example 3 as it should be. That results in a colorless keyboard.
It took me some time to find this, also because other “bugs” depending on my own phone and never will happen to other people. 
uninstall script is untested yet. There are maybe also some issues, but I want to take more time to test it.
I hope I do not annoy you with my QA-skills. But let me say that I am really thankfully for your work! I hope some people will like and use it (and maybe push back some other languages).
Edit:
If everything works fine, the colors of default and custom color should look like this (150% variant):
If it looks something different, please let me know.
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Thank you very much for this!
I have now merged the upstream updates into the main branch of my repo.
This issue has now been fixed. It was a simple typo; I had used the wrong variable name in that small section of code.
I’m glad you like it, and I’m not annoyed. You have been very helpful in finding these bugs so that I can fix them. I may add a US English keyboard at some point next year; I would need to make new modified versions of the one I’m currently using so that it supports different display scales like yours.
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Just share your layout to me. I will create the other scales in no time and want to check it anyway to provide the same quality over all layouts (only technical stuff, not about the keybindings) on this repository.
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I’m currently using a slightly modified version of the layouts designed by @SteveC. I shared my modified version on post 70 of my Mobile-Friendly-Firefox thread.
The only modifications that I applied:
- switch the slash (
/) and question mark (?) keys so that the slash is on the default view in the portrait mode layout - move the numbers section from the right side to the left side in the landscape layout
Since the code was originally posted here on the forums with no copyright information, I don’t know what to do. Are my minor modifications enough to justify putting my own copyright info in these files and adding them to my repo? @SteveC, would that be acceptable to you, and would you like to be credited? As with the rest of the code in my Squeekboard-Layouts repo (and @Ick’s repo), I would use the SPDX-License-Identifier GPL-3.0-or-later.
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I see. I mainly want to support my own design in this repository. I mean, I have no problem to add non supported designs in a separate folder, but than proper color support etc is not given.
However, this could be translated into my design.
There would be little changes as you can see, but this shouldn’t be a problem at all. Would you like to test such? And if so, 200% resolution or which version do you want to use? Edit: Forgot to translate modifier for screenshot. 
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Glad to hear my time on the Librem5 was worth something to someone. (I never could get the damned $2000 boat anchor to make a phone call–and tech support never responded to the last log file I sent them, so it’s collecting dust now. Someone made a pile of money off of me…)
Feel free to modify the keyboard. You can credit me with a “based on a design by SteveC”.
I actually very deliberately put the question mark where I did. I never use my current phone’s keyboard for anything other than text messages, and the / is nearly useless for that, but the ? is very useful. Obviously most people differ on that or the current designers wouldn’t bury the question mark.
(I know the ? is a “capital” symbol on a real keyboard, but on a real keyboard that doesn’t make it any slower to access…on a rinkydink phone keyboard it’s two operations that must be done in sequence rather than simultaneously–or it’s a hold-down, which I hate for common symbols, like (just for instance) periods, apostrophes, and commas. If I had a nickel for every time I sent “isnxt” instead of “isn’t” or something similar, I could fill the $2000 hole the librem 5 paperweight left in my finances.)
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I understand, and that makes perfect sense.
I can certainly test new layouts; if you add them to your repo, I can pull the updates into mine and modify the install script to incorporate any new layouts.
I am currently testing that new phosh-osk-stub keyboard and trying to learn how to modify it.
Thank you very much for the keyboard layout and your permission to modify and share it! It has been my favorite layout for the Librem 5 and has allowed me to edit css code much easier than the default keyboard.
I’m sorry that you had such a bad experience with your Librem 5 and with Purism support.
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I created a new branch on my fork and updated the install.sh script for your new release. I also linked Custom-Color/Screenshots/ScreenshotsOSK.png on the README.md so that there is a nice embedded image showcasing your work, and I have created a pull request.
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I already saw it, thanks again!
You were a way faster than expected. I am not done with everything yet (or better said with things like readme and picture upload). It was just a bit too late yesterday to finish this job. I will do so later.
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Yeah, I happened to notice your post and checked it out. I had already written most of the code a while ago, using arrays and variables to apply the code. So I just needed to add the new variables and array items and then make the user prompt (which I do by just copying and editing one of the other user prompt sections).
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Another shout out to @SteveC and your extended keyboard! Copy-pasting with context menus is just too hard on this phone, with the keyboard jumping on and off, the menu appearing below the keyboard, blinking or not appearing at all, selection disappearing when I try to copy it and so on. SO I’m happy to do ctrl-c ctrl-v without having to switch to the “Terminal” layout every time.
Here I adapted it to the Swiss-French layout and added some Sanskrit letters as I happen to learn Sanskrit (I used to switch between layouts but it gets tiring after a while to switch back and forth when I’m writing French text with Sanskrit words in the middle)
I would gladly share the yaml file in case there are other Librem5 users in Switzerland who need to type both French and Sanskrit. But somehow I expect I’m the only one intersecting all those circles
EDIT: actually I realise it would almost work fine for Swiss-German as well, there’s only the ß (I had to copy-paste that from Wikipedia) that’s missing…
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Thank you for the kudos. I’m glad people feel free to swap out the “special” characters on that keyboard. I’d love to see a future development where people can customize such things on a keyboard without having to update a yaml file.
I’ll update everyone who cares about my keyboard:
The directions I followed basically were to copy one’s custom keyboard to the terminal keyboard, once you were sure it worked. You end up then with identical terminal and “regular” keyboards.
I may just create a special terminal version that swaps the ? and / back (I find the ? more useful for texting, and the / more useful for typing in a terminal; my design reflects the fact that on most phones I text far more than I program) like someone upthread suggested…and also most critically, put a tab key on the “main” keyboard since I use tab completion a LOT. In essence I didn’t anticipate having a use for a terminal mode–which based on my past experience with Android Surveillance phones, makes some sense.
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Thanks to @lwriemen my Squeekboard-Layout got an US-layout update. If someone wants to try out, let me know your feedback. Click on my “avatar” to find the link.
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Hey, nice update. I’ve recreated a wip branch and fixed some issues in the install.sh script, but I’m unsure about one thing.
Fixed issues in my wip branch:
- fixed: changed
$KEYBOARDSto$TERMINALfor section to copy default-color yaml file into terminal directory - fixed: added
$LANGvariable assignments to user language selection section
In this commit, the user language selection section was added, including a $LANGUAGE variable assignment for each language option but no $LANG variable assignment.
In this commit, the old and unnecessary code was deleted (as the header had instructed), but $LANG variable assignments were still not added.
Basically, the code had previously set both variables explicitly, but now only one variable is set according to the user selection, with the other variable being unset/undefined.
Because the $LANG variable is unset/undefined, I think that this commit was unnecessary and should probably be reverted when my above fixes are applied, though I have not tested this.
In the install.sh script, the purpose of the $LANGUAGE variable is to inform the user of the language that was selected, while the purpose of the $LANG variable is for the behind-the-scenes configuration (adding the selected keyboard to the evdev.xml file).
@lwriemen, could you test this? Also, thanks for your contribution to @Ick’s project.
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For those who’re using Squeekboard backports, I’m already working on version 1.1 of my layouts and (re)named it “Squick”. Currently it adds a button for shift modifier on all layouts. On issues you can follow what left to the final release version (or write your wishes).
Edit:
The cool new thing on Squeekboard: the height can be adjusted on mobile settings. You can choose what ever height you love. This is also interesting for those who want to create their own keyboard.
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I added completely new layouts. If you want them, add those manually (copy including directory) for now. The 1.1 release comes when scripts are updated.
Numbers:
It only works on newer systems.
Edit: With Tab-button you can move to the next entry-box and don’t need to touch to the clock-UI etc. With Shift-modifier plus arrows you can select. I also added a menu button to copy or paste things. Other buttons are taken from the original layout and I’m not sure where they can be usefully. But better this way then missing when needed somewhere.
Emojis:
Those can also be used on Byzantium, but some emojis are not supported and look weird (you can ignore that). The button with category-label is also a space-button. Oh and if you want to have other favorites: open the file and just replace those smileys on base (you will see it). This way you always have your most needed smileys on page one.
My next update will be about the release.
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