My biggest complaint with #postmarketOS (well, #phosh really) is that while the keyboard is fantastic, I'm a terrible touch screen typist, and I've spent a decade leaning on gesture/swiping to make up for it. Having to actually type every character myself makes me wish I could just type using a number pad like back in the T9 days (but like "ABC" style; I never really vibed with T9). I do think turning off haptic feedback would probably help quite a bit though.

@agx Oh this is dangerous. One could probably experiment endlessly.

Tried osk-stub, and it's a good keyboard out of the box, but couldn't get a decent result out of swipeGuess with it. And it just vomiting every letter I slide over, in the very off chance that one of the suggestions is correct, is far from ideal.

I'm sure there's tweaking to be done there, but came across wvkbl, which allows repeated pipes, and I figured that would be more versatile. It's also just a ridiculously snappy kbd.

@agx Strangely enough, of all the experimenting I've done on this phone, this is the first time I've managed to break things. It's currently booting to a black screen as a result of whatever I just did (I just changed the Exec in sm.puri.OSK0.desktop, lol???). I think there's probably something else going on 🤔

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml