#OSK

Guido Güntheragx@ruhr.social
2025-06-16

Just in case: If you (unlike me) are using #chromium or #electron apps in #phosh running them like:

```
chromium --gtk-version=4 --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
```

makes the #OSK unfold automatically now that chromium support text-input-v3.

(Thanks Hemish for the tip).

Guido Güntheragx@ruhr.social
2025-05-26

In order for distros to be able to prepare for the rename I've tagged a 0.48~alpha1 of stevia: sources.phosh.mobi/releases/ph

@newbyte

#phosh #osk #LinuxMobile

2025-05-10

Blog post: A short overview how text auto correction and completion via the on screen keyboard can be configured in #Phosh and what the different options do: phosh.mobi/posts/osk-completio

#LinuxMobile #osk #presage #hunspell #fzf #varnam #gtk

2024-11-22

3. The coolest part? Anyone can use it & spare weeks of trial and error.

I've packaged it, created an in-depth guide, as well as a 2h-long video course.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just copy-paste it, and focus on writing!

developassion.gumroad.com/l/ob

#pkm #osk

...and it broke.

Well, actually #fluffychat itself probably did nothing but since yesterday the backspace button on the - i assume newly updated - #osk on #phosh does not seem to register in fluffychat anymore.

while that is a little frustrating, the text highlighting function has gotten an update as well and not i can easily mark and just replace text. its not perfect but it is bearable.

nobody said #dogfooding #postmarketos would be easy. :)

#oneplus6

2024-10-19

on-screen keyboard testing

(on bullseye, X.org/evdev, xkb layout) #OSK

caribou

Not tested, the screenshot shows it’s not what I was looking for. Also, old, mentions GOK but that doesn’t even exist any more?

What, though, is “scanning mode”? That also shows up in at least one more keyboard below…

maliit-keyboard

Awful for most users, see above in the thread.

matchbox-keyboard

Not tested, also special-layout.

onboard

Very tiny writing. Might recognise the layout, but doesn’t insert anything for me (possibly incompatible with evilwm or other focus-follows-mouse models).

osk-sdl

Description: Lightweight On-Screen-Keyboard based on SDL2

It can only run during initramfs to unlock LUKS or something. What a scam.

qml-module-qtquick-virtualkeyboard, qt6-virtualkeyboard, qtvirtualkeyboard5

They all install only DLLs. I have no idea how to even use them. What a joke.

squeekboard

Not tested, it’s for Wayland. Apparently very customisable, but won’t pick up the xkb layout.

xvkbd

Enters chars but is not compatible with ISO_Level3_Shift-based layouts; rather it would want Mode_switch-based ones, so it might do well with the xmodmap layout.

2024-10-18

Good news, things work as desired under KDE-Wayland and KDE-Xorg (except PointerKeys don’t seem to work under Wayland 😾).

Bad news, KDE-Xorg has no onscreen keyboard, not even the setting for it, while KDE-Wayland has maliit (“the only one that works on #Wayland” according to The Internet) which is also one of those smartphone-like things; someone reports it cannot even switch from QWERTY to AZERTY (which, while laudable, is obviously a problem). Didn’t #KDE use to have its own #OSK?

Is there any onscreen keyboard around that actually uses the configured layout, opposed to rendering some kind of limited keyboardish thing itself?

And altogether, I forgot to note that this layout works very well with my XFree86® compose configuration (to install, cpp -traditional -undef -P -DXCOMM='#' <downloaded-file-name >~/.XCompose… at least for X11, though Gtk+ seems to parse them as well, judging from the couple of “my #Compose implementation is not good enough for this entry” messages it shows when first encountering it). It’s got bugfixes vs. Xorg’s.

Oh, and someone mentioned that some IMEs disable… or ignore?… #xkb, so they might need to be disabled. If you find one, do tell; the Debian 12 live CD has ibus enabled which doesn’t.

2024-08-27

#Wayland #inputmethod team GO!

I assembled a team to continue work I started for #mobilelinux with #phosh , #squeekboard and #librem5 .

We're going to finish the mobile side of screen-based input, and also try to properly bring traditional input methods (like for Chinese) to Wayland.

Thanks @nlnet for providing the motivation.

Watch this account!

#cjk #touchscreen #osk

2024-03-30

Brighton based new boy Osk and his accomplice Zanotti (founder of SoundOfTheSouthWest) bring us the dope track Smoke. Percussive bells, slapping drums and sick lyrics, a banger.

#Jasper #Osk #Smoke #SoundOfTheSouthWest #Ukhhdotcom #Zanotti

britishhiphop.co.uk/downloads/

2024-03-13

When doing the #deskhop to share keyboard/mouse between my #Librem5 and my notebook on the Librem5 still the on-screen keyboard (#osk) keeps popping up and takes away part of the small screen.

This can be disabled through gsettings but doing so each time when I place the phone beside my notebook is tiresome.

So I recovered some old proof of concept I had made, tested it and packaged it:

switch-keyboard installs an #udev rule that triggers when an external keyboard is connected and disables the osk. On disconnect it re-enables the osk and there is an entry for the menu included to just toggle the keyboard on and off just in case you're left without #osk after disconnecting an external keyboard.

2024-02-05

#Lomiri in #Debian testing/unstable is about to be fully usable on #Linux #tablets. Only corner stone missing (except from a lot of fine-tuning and a greater pool of installable apps) is the on-screen keyboard (#OSK). We use #Maliit keyboard for this, but the keyboard stubbornly refuses to appear on screen. If there is some dev out there who would like to help with that (and has tinkered with Maliit before in other environments), please ping (sunweaver@debian.org). Thanks!

Daniele Verducci 🧉penguin86@social.ichibi.eu
2023-11-02
Upgraded to #gnome 45 on my #arch linux #tablet an half of the #extensions stopped working... I haven't used Gnome in years (since they moved to #gtk 3), so I'm wondering if I should expect all the extensions to break at every upgrade 🤨️
I can live without #gsconnect for a while, but the default #osk ( #onScreenKeyboard ) is unuseable without "Improved OSK" extension... that should be included by default...
SciPost Physicsphysics@scipost.social
2023-10-10

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Flux vacua and modularity for Z2
symmetric Calabi-Yau manifolds

Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Pyry Kuusela, Joseph McGovern
SciPost Phys. 15, 146 (2023)
scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.1

#UniversityofOxford
#JohannesGutenbergUniversityofMainz
#EPSRC
#Osk._Huttusen_säätiö

SciPost Physicsphysics@scipost.social
2023-10-06

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Mirror symmetry for five-parameter Hulek-Verrill manifolds

Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Pyry Kuusela, Joseph McGovern
SciPost Phys. 15, 144 (2023)
scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.1

#UniversityofOxford
#EPSRC
#INI
#Osk._Huttusen_säätiö

Jan "The King" Applejanapple
2023-08-18

Finished making my On-Screen-Keyboard for shortcuts and hot keys for SAI because I will put a ridiculous amount of effort to procrastinate. I hate needing to reach out across the screen(s) and dig behind menus for my tools. Don’t break my flow, man.

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2023-04-11

Touchscreen + Linux = 💩
#gnome #linux #foss #osk #wayland

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