OKBoard

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Submitted by eber42 on Sun, 2025/02/02 - 19:16
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OKBoard (a.k.a. Magic Keyboard) is a gesture based keyboard that allow single stroke typing. Usage is explained in this video. English, French and Dutch are supported without the need for additional packages, other language resources are available in separate packages, e.g. for Swedish (okb-lang-sv). It currently works on Jolla phone, Xperia X / XA2 / 10 / 10 plus. Larger phones (such as XA2 plus/ultra & Fxtec Pro1) may be supported in a later release.

Do not use other third party keyboards at the same time (unless they are just simple layouts for new languages).

Source code: http://git.tuxfamily.org/okboard/okb-engine.git/ and http://git.tuxfamily.org/okboard/okb-keyboard.git/. Instructions for adding new languages are included in README.md files (latin alphabet only at the moment).

If you get an error message about missing dependencies (dbus-python, patch ...) when installing, just run "pkcon refresh" as root and try again. Also some issues may be solved by uninstalling and reinstalling.

OKBoard tends to break for each new Sailfish release, so if possible, wait for other users reports before upgrading to a new OS version.

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File okboard-full-0.6.34-1.aarch64.rpm10.51 MB29/09/2021 - 20:00
File okboard-full-0.6.34-1.armv7hl.rpm10.5 MB29/09/2021 - 20:00
File okboard-full-0.6.35-1.armv7hl.rpm10.5 MB18/09/2022 - 14:33
File okboard-full-0.6.35-1.aarch64.rpm10.51 MB18/09/2022 - 14:33
File okboard-full-0.6.37-1.aarch64.rpm10.51 MB05/02/2023 - 14:36
File okboard-full-0.6.37-1.armv7hl.rpm10.5 MB05/02/2023 - 14:36
File okboard-full-0.6.38-1.armv7hl.rpm10.5 MB02/02/2025 - 19:16
File okboard-full-0.6.38-1.aarch64.rpm10.51 MB02/02/2025 - 19:16
Changelog: 

0.6.38 : Support for SFOS 5 + minor bugfix

0.6.37 : Support for SFOS 4.5

0.6.35 : Disable Sailjail to allow admin app to start on SFOS 4.4

0.6.34: Fix for "Installation not complete" error

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Orologiaio

Thu, 2018/05/10 - 21:57

Still doesn't work for me! I even downloaded the rpm directly. If I can do something to help you track the issue, let me know.

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eber42

Fri, 2018/05/11 - 10:01

It would be really helpfull if you could send me a bug report (device and os version used, what are the symptons, etc.). You can use the e-mail address shown in the OKBoard settings application. Thanks.

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HackTheFish

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 23:27

Sorry, German language don't work with Jolla 1. The Keyboard freeze and nothing works.

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Olsen

Thu, 2018/05/10 - 00:11

I had the same problem. Then I uninstalled the German language package and OKBoard itself and installed both again afterwards. Now it runs again.

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ferlanero

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 00:46

After some testings, version 0.6.11 has lots of bugs using Spanish okboard dictionary where 0.6.9 version worked perfect. Errors like this while swapping words: el Eǹ
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ferlanero

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 00:49

This kind of errors become OKBoard almost unusable with the Spanish language

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eber42

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 12:16

OK, problem reproduced here, expect a fix soon. And in the meantime do not use the 0.6.11 version (I have removed it from the download area)

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ferlanero

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 16:49

Thanks for all of your work! I love this swappable keyboard! If you need more testing, please, let me know.

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ferlanero

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 16:39

It seems not to work on Sailfish X 2.1.4.14 Okboard simply doesn't appear

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eber42

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 17:56

It works for me with official 2.1.4.14 on Xperia X.
Please could you run:
killall maliit-server ; maliit-server 2>&1 | tee /tmp/okboard.log
and send me the okboard.log file
(I can't add error management for this part as maliit-server is managed by the OS)

Maybe that is the old bug that require a uninstall/reinstall of Okboard (unfortunately this one will not be fixed until I can reproduce it or gain physical access to a device with the issue)

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ferlanero

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:02

Hi! I just have uninstalled and deleted all files related with OKBoard and then reinstalled it from scratch and the app works again as intended. I can't send you any log because I already have reinstalled it before reading your comment.

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cvp

Tue, 2018/05/08 - 00:38

Jap, i uninstall okboard + german pack, and reibstall it. After then it works. Can confirm that. Thanks for the update :)

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eber42

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:47

I have found it there, but unfortunately the link seem broken and it was a SFOS 1 ambiance only anyway.
(Are you making fun of me ?)

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claustn

Thu, 2018/04/19 - 23:28

Is it possible to add custom "words"? With the original Swype keyboard (like on N9) I could insert easily simbols like ! ? and even simple smiles like :) swyping on the part of keyboard which has those symbols behind.

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eber42

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:30

You can already add words if they are composed of letters (just type them once) and you'll be able to swipe them a couple of minutes later.

If you want to add words with other symbols, you could add a word in the file ~/.local/share/okboard/<language>-user.txt.

For exemple if you add the line:
TL/DR tldr 1 1
would make "TL/DR" appears if you swipe the letters "tldr"

(this is completely unsupported so it may not work as intended)

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codecivil

Tue, 2018/03/20 - 17:01

Installed 0.6.9-1 on Moto G falcon (XT1032), SF 2.1.0.11 with german language file by mautz. Works like a charm!

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cizi

Fri, 2017/12/22 - 17:56

hello  guys, please can you give me a hint how to do a own dictionary? I can't  find the instruction anywhere :-(.. I have text file where is on each line ontal lines in  the file  is  160000.Many thanks

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gembiak

Mon, 2017/11/27 - 04:09

Is there a Polish language file available? And where can you download it?

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vansid

Fri, 2017/11/24 - 21:14

Wow, this works really well on the new Xperia - great job!  The only issue that I've seen is that it sometimes doesn't capitalize words even when the Shift is active.

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ferlanero

Thu, 2017/10/19 - 12:13

OKBoard works perfect on Xperia X with Sailfish X (2.1.3 Kymijoki)

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akikk69

Sun, 2017/08/27 - 22:12

Coming finnish support?

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klinglerware

Tue, 2017/03/07 - 02:19

I haven't tested extensively, but seems to work well on both Nexus 5 and OnePlus X.

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meegouser

Sun, 2017/03/05 - 09:54

I want to install OKBoard, but it fails every time I try it. By installing it direct from the .rpm-package, the message "A problem occured" pops up and by using the OpenRepos Warehouse app, the following screen pops up: http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/3fa226-1488696668.png

Do you have an idea what goes wrong on my Jolla Phone and how I can fix it?

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eber42

Sun, 2017/03/05 - 14:26

This looks similar to the issue damoleon reported a few comments below. Try 'pkcon refresh' and let us know if it works.

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meegouser

Sun, 2017/03/05 - 21:57

Yes, that worked. The installation took forever and Warehouse froze plenty times, but now it runs very well (including German package). Thanks for the tip!

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ade

Sat, 2017/03/04 - 19:28

Hi Eber42,
By default, OKBoard doesn't work with for example the various arrow keyboard by tmi. The reason is the language can't be properly detected.

The function updateContext in Gribouille.qml strips ".qml" from the filename to determine the language. That's okay if you have en.qml, but not if you have en_arrows.qml. If you do a substr(0,2) to get the first to characters it does work. Not sure if for example pt-BR will ever occur as language code, because than that code has to be a bit smarter.

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eber42

Sun, 2017/03/05 - 18:29

It will be included in the next release.

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ade

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 14:13

Kind reminder it is still not included in the latest release.

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eber42

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:04

It is supposed to be fixed in the current version (with a different fix than the one you suggested).
Could you give the reference of the arrow keyboard you use so that I could try it myself ?

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ade

Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:16

I just looked at the code and did not see a change there, so applied my own fix again.
But you are right, it is already working without my suggested change. Thanks and sorry for my false conclusion.

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