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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Sanpo

Fri, 2019/04/12 - 21:31

Add Finnish support please ;)

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Historyscholar

Thu, 2019/04/11 - 11:43

Can you support Chinese :)    

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eber42

Sun, 2019/04/14 - 17:41

Really no, that would be a completely different product (... and I know nothing about Chinese)

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akikk88

Wed, 2019/04/10 - 19:35

Finnish support plz ☺

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nerip

Tue, 2019/04/09 - 15:33

Thanks but it still buggy on XA2 Plus...It works and stop working....

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eber42

Sun, 2019/04/14 - 21:03

As already stated, large devices over 5" like XA2 Plus are not yet supported. I'll add support in a future release.

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nerip

Tue, 2019/04/16 - 14:00

Thanks

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PawelSpoon

Mon, 2019/04/08 - 18:23

Hooray !!

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ferlanero

Mon, 2019/04/08 - 13:14

Best keyboard ever has returned!! Thank you very much!! :D

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skyjumper

Sat, 2019/04/06 - 07:10

Perhaps I am missing something, but I can't seem to find the 0.6.17 source in the Git tree? Is it available? Wanting to play and build my own test version whilst waiting for an official build from you :-)

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eber42

Mon, 2019/04/08 - 12:01

May have lost the tag :) (there was no change in engine part for this version anyway). All is now up to date for version 0.6.18.

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meegouser

Tue, 2019/03/19 - 22:52

OKBoard doesn't seem to work with the new Sailfish 3.0.2.8 anymore:

https://together.jolla.com/question/201102/release-notes-302-oulanka/?an...

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eber42

Wed, 2019/03/27 - 11:21

I am currently abroad and have not access to development devices, so next release is probably one or two weeks away. And I did not anticipate Jolla would put this version out of EA so soon after breaking so many things :-)

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ferlanero

Thu, 2019/04/04 - 18:45

Will we see an Okboard update any time soon? I really miss it in Sailfish 3.0.2.8 :'(

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eber42

Mon, 2019/04/08 - 13:03

New version with support for SFOS 3.0.2 is out

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meegouser

Tue, 2019/04/09 - 14:52

Thanks for your work, once again!

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meegouser

Thu, 2019/03/28 - 05:23

Excellent!

I was surprised too that 3.0.2.8 was released for all without improvements, but at least for me OKBoard not working is the only "regression" I can see so far. ;-)

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nerip

Thu, 2018/12/20 - 00:29

Nice app, but doesn't work properly when i start swiping fron the edge, it is overidden by the system swipe to come back to home or event view. Could you do anything?

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eber42

Tue, 2018/12/25 - 13:18

I do not know how to prevent edge swipe, and i am not sure it would be a good idea to prevent a system wide gesture from working, as it would break user interface consistency. An easy workaround is to start your swiipes a bit farther from screen edges, it is really quick and easy to learn. The keyboard will adapt to this behavior so that accuracy is not reduced.

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Sailfishman

Mon, 2018/12/17 - 23:55

Doesn't work on xperia xa2 plus -> 6''

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eber42

Tue, 2018/12/25 - 13:35

I have added this to the project backlog. It will take some time as supporting new sizes / aspect ratios require access to real devices to understand how sfos user interface scales, to generate test cases and for real user testing.

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cartron

Tue, 2018/11/20 - 18:27

Very nice app, finally a swipe like keyboard for sailfish! Works perfectly on my Xperia X, both in English and French

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rob_k

Mon, 2018/11/19 - 21:05

Wonderful, you made my day! Really happy that it is silent again. Thanks!

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murfik

Mon, 2018/11/19 - 18:07

possible add russian?

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247

Mon, 2018/11/19 - 01:48

The keyboard is working very well but unfortunately is not working well on webviews like sailbook, preventing me from using regularly... Anyway it's surely one of the best keyboards out there

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Olsen

Sun, 2018/11/18 - 23:05

Yeah!! The typing sounds are gone! So after almost half a year I finally can use OKBoard again.   :-)

Thank you very much, Eric! Typing was soo slooow!

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ferlanero

Sun, 2018/11/18 - 22:18

Absolute thumbs up!! Great work! Thank you very much for your great work providing a high quality swipe-like keyboard for SailfishOS 3

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ferlanero

Fri, 2018/11/09 - 17:29

Since Sailfish version 3 the change of the active language has become unable. The only way you can change keyboard language is disabling Okboard, going into Configuration -> Text Input -> Change active keyboard and then enable Okboard again. Too many steps to this action. An update of this behaivour would be welcome. Thanks!

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eber42

Sat, 2018/11/10 - 21:18

A new version will be out soon with proper support for SFOS 3 and some bug fixes (hopefully including the widely reported sound issue). Stay tuned.

Edit: obviously, the new gesture to switch language will be disabled, because it conflicts with word swiping

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Breeze

Mon, 2018/11/05 - 20:50

And cant change language with the space bar.

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