OKBoard
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:
| Attachment | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|
 okboard-full-0.6.25-1.armv7hl.rpm | 10.5 MB | 20/10/2020 - 09:05 |
| okboard-full-0.6.26-1.armv7hl.rpm | 10.5 MB | 09/02/2021 - 05:00 |
| okboard-full-0.6.27-1.armv7hl.rpm | 10.5 MB | 13/05/2021 - 13:47 |
| okboard-full-0.6.34-1.aarch64.rpm | 10.51 MB | 29/09/2021 - 20:00 |
| okboard-full-0.6.34-1.armv7hl.rpm | 10.5 MB | 29/09/2021 - 20:00 |
Changelog:
0.6.34: Fix for "Installation not complete" error
0.6.33: Support for SFOS 4.2 & aarch64 (version pulled out)
0.6.27: Support for SFOS 4.1 still some issues with Android support, stay with SFOS 4.0 if it bothers you
0.6.26: Support for SFOS 4
0.6.25: Support for SFOS 3.4.0 (second try)
Comments
eber42
Fri, 2018/05/11 - 09:57
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OKboard does not send any information outside of your device (except if you hit the "Send logs by e-mail" button, obviously). This can be checked as OKboard is 100% open source.
Orologiaio
Thu, 2018/05/10 - 11:24
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I can't install the latest version ok OKBoard (latest official SFOS on Xperia X). How can I help to debug this issue?
eber42
Thu, 2018/05/10 - 17:43
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Thanks for your feedback. Installation/upgrade issues should now (hopefully) be fixed with the last release (0.6.15)
ferlanero
Fri, 2018/05/11 - 02:19
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Yes! Now everything works with 0.6.15 on Sailfish X. Thank you very much!!
Orologiaio
Thu, 2018/05/10 - 21:57
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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.
eber42
Fri, 2018/05/11 - 10:01
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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.
HackTheFish
Tue, 2018/05/08 - 23:27
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Sorry, German language don't work with Jolla 1. The Keyboard freeze and nothing works.
Olsen
Thu, 2018/05/10 - 00:11
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I had the same problem. Then I uninstalled the German language package and OKBoard itself and installed both again afterwards. Now it runs again.
ferlanero
Tue, 2018/05/08 - 00:46
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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
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This kind of errors become OKBoard almost unusable with the Spanish language
eber42
Tue, 2018/05/08 - 12:16
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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)
ferlanero
Tue, 2018/05/08 - 16:49
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Thanks for all of your work! I love this swappable keyboard! If you need more testing, please, let me know.
ferlanero
Mon, 2018/05/07 - 16:39
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It seems not to work on Sailfish X 2.1.4.14 Okboard simply doesn't appear
eber42
Mon, 2018/05/07 - 17:56
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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.logand 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)
ferlanero
Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:02
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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.
cvp
Tue, 2018/05/08 - 00:38
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Jap, i uninstall okboard + german pack, and reibstall it. After then it works. Can confirm that. Thanks for the update :)
eber42
Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:47
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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 ?)
claustn
Thu, 2018/04/19 - 23:28
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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.
eber42
Mon, 2018/05/07 - 18:30
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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 1would make "TL/DR" appears if you swipe the letters "tldr"
(this is completely unsupported so it may not work as intended)
codecivil
Tue, 2018/03/20 - 17:01
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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!
cizi
Fri, 2017/12/22 - 17:56
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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
gembiak
Mon, 2017/11/27 - 04:09
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Is there a Polish language file available? And where can you download it?
vansid
Fri, 2017/11/24 - 21:14
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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.
ferlanero
Thu, 2017/10/19 - 12:13
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OKBoard works perfect on Xperia X with Sailfish X (2.1.3 Kymijoki)
akikk69
Sun, 2017/08/27 - 22:12
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Coming finnish support?
klinglerware
Tue, 2017/03/07 - 02:19
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I haven't tested extensively, but seems to work well on both Nexus 5 and OnePlus X.
meegouser
Sun, 2017/03/05 - 09:54
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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?
eber42
Sun, 2017/03/05 - 14:26
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This looks similar to the issue damoleon reported a few comments below. Try 'pkcon refresh' and let us know if it works.
meegouser
Sun, 2017/03/05 - 21:57
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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!
ade
Sat, 2017/03/04 - 19:28
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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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