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[Tomas Ö <tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Correction to the GMail and Twitter comment below. After a reboot 
keyboard works (but without auto-caps) in GMail, but still not when 
composing a tweet. Using the search function in Twitter brings up the 
keyboard.

/Tomas

Tomas Ö skrev 2013-11-05 15:16:
> Hi Bill,
>
> I am on 14.04 (r10) and yes, I noticed that auto-caps is working in 
> the Notes and Messaging apps. However, when I try composing a new 
> message in GMail or a new tweet in the Twitter app, the keyboard 
> doesn't even show up.
>
> With reference to the reply from Thomas, I was wondering about the 
> command:
> adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set com.canonical.keyboard.maliit 
> enabled-languages "['en', 'es', 'fr', 'pt', 'de', 'zh']"
> The layout is picked from the LANGUAGE env variable. A recent keyboard 
> is needed.
>
> In a previous build r100 I think, I tried changing the keyboard layout 
> according to my question here:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/362910/swedish-keyboard-on-ubuntu-touch
>
> Does the keyboard depend on the display language from the Ubuntu Touch 
> settings? I was thinking I could use a Swedish keyboard together with 
> the English UI language, as Swedish is not yet enabled in Ubuntu Touch 
> (probably because it isn't ready enough). In that case, how do I 
> enable Swedish for the UI?
>
> Thanks,
> Tomas
>
>
> Bill Filler skrev 2013-11-05 14:51:
> > On 11/05/2013 06:23 AM, Tomas Ö wrote:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > thanks for the input. I will try this for the keyboard layout. As I 
> > > stated below, I have tried the auto-caps command without any result. 
> > > I guess that is what you meant with the "predicitive-text true" 
> > > command...? I will try that again also.
> >
> > auto-caps is the default behavior now and is working in the latest 
> > image. The first letter of the word or after punctiation should be 
> > automatically capitilized in non special text fields. you should not 
> > need to turn predictive-text on to get the auto-caps functionality as 
> > they are properly decoupled. Are you using latest trusty image?
> > phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed
> > > I assume that these commands could also be issued from the terminal 
> > > app on the device, or?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Tomas
> > >
> > > Thomas Moenicke skrev 2013-11-05 12:18:
> > > > Hi Tomas,
> > > >
> > > > you need to add the desired language to the list of enabled languages:
> > > > adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set 
> > > > com.canonical.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['en', 'es', 'fr', 
> > > > 'pt', 'de', 'zh']"
> > > > The layout is picked from the LANGUAGE env variable. A recent 
> > > > keyboard is needed.
> > > >
> > > > For getting autocaps working also try this:
> > > > adb shell sudo -iu phablet gsettings set 
> > > > com.canonical.keyboard.maliit predictive-text true
> > > >
> > > > Thomas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Tomas Ö <tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx 
> > > > <mailto:tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     Is it possible to change the keyboard layout with the gsettings
> > > >     command? I also tried to change auto-capitalization with the
> > > >     following command in the terminal on my device:
> > > >
> > > >     sudo -iu phablet gsettings set com.canonical.keyboard.maliit
> > > >     auto-capitalization true
> > > >
> > > >     but it didn't work.
> > > >
> > > >     Thanks,
> > > >     Tomas
> > > >
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