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Re: Keyboard layout

 

Hi Tomas,

I wrote the Swedish layout yesterday, it should get merged soon. If
LANGUAGE contains the swedish locale sv, it should be shown in the keyboard.



On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tomas Ö <tomoqv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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
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> 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> 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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