sailfish-wlan-keyboard for easier typing on the phone

asked 2015-05-25 21:24:29 +0200

abertschi
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Hi there,

I created an app for SailfishOS called sailfish-wlan-keyboard that allows you to use your computer keyboard to type on your phone.

The app is open source software and released under the GPL V3. The landing page is here: http://wlankeyboard.abertschi.ch/

The app is available in the harbour store and on openrepos.

If this is any useful to you, if the app does not work as expected or if you are missing a feature, I would love to hear some feedback :)

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P.S.: SailfishOS and Jolla are awesome :D

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Cool! Will try.

lakutalo ( 2015-05-25 21:25:55 +0200 )edit

Thank you! This is pretty good. Desired features:

option to run the server in background (when the app is closed)
text selection using shift+arrowskeys
support for additional keyboards (currently only English keyboard is supported)

User ( 2015-05-26 16:13:41 +0200 )edit

@User, thx, good input! As to your first suggestion, there is a feature request here: https://github.com/abertschi/sailfish-wlan-keyboard/issues/14

Feel free to file other suggested features.

abertschi ( 2015-05-26 16:20:58 +0200 )edit

maybe I'm wrong but this very nice application doesn't work after lastupgrade 1.1.6.27. When I send a word to the phone it receive only the last letter to paste.

vm5 ( 2015-06-11 13:21:37 +0200 )edit

You could be a little more upfront about how this doesn't work over USB unless you are already connected to a WLAN. Obvious to some perhaps, but it wasn't to me, I had to hunt the answer down before asking here, which may have been quicker. It'd be nice if it operated over USB only and/or WLAN, or Bluetooth even.

Spam Hunter ( 2015-10-18 23:12:08 +0200 )edit

answered 2015-10-18 19:41:46 +0200

JosefNoll
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Is wlan-keyboard working on 1.1.9.28 (Eineheminlampi) - Jolla phone? In my case, the clipboard function works (verified both for SMS and notes), but not the Headless option.

Any advise on how to test the Headless functionality?

Thanks Josef

PS: This was the app I was looking for :-)

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@JosefNoll You need to install headless-keyboard from OpenRepos, to make the headless feature work. It's not available from Store because of policy reason.

eson ( 2015-10-18 22:46:14 +0200 )edit

Thanks for the answer. I have installed headless-keyboard, v0.3.1, but can't control if it is actually running. As I said, clipboard works fine, but headless does not give any reaction on the phone. Is there a way of "error searching"?

JosefNoll ( 2015-10-24 03:42:56 +0200 )edit

@JosefNoll Don't know about error searching, but I do know that I've had to reinstall headless-keyboard for every SFOS upgrade I've made. As it can't be uninstalled from OpenRepos (see this issue), you'll have to download the headless-keyboard rpm to your phone and run it from there. To run it you'll have to allow "Non trusted software" in phone settings.

As far as I know, there is no indicator on however it is actually running or not, but for me it just works out of the box after reinstall.

eson ( 2015-10-24 07:17:02 +0200 )edit

@JosefNoll, @eson, regarding 'error searching', make sure that you have installed the latest version of the wlan-keyboard. In v-0.4.1, a headless-keyboard detection was introduced which displays an error message if you select headless-mode but the necessary D-Bus service is not running. In addition, you could take a closer look at log messages of the headless-extension by going through the steps mentioned here. If this does not help either, file an issue here and we'll discuss more.

abertschi ( 2015-10-24 08:43:22 +0200 )edit

Thanks @abertschi that will make things easier.

eson ( 2015-10-24 09:00:51 +0200 )edit

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