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I have tried a few private keyboards, but none of them had the possibility to have one layout (Qwerty) with two correction languages (English and French). Any suggestions?

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FlorisBoard is by far the best of all open source keyboards I've tried.

[–] windlas@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have they added spell check yet? I love it, but I need a keyboard that can spellchwck and autocorrect...

I'm leaving that typo in there to make my point.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I guess not: there is a big red box in the settings saying "Suggestions (except autofill) are not available in this release".

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

When I enable the spellchecker systemwide, it says "unknown / null" in the spellchecker settings. So I'm guessing not. I never use any spellchecker myself so I wouldn't know if there is something else to install.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AnySoftKeyboard is flexible enough for bilingual (or trilingual or +) use. For qwerty with french, you have to choose Canadian French 🤷

i installed open board for a monolingual friend who uses azerty

[–] Chestrade@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried that one. You have to manually switch between the languages to get the corresponding autocorrect. I need a multilingual qwerty keyboard

[–] noodlejetski@geddit.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

long press the Enter key, choose "override default dictionary", and pick the languages to merge.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

thank you. i didn't know that we can merge them. This must be what op needs

[–] Chestrade@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow I didn't know it was possible. I'll give it a try thank!

[–] noodlejetski@geddit.social 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, ASK has got tons of little QoL features that it doesn't advertise anywhere and you just randomly stumble across. I've been using it for several years before someone told me about merging dictionaries.

[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Openboard fork with gestures is excellent. That's what I'm using after giving up Gboard.

Edit: link - https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you please link to where you got that fork with gestures?

[–] doggoloko@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Im using now florisboard, its beta now and correction is experimental, but its seen to be very well made and its FOSS

[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Chestrade@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's nice but it doesn't have an auto correct. I need that for my fat thumbs

Ah yeah. I think it's in the works but yeah i feel you

[–] vkirlin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I use AnySoftKeyboard

[–] deys@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

openboard and florisboard for more customization.

[–] InstallGentoo@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Florisboard or Simple Keyboard

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I ditched traditional keyboards and got Thumb-key, now I can just have my keyboard in Spanish all the time

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

what do you mean by "thumb-key"? when i search, i see custom hardware keyboards

edit 1 found it: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

i have to read more about this, and try for some time to learn

edit 2 it's so awkward to use. Do you use only one thumb or both? Where are the predictions?

passing from 10 fingers to 2 is already a handicap. sometimes i put my screen on a surface to use the keyboard like a 'real' keyboard with 10 fingers. a thumb-key is torture for me 😬

how is your speed with this layout? did you test it?

[–] yessikg@lemmy.film 0 points 2 years ago

Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I'm a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn't test speed

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