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[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

On Android, I've used Hacker's Keyboard since my earliest days on the platform and still use it to this day. It provides a full 5-row layout including modifiers, control keys, and arrows. It works exactly like you'd expect it to work. I can't stand the default keyboards.

On mobile Linux, there is a keyboard called squeekboard that lets you define the key layout using .yaml files. The default layout is pretty limited, but I created my own portrait and landscape 5-row layouts also with modifiers, control keys, and arrows that makes the experience so much better. I'm typing this on my custom portrait layout. I often edit code and use the terminal with this layout too. phone keyboards are bad because of bad design choices, not because touch keyboards are inherently bad.

[-] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Mobile linux? Which distro do you use? I have my eye on ubuntu touch, but still haven't made the switch

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

postmarketOS on a OnePlus 6T. I have used various other distros on my PinePhones as well.

[-] lambda@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I can't find "hacker's keyboard". I searched f-droid and the play store..

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I know for sure it's on F-Droid. I installed it fairly recently (like a month ago). Pretty sure the name is "Hacker's Keyboard" and you need the apostrophe in the search or F-Droid won't find it.

[-] lambda@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

You're right, I needed that apostrophe.. Thanks!!

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