Pro1 first-day-user questions

[Kikka 25]

Thank you very much. I just tried it. I love it, it works very well for the virtual keyboard, but I still can't make it work for the physical keyboard. I'm gonna keep trying 😁

[chrisheld 4]

I'm also gonna hijack this thread and ask:

Is it possible for me to long press certain keys for accents/umlauts? (E.g.: long press 'o' for 'ö')

I have looked through some input settings and, after finding this thread, installed SwiftKey, which has some more settings, but still not this feature.

If that's not possible: any other chance to get accented letters and umlauts usable?

 

Also,

37 minutes ago, Kikka said:

but I still can't make it work for the physical keyboard.

for me, it worked out of the box after installing and setting SwiftKey. It recognized the physical keyboard and upon 'space' while typing it autocorrected the word I typed. Take a look at the SwiftKey settings, there is a special section for physical keyboards with some autocorrect options, I think.

[Slion 1,201]

16 hours ago, chrisheld said:

Is it possible for me to long press certain keys for accents/umlauts? (E.g.: long press 'o' for 'ö')

Not with stock no, Lineage OS does it though. However IMHO while at first tempting this feature is in fact not very desirable once you got used to the keyboard. Also there are a couple of alternative keyboard layouts available such FinQwerty or Fx Qwerty that can help you have better access to international characters.

Edited June 10, 2020 by Slion

[chrisheld 4]

3 hours ago, Slion said:

Also there are a couple of alternative keyboard layouts available such FinQwerty or Fx Qwerty that can help you have better access to international characters.

Thanks you very much, this helped a lot!

[Kikka 25]

Thank you so much guys, it finaly worked! And I also finaly found the "?" and accents, not all of them yet, but it's a good start!

Thanks again

[EskeRahn 5,471]

11 minutes ago, Kikka said:

Thank you so much guys, it finaly worked! And I also finaly found the "?" and accents, not all of them yet, but it's a good start!

Thanks again

The Stock maps for US qwertY and German qwertZ can be found here https://android.onse.fi/finqwerty/#pro1

[VaZso 1,998]

47 minutes ago, EskeRahn said:

The Stock maps for US qwertY and German qwertZ can be found here https://android.onse.fi/finqwerty/#pro1

Also, it worth a look at Finqwerty itself for other layouts.

[EskeRahn 5,471]

6 minutes ago, VaZso said:

Also, it worth a look at Finqwerty itself for other layouts.

Indeed, I will strongly recommend FinQwerty over stock layouts. (Note that it is not an active app, it is just presenting the system with pre-made layout files)

[Craig 1,435]

On 6/9/2020 at 7:02 AM, Slion said:

Not with stock no, Lineage OS does it though. However IMHO while at first tempting this feature is in fact not very desirable once you got used to the keyboard. Also there are a couple of alternative keyboard layouts available such FinQwerty or Fx Qwerty that can help you have better access to international characters.

While I agree with you by using those layouts you can avoid the need for this feature, it is still useful if you don't want to install additional layouts.  Lineage includes the standard AOSP layouts.  The US International included has dead key on apostrophe, making normal english annoying, and there is no version with deadkeys only with altgr like pcs (and sailfishos) and those addon layouts have.  

Second, for english users who rarely use accents, it's easier than remembering key combinations rarely used.  When used regularly, like é in José or résumé or ¹ in Pro¹ you memorize them etc no problem, so if i used finqwerty/fxqwerty I would remember that é is on e and ¹ on 1 with us intl, but for rare occasion I want to type Mötley Crüe or doppelgänger, longpress is useful 😉, so I just use the included US English and longpress when I need é or ¹ too.

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Craig