I don’t think the installation steps for the Linux version in the announcement are complete. You also need to type “sudo apt-get install keyman” I think.
After this third step, I do have Keyman on my computer, and I can download and use a keyboard on it.
My linux version is Wasta Linux 18.04, which is based on Ubuntu.
The Keyman “About” menu item launches a splash screen, and thats it. Just the splash screen image appears and no text. The image stays in the foreground on top of all other applications and there is no way to close it.
The input method does not support letter composition, the 2nd keystroke does not modify the first. So in Amharic typing “k” => “áŠâ€ť , typing a following “a” leads to “áŠa” and not “ካ” as expected.
I see the page is updated. It now says sudo apt-get install keyman onboard
What does the word “onboard” do in that command line? Is my test machine missing something because I didn’t enter that word in the command?
I also have a MacBook Pro with macOS Mojave, and I don’t see either of these problems with Keyman 11.0.200. The “about” item shows text with the image and typing ka in the Amharic keyboard gives “ካ”
Do you have problems with other keyboards beside the Amharic one?
Maybe one of the developers can chime in with some troubleshooting tips. Would removing Keyman and reinstalling it again help?
I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of keyman on my macbook. previously i had simply copied the new keyman on top of the old. the behavior remains the same.
The keyboard works fine with TextEdit, Safari and Sublime. But has the composition issue with Chrome 71.0.3578.98 and MS Word 16.16.5 .
Another experience with the 11.0.200 osx build is that when I select from the MS Word font menu, or font size menu, it triggers the keyman onscreen keyboard to pop up.
The instructions for installing “Keyman for Linux 11.0 beta” say: “On Ubuntu (gnome-shell) you need to install the Input Source in Region & Language Settings.” This is not obvious to me. Are there more detailed instructions somewhere? For example, if I want to install the EuroLatin keyboard and use it to type French, what should I do (on a standard Ubuntu 18.04 install)?
Hi @drowe, we are working on the documentation for Linux installation – at present the beta is available on the assumption that you’d already be familiar with your Linux distribution’s language configuration. We do aim to have documentation for popular distros available by release date.
FWIW, km-config from the console is a good starting point for downloading and installing keyboard packages.