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A lightweight keyboard for Android

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 7 stories, 12 comments · first 2022-01-29 · latest 2026-02-17

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  1. …) Unexpected Keyboard - A unique keyboard that pairs nicely with Termux ( https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard ) WG Tunnel - WireGuard client ( https://github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel ) These are all easily installed through Ob
  2. …sucks, but at least modal modes (vim) and unexpected keyboard[1] makes it somewhat tolerable. 1: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
    comment by bergheim · 2026-02-02 · in Termux
  3. I have Unexpected Keyboard which gives me most keys including Alt, Ctrl and Esc as well as F-keys. https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
    comment by mjmas · 2026-02-02 · in Termux
  4. …is now officially supported on Android ( https://f-droid.org/packages/org.gnu.emacs ). Along with https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard , it turns out to be a pretty usable (assuming you are the type that is okay working with emacs…
  5. …It also has all of the usual modifier keys so it's really nice to use together with Temux. [1] https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
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    Unexpected Keyboard
    story by twoquestions · 2024-12-10 · 148 comments
  7. …lot of work so if it's important to someone the contribution would need to come from the community: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/issues/343 Interestingly while searching for that issue I learned that FUTO claims to have…
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    Unexpected Keyboard – customiseable Android Keyboard with all keys available
    story by speerer · 2024-11-15 · 7 comments
  9. I use https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
  10. …for when I need Ctrl-C, maths symbols and operators when SSHing into my RPI's Unexpected keyboard https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard 3. the old classic for everyting Hackers keyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard
  11. …Does not have glide/swipe (reserved for symbols), but I just installed and giving it a shot: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
    comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2024-07-19 · in Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text
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    MessagEase decided to go subscription-based, here's some alternatives
    story by sciv · 2024-02-05 · 10 comments
  13. …[1] on Android. I can use shortcuts like on a real keyboard and it is easy to get used to. [1]: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
    comment by bibanez · 2024-01-04 · in Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
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    Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers
    story by aItr · 2023-11-27 · 0 comments
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    Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight virtual Android keyboard for developers
    story by thunderbong · 2022-08-30 · 1 comment
  16. …be in maintenance mode (sure, not necessarily an issue, but see the warning in the readme [2]). [1] https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard [2] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard#overview
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    Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers
    story by lnyan · 2022-06-28 · 0 comments
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    Unexpected Keyboard – An Android lightweight virtual keyboard for developers
    story by olvy0 · 2022-04-07 · 0 comments
  19. https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard