Termux-app: Prevent accidental key press when swiping the extra keys view to the left to access the text input view

Created on 4 Nov 2018 · 9Comments · Source: termux/termux-app

The title says it all.

User needs to be careful what key to lay his finger on when swiping the extra keys view, because when the swipe begins it registers as key press. One example for all: the "ARROW_UP" button will fill in previous command, this obstructs the new command you are about to type in the text input view.

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard

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vovcacik

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Thanks for reporting!

Fix has been released in version 0.83 or higher (Android 7+ devices will get version 0.84).

fornwall on 24 Nov 2019

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I can confirm this issue. This seems to have only become an issue when the extra keys thing was revamped and changed to two rows. Older versions of Termux did not have this problem.

This behavior makes the input view virtually unusable because there is no way (that I can find) to swipe the extra keys without sending a spurious keypress to the terminal, thereby messing up the state I need to begin text input in the first place.

ticalc-travis on 22 Nov 2018

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Same here, installed and upgraded today. Tolerable if swiping on CTRL, I guess.

eekee on 21 Dec 2018

I tried adding a blank key to the extra keys bar, hoping that would be a draggable point with no side effects -- instead this crashes Termux :p

I would much prefer if sliding in from the right side of the screen toggled this, similar to the burger menu on the left, as I do not otherwise use the extra input bar at all. Adding it just for the purpose of toggling between android-native and terminal-native text input results in an unfortunate waste of space.

9001 on 31 Jan 2019

I have the same problem since the keyboard was updated to two rows.

Quasic on 2 Feb 2019

Ditto!

Is the bar a custom GUI element? If so, a good solution would be to modify its logic so that the keys are activated on release of the button, and if the bar if swiped, the release event is blocked.