OpenBangla Keyboard is an OpenSource, Unicode compliant Bengali Input Method for GNU/Linux systems. It's a full fledged Bengali input method with typing automation tools, includes many famous typing methods such as Avro Phonetic, Probhat, Munir Optima, National (Jatiya) etc.
Most of the features of Avro Keyboard are present in OpenBangla Keyboard. So Avro Keyboard users will feel at home with OpenBangla Keyboard in Linux.
- Phonetic Keyboard Layout (Avro Phonetic)
- Fixed Keyboard Layout
- Typing Automation tools for Fixed Keyboard layout
- Can use Avro Keyboard Layout file (version 5)
- Layout Viewer
- Preview window when using Phonetic Keyboard Layout
- Features Avro Keyboard like Top Bar
Linux packages can be downloaded from here
If you need help, there is a wiki page
Tested in Ubuntu 16.04
Currently Debian Package(.deb) are only supported
OpenBangla Keyboard currently needs following libraries and binaries
- GNU GCC, G++ compiler or Clang
- GNU Make or Ninja
- CMake
- Qt 5.5 or later
- iBus development library
On a Ubuntu/Debian system you can easily install them like this
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libibus-1.0-dev qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev
On a Arch Linux / Arch Based system you can easily install them like this
sudo pacman -Sy base-devel cmake qt5-base qtdeclarative libibus
After you have installed required libraries and binaries. Clone this repository and change the directory to the cloned folder and issue the commands:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr'
make
sudo make install
Use iBus UI or run ibus-setup to add OpenBangla Keyboard. You can get help on adding OpenBangla Keyboard in Text entry settings in this page
The program is licensed under the GPL 3 License:
Copyright © 2015-2016 Muhammad Mominul Huque
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.