Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Mango @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Can anyone here get Gboard to gesture type "Lemmy"?

No matter what I do, it's like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It'll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like "aprifnid" but can't type "Lemmy". I suspect shenanigans.

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Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent lent Levi's left Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent Lenny Kenny Kent Lenny

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Kenny Kent lent Kenny Kent

Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lemmy lemmy lemmy. Lemmy. Kenny Kent lent

lemmy lemmy lemmy.

Lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy

Lines in italics were typed, lines not in italics were swiped, bold was swiped then selected from the suggested word list. It took a little bit but I managed to train it to do it.
- We need you in my QA department.
Lemmy

Nope for me it works, I'm using the openboard fork with gesture typing
- Is that a privacy focused alternative? Where's the APK?
  
  https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/
Lemmy

first try on open board with gboard swipe type
Kenny Kent Kent Kent.

Nope
Lemmy
Kelly
Lenny
My first try yielded "Kelly" but was about to get "Lemmy" on my second try. I recommend trying to touch the space to the right of the "L".
- Lemmy
  
  Holy shit, it worked!! Took 3 tries though.
I deleted "Kenny" and now it seems to do it fine if I double boop the M.
Lenny Lemme Lemmy, got it :D
Lenny Lemmy (on AnySoftKeyboard)
lemme lemmy lemmy lemmy lemmy, yeah seems like it works for me.
I can't really try because I've set up the lemmyface to show up whenever I type lemmy by swiping. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kelly Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lent Lenny Lent Lenny Lent Lent Kelly Lent Lenny Lenny Lent Lent Lent Lenny

Ok you win
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

I'd a circle on the 'm'
Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you're over it.
- Is that a thing? I've noticed better results with some words when I make sure I make a hard turn or pause on a letter.
  
  Both are indeed things.
My attempts: Kent Lenny Lemmy Lenny Lemmy lemmy.
Lemme Lemmy

2nd attempt.
- Lemmy
  
  First! And I actually did quite poor...
Just to confirm you're not crazy, I tried the standard method of adding a word by manually typing 'lemmy' and then tapping the same word on the suggestion bar, which didn't work.

Tested adding other nonsense words like treypses which worked as expected for swyping, but to get Lemmy to work I had to add Lemmy in Gboard's personal dictionary
- Adding to the various dictionaries didn't work for me, but this guy's suggestion did! https://lemmy.world/comment/6948861
- Worked for me after about 3 uses.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy

Yep
Swipe for lemmy works fine here, but I've tap-typed it a lot.
Works here. I can never get it to swipe type "Mastodon" though.
- Mastodon
  
  First try.
  
  I've learned that pausing a bit on letters helps and also extending a bit further past the ones on the ends.

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