Gesture typing is not working anymore

[vit1-irk]

I have updated Termux a while ago and now it's seen that you can not use the fast gesture typing (on-screen keyboard) anymore.

This feature was really useful to enter some text in Vim and even in regular command line. It takes more time to perform input by one symbol.

Please add the way to re-enable it somehow or take the old behavior back.

Thanks.

[Neo-Oli]

Are you sure you're using the Text input view? https://termux.com/touch-keyboard.html#extra-keys-view

[vit1-irk]

Yes, I know about this feature, but you need to switch between those Alt, Tab, Ctrl, etc touch keys and the Text input view all the time if you are working with Vim or other interactive application.

Maybe it is possible to combine extra keys and input view without scrolling?

[Neo-Oli]

Gesture typing requires a text input field that is able to communicate back to the keyboard application, so that the keyboard knows what has already been typed. As far as I am aware this would be impossible to implement into a terminal emulator.

[vit1-irk]

In previous versions of Termux combined typing worked, i remember clearly.

But now you can alternatively add the feature of keeping the extra keys bar and Text input view in the same screen.

Example algorithm:

1. User is typing text in Text input view
2. Press special key (Ctrl, Alt, Escape)
3. Entered text transfers into application
4. The special key is kept to complete the key combination
5. Keybinding is processed by console app
6. Termux input focus goes back to Text input view

[eboody]

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

Text Input View

Terminal emulators usually do not support the advanced features of touch keyboards like autocorrect, prediction and swipe typing. To solve this, Termux has a text input view. Text entered in it will get pasted to the terminal. Because it's a native Android text input view, all touch keyboard features will work. To access the text input view you have to swipe the extra keys view to the left.

[tribixbite]

Screen_Recording_20251028_232539_Termux.mp4