We are happy to announce that unl0kr, the successor to osk-sdl is now getting installed by default in postmarketOS edge!
Advantages of unl0kr:
- Initramfs is way smaller and much builds faster since we don't need to include all of mesa anymore (does not depend on GPU acceleration).
- The unlock screen shows up faster at boot.
- Switching on-screen keyboard layout at runtime (currently supported layouts: de, es, fr, us).
- Switching between light and dark theme at runtime.
- Disclosing and hiding entered password at runtime.
Migrating existing installations
As of writing, postmarketOS still has both osk-sdl and unl0kr in the repositories but we will remove osk-sdl at some point. If you have an existing installation, you can run the following commands to switch over to unl0kr. Consider creating a backup of your data if you have anything important on your phone, just in case.
# apk del osk-sdl
World updated, but the following packages are not removed due to:
osk-sdl: postmarketos-base postmarketos-ui-console device-qemu-amd64
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
OK: 347 MiB in 244 packages
and
# apk add unl0kr
The following packages will be REMOVED:
osk-sdl (possibly more depending on the UI you have installed)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
inih libevdev libinput-libs libinput-udev libxkbcommon mtdev unl0kr xkeyboard-config
After this operation, XXX MiB of disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(1/41) Purging osk-sdl (0.67.1-r5)
...
21:25:50.230118 == Generating initramfs ==
...
21:25:51.244195 boot-deploy completed in: 0.16s
21:25:51.245401 mkinitfs completed in: 1.02s
OK: 181 MiB in 219 packages
Reporting bugs
unl0kr has been tested on various phones already, see #1411. If it does not work on your phone, and there is no existing issue, then please create a new one here. As always, keep in mind that this piece of software is developed in spare time and you might need to help yourself if things don't work (see also state of postmarketOS).
Removal of osk-sdl from postmarketOS
Currently osk-sdl is still in postmarketOS edge and the stable version. We plan to remove it from edge after v23.12 was released, so for stable users it would still be available until v24.06. See #2319 for details.