OpenBangla Keyboard is an open source, Unicode compliant, Bangla input method for GNU/Linux systems. It’s a full-fledged Bangla input method with typing automation tools, includes many famous typing methods such as Avro Phonetic, Probhat, Munir Optima, National (Jatiya) etc.

Most features of Avro Keyboard are present in OpenBangla Keyboard. So Avro Keyboard users will feel right at home in Linux with OpenBangla Keyboard.

🚧 🚧 Ongoing developments happen on the develop branch. 🚧 🚧

• Features
• Installation
  • Archlinux and it’s derivatives
  • Others
  • Finally
• Community
• Compiling on GNU/Linux
  • Ubuntu & Debian derivatives
  • Fedora
  • Arch Linux & it’s derivatives
  • openSUSE
  • Solus
  • Finally
• Acknowledgements
• License

• Features a Top Bar like Avro Keyboard for easy configuration.

• Layout Viewer

• Phonetic Keyboard Layout (Avro Phonetic)

  • 100% compatibility with current Avro Phonetic scheme.

  • Dictionary support can predict and suggest phonetically similar words with correct spelling on the fly.

  • Autocorrect feature for numerous commonly mistyped words.

  • Autocorrect support brings commonly used English words to Bangla (like, Facebook, download etc.) even with their original English spelling.

  • User can add and edit autocorrect entries.

  • Support for preview window to see originally typed text right under the cursor.

• Fixed Keyboard Layout

  • OpenBangla Keyboard comes with Probhat, Munir Optima, Avro Easy, Bornona, National (Jatiya) keyboard layouts out of the box.

  • OpenBangla Keyboard supports Avro Keyboard Layout files (version 5).

• Typing Automation tools for Fixed Keyboard layout

  • Automatic vowel forming.

  • Old style "Reph".

  • Traditional "-Kar" joining.

  • Automatic "Chandrabindu" position fixing.

Open your terminal and run this command on your bash shell. NB : It has to be BASH, otherwise it won’t work.

If this does not workout for you please create an Issue. While we look into the problem you can check the Wiki for Distrowise/Distro-specific Install Instructions.

Archlinux and it’s derivatives

sudo pacman -S base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/openbangla-keyboard.git
cd openbangla-keyboard
makepkg -risc

$ sudo pacman -U package.pkg.tar.zst

Others

Finally

We are on Github Discussions and Facebook.

OpenBangla Keyboard currently has the following build dependencies:

• GNU GCC, G++ compiler or Clang

• Rust 1.34.0 or later

• GNU Make or Ninja

• CMake

• Qt 5.5 or later

• iBus development library

• Zstandard compression library (zstd)

Ubuntu & Debian derivatives

sudo apt-get install build-essential rustc cargo cmake libibus-1.0-dev qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools libzstd-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install @buildsys-build rust cargo cmake qt5-qtdeclarative-devel ibus-devel libzstd-devel

Arch Linux & it’s derivatives

sudo pacman -S base-devel rust cmake qt5-base libibus zstd

openSUSE

sudo zypper install libQt5Core-devel libQt5Widgets-devel libQt5Network-devel libzstd-devel libzstd1 cmake make ninja rust ibus-devel ibus clang gcc patterns-devel-base-devel_basis

Solus

sudo eopkg install -c system.devel rust qt5-base-devel ibus-devel zstd-devel git cargo

Finally

git clone --recursive https://github.com/OpenBangla/OpenBangla-Keyboard.git
cd OpenBangla-Keyboard

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

• Mehdi Hasan Khan, for originally developing and maintaining Avro Keyboard.

• Rifat Nabi, for porting Avro Phonetic to Javascript.

• Sarim Khan, for writing ibus-avro.

• Saiful Islam, for the icon.

• Material Design Icons.

• QSimpleUpdater, for providing update mechanism.

This project is licensed under GPL 3 Licence.

Made with ❤️ by Muhammad Mominul Huque and ✨ contributors ✨!