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DuoKeyboard by Nullbrains

Adds automatic keyboard selection for duolingo.com based on user preferences.

3.3 (25 reviews)
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For this course the keyboard is changed to a Russian layout with an additional cheat sheet.When you encounter an input field you will be asked what DuoKeyboard must do. Here you can select if the keyboard should be changed and if so which layout should be used. Note don't forget click on "Use Keyboard"Instead of using a keyboard to change your input you can also use an input method extension to type Korean or Vietnamese.If you would like to change the settings later you can go to the options menu by clicking on the extensions icon or through the extensions menu. Do not forget to save your preferences AND refresh the duolingo page.On the visual keyboard dead-keys (used to add accents to characters like ["] + [e] gives ë ) are represented in red. Some keyboards come with additional characters which are shown when the "right alt" button is pressed.
About this extension
This add-on adds automatic keyboard switching on duolingo based on the user preferences.
Multiple keyboards are supported covering most of the courses including Czech, Danish Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and more.

For several languages it is possible to choose different keyboard layouts.

TELEX, VNI and VIQR input is supported for Vietnamese learners.

Additionally a cheat sheet can be shown on screen to assist in learning the keyboard layout.
Developer comments
Linux users who have a system keyboard with deadkeys may experience some unexpected behavior (e.g. unwanted characters appearing). This is due to an upstream bug in firefox ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308820 ). The work around is to use a system keyboard without deadkeys.

Since Firefox will only support webextensions from version 57 onwards DuoKeyboard has upgraded to this. In Firefox 52 ESR not all features are enabled by default yet. Please enter "about:config" in the adres bar and set "webextensions.storage.sync.enabled" to true in about:config to be able to use DuoKeyboard.

Duolingo started to roll out a new version of its website around 19-09-2017, it may take some time to get DuoKeyboard compatible with this version.
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Required permissions:

  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for sites in the duolingo.com domain
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Version
1.5.0
Size
224.36 kB
Last updated
6 years ago (17 Sep 2019)
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Release notes for 1.5.0
Added new keyboards for Bengali, Catalan, Hawaiian, Navajo, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Thai
Improved visual support for composing characters

Fixed bug causing characters to appear multiple times after a single stroke in special cases
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