Howto hide keyboard (Was: Re: minimo (browser on freerunner))

[Michael Kluge]

Michael Kluge schrieb:
> arne anka schrieb:
>> i just built minimo and cellwriter for the freerunner (gta02), which went  
>> surprisingly well ...
>> make build-package-minimo
>> and
>> make build-package-cellwriter
>> the hardes part was finding the packages afterwards.
>> i put them into two tar-balls, *dbg, *-dev, *-doc and the runtime one.
>> links see below.
>> how cellwriter is supposed to replace the i don't know and with minimo  
>> there's always 1/3 of the screen occupied by the keyboard (if somebody  
>> knows how to make that more flexible, ie the keyboard popping up when  
>> necessary, let me know).
>>
>> for ipk see
>> http://www.ginguppin.de/node/16
>>
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> I just found this: http://japiblog.dddgames.com/?p=15
> 
> I'll give matchbox-applet-inputmanager a chance ...


Here is the quick and dirty process for manually showing and hiding the 
keyboard.

- kill the matchbox-keyboard process
- (install and) start matchbox-applet-inputmanager
- run minimo

TODO would be a nicer icon in the applet bar (should be easy) and and to 
  put this into the matchbox config.


Michael