Replacing ASU/Qtopia keyboard with matchbox keyboard?

nick loeve trickie at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 16:04:11 CEST 2008


Hi

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM, thomasg <thomas at gstaedtner.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've installed the matchbox keyboard on my ASU installation, and I love
>> it.
>>
>> matchbox-keyboard-im - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 -
>> matchbox-keyboard-inputmethod - 0.0+svnr1910-r10 -
>> qtopia-phone-x11-libinputmatch -
>> 4.3.2+git3+876ed02211e50547856491ad54a75299b62efe4c-r31 -
>>
>> Only problem is, how can I get the apps to use it as an input method
>> instead of its own built-in QWERTY keyboard?
>>
>> Actually clicking on the keyboard's icon in the launcher is a disaster; it
>> gives me three instances of the keyboard and fills up the screen so much
>> that there's no way to open any other app, the only solution is to reboot
>> the phone.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -ken
>
> I think the matchbox keyboard only works in matchbox without changes.

You might wanna checkout the work the guys at INdT are doing for the
mamona distro in regards to input methods and matchbox-keyboard

http://dev.openbossa.org/mamona/gitweb
http://dev.openbossa.org/mamona/gitweb?p=mamona.git;a=commit;h=78e9f72d21842297e29c2b627fed9e1f3e495a0d

Cheers

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