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and another shortcut:

CTRL + Backspace: Put current application in background and switch to the task switcher overview.

This even works when playing bounce. And the ball runs further...
;)

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Doesn't work in Ubuntu.

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Just a note. Most, if not all, of the "hacker" symbols can be found on the N900 by pressing the Fn+Ctrl keys. This pops up a character palate with lots of extra characters, including < > [ ] { } |
The one weird thing about that is that you have to press space after any of the characters on the third row (which includes ` and ~) to get them to show. Turns out they are "composed" characters.

Does anyone with an N900 know how to modify the keys using the rx-51 xkb file? It seems to completely ignore my changes!

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Can anyone with an n900 say whether the keyboard can select text, e.g., Control-Shift right arrow? i did not see it mentioned in the manual.

i guess Control-Shift + anything would be tough to press :confused:

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Yes, in some(TM) apps. For example Email editor.

No, as Control and Shift are directly next to each other.

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Feel free to vote for https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5314 ;-)

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Anyone figured out what Ctrl+Shift+n (KEY_ACTION_TOGGLE_NON_COMP_MODE) is for? All it seems to do here is make the display black (use Ctrl+Backspace to recover).

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Except for that ALT key inbetween... pressing the combination for xterm without dropping the device is an acquired skill ;-)

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Selecting text is Shift+arrow isn't it, not Ctrl+Shift+arrow?

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Does anyone know what key is the blue arrow (Fn) in scratchbox? I wanted to press Ctrl+Fn in scratchbox to see the mentioned character palate.

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Does Control Alt F1 drop you out of X and into the Console?

Mike C
oops where is F1

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You can use it with the browser in fullscreen. It gives a little speed boost while you lose fancy effects.

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How do the blue symbol keys work? You hit the blue arrow ("ALT", I'm assuming), then hit sym/ctrl, then hit the sym key?

If so, then it sounds like emacs and the like might not work as C-M-blah would send you to symbol mode? Or do they have to be pressed in sequence?

Anyone?

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You just press fn (the blue key) and some key with symbol on it. Similar with laptops..

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That's even worse news :( That would mean i couldn't even do M-x as it would enter '$'.

Surely a fellow emacs user has tried the n900. Is there any way to make it work without being a royal pain?

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Has any emacs user already tried the N900?

I live in emacs and think there's gonna have to be some serious xmodmap remapping for emacs to be useable on the n900, the Meta key missing.

Right Ctrl key missing is gonna be a pain for touch typing. Any experiences yet with remapping for emacs useability?

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I read somewhere that the volume down key is mapped to meta and the volume up key is tab (in qemacs). That might actually work out fine, but I haven't tried it yet (obviously).

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It seems that the on screen esc-key works as a meta key, at least for some apps in xterm on the N900.

To be frank what I noticed was that pressing esc and then arrow or number swiches irssi-window (this is traditionally done w/ the meta key as far as I know..

(sorry if I'm poking an old thread but this was a pain for me to find so I figured I'd help out fellow IRCers ;) )