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@magick_doc & sulu
Of course, I've tried apt-get update after adding squeeze-backports. I'm also surprised, that apt-get shows ure as unavailable (broken packages due to ure not available). I'll try removing OpenOffice totally before trying again.

BTW, magic_doc - I'm glad my "troubles" resulted in something good for You too You may also find useful, that Epiphany - with installed extension that allows scrolling page via middle-click - becomes much more touch-friendly, as You can use Rebhana's middle click (shift + tap), resulting in touch-scrolling page (like in microB) while shift is pressed. unfortunately, haven't (yet) found a way to achieve the same in Iceweasel.

Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Just to clarify (please confirm if that's basically the same for your Polish layout):
I tried the German keyboard layout in ED and all the blue arrow keys worked EXCEPT for:
1) "," which is blue_arrow + "." on the German keyboard and is on the left_arrow key of the US layout.
2) cursor_up which is cursor_left on the German keyboard and is cursor_down on the US layout.
3) cursor_down which is cursor_right on the German keyboard and is cursor_right on the US layout.

So what does not work correctly for me is the lower cursor key row. "?" which is blue_arrow + "Ä" on the German keyboard (cursor_up on US keyboard) works fine. I made a complete diff between the directories /usr/share/X11/xkb of my Squeeze image and a stock Easy Debian image and they were identical (which is no surprise since both are simply copied from Maemo).
Currently I have no solution for the keyboard problem on non-US layouts. Frankly I don't even know if it ever worked for me since I switched to US layout the 2nd day after getting my N900.
In my case, blue arrow keys aren't working at all - that's it, I can't write literally *any* "blue" symbol. So, only basic letters and SHIFT'ed ones (so, i also have '.' and ',', but trying to use them with shift, I get '<' instead of ';', and '>' instead of ':'), + enter, backspace, ctrl, space and keys (left, right, up, down).

The most strange thing, is that it doesn't work for me even using US layout - that is, without specifying @setxkbmap pl in my /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file. Executing 'setxkbmap' us or pl from withing LXDE result in only small change - using Polish layout, I can get polish special characters using blue arrow + letter (just like on desktop, AltGr - aka right alt - + letter does the same).

I've even tried setting Maemo layout to US - to no avail. Furthermore,
Code:
rm -r /.debian/usr/share/X11/xkb
...and copying again my /usr/share/X11/xkb doesn't result in any improvement. Basically, I'm totally lost here :/

Originally Posted by sulu
It should be safe to uninstall wicd since it's just a chroot and uses Maemo's connection anyway. I've never used wicd on Easy Debian and since my dist-upgrade it's uninstalled. I've never had any problems with that.
Can you please post the output of apt-get when you try to purge wicd?
unfortunately, I decided to purge wicd before reading Your reply - I can confirm, that everything works fine, although, apt-get decided, that removing wicd requires plentora of packages (like bluez, or some usb-related, basically for every connection type) to be installed. What is strange here, when I now check apt-get install wicd, those packages aren't listed as unnecessary and prone to apt-get autoremove... Still, as I've said, it works well without wicd, and annoying message disappeared.

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As for image qole requested - If You (sulu) haven't prepared very specific changes, I think that your image with portrait tweaks etc is good candidate for new ED image.

Ho ever, if qole would like to have dist-upgrade'd image of partition from pure v3e image, I'll gladly volunteer in installing vanilla ED image and repeating upgrade process again. Still, I'm not sure if it's of good use, because those goddamned keyboard layout problems I'm experiencing.

/Estel
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Last edited by Estel; 2011-12-18 at 19:35.