and to use xkbd with DOSbox and Basilisk II (xkbd on OS 2008 is buggy).


I think this has to do with the way the maemo developers decided to handle the keyboard.

xkbd emulates hardware at the X level while hildon-input-method works with the controls in gtk2. They chose this so that they could do fancy stuff like capitalizing first letters and doing various things by *context* rather than just providing input.

So, when you send keys throuhg xkbd, the maemo stuff interferes and you get messed up input. The xkbd program works fine if you are not in a modified control, such as using rxvt with the hildon keyboard turned off.

But turning off the hildon keyboard does not always work completely and you run the danger of getting lockups while using xkbd.

Practically, this means that there is no choice but to use their virtual keyboard since it interferes so badly with other virtual keyboards.