I have n810 and am kind of enjoying the built in keyboard.. well at least I am getting used to it

Anyway the extremely annoying thing now is that whenever I start typing, this thick useless bar pops up at the bottom of the screen that says 'abc' in the rightmost position.

this bar serves absolutely no purpose other than wasting precious vertical space of screen.

I understand that sometimes it might be useful, for example for symbol input or when using pen input methods (I didn't do it so far though) but when I'm just typing someting into a text field it's basically useless.

There is an application that has some features removed because of this bar, namely them 'mc' console program lacks bottom buttons in file viewing mode.

So I wish to be able to delete this bar somehow and maybe to have a way to bring it back for unaccessible symbol entry.

I have tried to kill hildon-input-method process and this removed the bar, however it keeps re-appearing so probably some other process keeps starting it.

I also have skimmed through control panel and have not found any setting to disable it.

So is there way to get rid if it?

Oh and I am using Diablo OS - have installed it right after getting the tablet.