I have successfully installed and tested zim, a desktop wiki that seems extremely useful for a device like the N900. The newer version from squeeze is working well under Easy Debian, except that one faces the problem that one would occasionally want to use special characters which are not available on the hardware keyboard.

Running zim under debbie, which I would have preferred, I did not succeed in letting xbindkeys together with xvkbd produce some of the extra characters. Function keys F1-F12 can be emulated, but overloading special characters like bracketleft/right (which are missing on my German keyboard) does not work. I'm puzzled that for example
does work to issue F9 and even allows me to insert a tab character in the text, but apparently no printable characters can be issued by e.g.
Since using xbindkeys in these experiments frequently fires up maemo-xinput-sounds with 100% CPU usage and dramatic battery drains, I switched over to LXDE, where I can in fact just use xmodmap to get more key bindings. (It's a known bug that xmodmap does not work from the terminal, but with LXDE, it's more or less fine, as I've reported earlier here.)

The only problem I'm now having with zim is the black background under Easy Debian. As a theoretical physicist, I would like to be able to insert math formulae, which one can do in zim using LATEX and dvipng , but the result is black on black as I discovered after a seeing nothing until I marked larger areas of the text. Too cool to be useful...

qole, you said earlier that the appearance of LXDE was easily configurable when somebody achieved a white background by ssh -X. But if I change themes, not much if anything changes, I always have black background!