Thread: Bluetooth Keyboard Plugin Update
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2006-01-18 , 02:24
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#20
Originally Posted by Mike Cane
Live via 770 with Bluetooth keyboard:

Well, it seems I somehow managed to make it *pair* with the the 770! And as all you poor ThinkOutside keyboard owners can see, I have no problem typing any characters at all (go on, I have to rub it in!)! I am still getting some duplicate characters at times, however. I still don't think this is the fault of the keyboard itself. It would have been nice if they had even included an instruction flyer in Chinese! I would have brought it to Chinatown and had it translated. Anyway, it works for me now. Thanks much to the author for his generosity!
I can verify that pairing works fine with the ThinkOutside Stowaway keyboard. It's a little finicky to set up, but follow the pairing instructions in the Stowaway's instruction manual, and it works great.

The unblanking code that was added to the plugin works, too (usually).

The xmodmap solution (xmodmap -e "keycode 8 = Shift_L") mentioned by agentdr8 circumvenes the function-key problem, so the number keys and symbol keys work fine everywhere.

More importantly, the ThinkOutside Bluetooth keyboard folds (like many other bluetooth keyboards). So I don't have to carry it around like a laptop computer. Everything fits in my pockets. Life is good.