Thread: N770: Experienced beginner questions
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lardman is offline lardman
2007-10-11 , 22:41
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1) When working in vi in xterm, navigating around the text is difficult because the virtual keyboard doesn't have any cursor keys. I know I can use the main keyboard, but I'm not used to this. Also, the dash is on the symbol layout, as is the tilde, and it's a pain to keep switching. Is there a more xterm-friendly virtual keyboard replacement? And what about Ctrl or Alt?
The ability to send ctrl+character should be one of the menu items.

6) Is there a way to make File Manager see the root file system, rather than just the user-friendly Documents view?
Create a symlink to /

Beware the metacrawler though (assuming the 770 has this (mis-)feature).

7) Is there a way of genuinely rebooting the 770 from the GUI? I know I can use reboot or shutdown from root, but when I choose Switch Off from the menu, it only seems to soft reboot.
If you have the power unplugged it will shutdown properly.

9) I tried installing the dropbear package but, although it installed, when I typed ssh at the prompt I got command not found. Is there a good SSH server/client package?
openssh - you need to enable the "red pill mode" then install from the maemo repo.


Simon