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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

Just tried your commands. They do indeedly work. However, something I noticed: I went into X-Term, typed the code to enable the default vkb, ran it, ran killall hildon-input-method, closed the hardware keyboard, and pressed on the screen. Normal keyboard came up fine. Then I hid the keyboard by clicking outside it, opened up the hardware one, and did the code to enable the new portrait compatible one. Upon hitting enter for "killall hildon-input-method", X-Term crashed, saying "Internal Error. Application 'T-Term closed." I reopened X-Term, closed HWK, and pressed the screen, and the new VKB came up - SO, the commands worked perfectly, but I'm wondering if anyone knows why it behaved like that.

Just tried doing ONLY the code to switch to standard keyboard. X-Term crashed at entering "killall hildon-input-method" again. (But it did revert to the virtual keyboard again).

And just tried again with only the code to go back to this portrait compatible one. Same error again. (Keyboard went to the new one just fine.)

And tried "killall hildon-input-method" by itself. X-Term crashed again.

It's not horribly bad, and everything seems to still work, but it's annoying.

(Before hitting submit I rebooted N900 and tested again - no change. X-Term crashed upon "killall hildon-input-method".)

Originally Posted by godofwar424

Yhh I have noticed this as well!

Thing is it works and does not harm anything. TBH its hepful because it means you dont need to close xTerm everytime

I have made 2 scripts one for Default layout and one for the Portrait layout

I have also made two application shortcuts that can be placed on the desktop to switch between each layout by activating the scripts

If you want I will upload and link to them? Let me know

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

But do you know why it does this? I would love a technical explanation for what happens at the deeper software level that causes X-Term to crash after the second time running the commands? Do you think it was caused by running both switches in a row in one X-Term session? Or is it something that was initially caused by switching to the new keyboard, and the both-in-one-section thing had nothing to do with it?

Originally Posted by godofwar424

Alrite uploading them know will update this post when they are online


EDIT: Here is the linke to the files! I have included a readme incase you are unsure of what to do. Pm me if you have any problems

KeyboardSwitcher.rar

Originally Posted by jipee296

thanks so much for this.. do i have to reboot everytime i switch keyboard? because when i clicked the default icon, its still on the portrait mode