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Greetings everyone.

I managed to put together a perfectly working virtual keyboard that......................................
wait for it, wait for it................................... doesn't crash!

To launch it from the left side the command is:
xkbd -geometry +65536+65536 -k /media/mmc2/x.xkbd

To launch on the right side it's:
xkbd -geometry +722+65536 -k /media/mmc2/x.xkbd


Okay, most likely the first time it fires up, the Upper and Lower cases will be backwards when typing.

If so, press the Caps Lock once (it's just below the red Backspace key) and then close Xkbd.

The next time Xkbd launches, everything should be fixed from then on and you won't have to do this ever again.

My apologies for this keyboard being very minimalist, with not that many keys supported, but it's all that I really need and I like the perfect layout.

Anyway, this was tested on a N800 using the latest 2008 OS.

Post any feedback if needed.

Cheers.

Here's a screenshot:


Grab ArnimS's latest Xkbd version from his site:
http://pupnik.de/xkbd.html

And here's the keyboard layout file:
x.zip

Sweet! now i can use dosbox and qt4 correctly! Betwean that command and the personal menu app i can now easily gain acsess to the modified app by simply putting the command in on the personal menu settings window, select a icon and, putting in a name!
If you allrety have the personal menu app enjoy!
here's my example-


to simplify things, just go to this URL and install personal menu:http://garage.maemo.org/projects/personal-menu/
Then go to control panel> personal menu> add> put name >put in command> select icon> ok.

What did you have to change to get it working?

here's one more example:

I had to do almost nothing really, i just put in the command that was provided from the post in the command to execute bar so it runs as an executable, then select a name and icon.

Oh, I was referring to issues regarding corrupt input.

Hey coffeedrinker. If you're curious about how I got around the corrupt input, you can check out the post I made over in the "Games that work well with Dosbox" in the gaming forum.

Hope that answers your question.

I know you said you would create a seperate keyboard for the missing keys but is it possible to add the ESC & Function Keys onto this keyboard & A ALT that isn't the caps lock?

I wouldn't mind it on a seperate keyboard but you need to have the same xkbd session to use key sequences. Unless you are duplicating keys?

Thank you.

Understand that the actual program for Xkbd is still broken.

Until there's a fix for it or until the next release of the 2008 OS doesn't corrupt whatever is going on, this keyboard layout is just a work around cheat that avoids it from crashing.

I think I've managed to hard reset my tablet about 50 times lately because of the constant crashing. Since using this latest keyboard, it's down to none.

Anyway, the "trick" that I used to avoid Xkbd from crashing looks like it's not compatible with generating an "ALT a", just a capital "ALT A". I'm not too sure if this can be corrected, sorry.

I'll give it a look and see if there's a way for this to happen but it doesn't seem likely. The only solution that I can think of right now would be to create a whole new key for that.

I know the keyboard is small, if any of you want it so that it takes up a bigger chunk of screen real estate, I'm certainly open to suggestions.

Well, I'm currently looking into other options right now, the most likely of cases is to add a second keyboard.

It won't happen today. Thursdays are date night with the wife. *shivers*

Ah, I see..

I cant complain, we actually have a working keyboard thanks to you!

Hehe, my parents are probably the most unromantic couple