David Hagood wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 18:29 -0400, James Knott wrote: > >> Paul Klapperich wrote: >> Another problem I've encountered, is with remote X apps. On my desktop >> linux systems, I can remotely run apps, via ssh and X. While I can >> start and display those apps on my N800, I can't use the keyboard or >> hand writing recognition to entere anything. This has been part of X >> and Unix/Linux for many years, yet it's broken on the N800. >> > > That's not entirely accurate. Handwriting recognition has never been a > part of the X windowing system, and if you have a Bluetooth keyboard > associated with the N800, you can most definitely run X applications > with keyboard. > > The virtual keyboard/handwriting layer on the N800 is done not at the X > protocol level, but at the GTK level. There's no way for the X server to > "know" that the specific X window you have given focus to is a > "keyboard" type input - the only solution would be for any window which > can accept focus to cause the launch of the virtual keyboard. And note: > what X considers a "window" is not the same as what you or I consider a > window - any button, scroll bar, or just about any focusable object is a > "window" to X. > > Now, if you want to complain about the window manager losing a minimized > window, so that any non-Hildonized program once minimized cannot be > maximized, I'll be right behind you saying Amen! > > > When I use a remote app on my desktop system, the keyboard and mouse work with that application. Why doesn't the N800 "keyboard" follow that, regardless of whether I'm using a virtual keyboard or hand writing. It is generating characters, just like any physical keyboard. Why should there be a difference for what should be an identical function? -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
