Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext James Knott" <james.knott at rogers.com> writes: > > >> Further on this. As an experiment, I just installed xvkbd on my main >> system, running the KDE desktop. I then connected to another system via >> ssh and started an application. I am able to use the xvkbd virtual >> keyboard to type into OpenOffice on the remote system. This is >> precisely the result I'm looking for on the N800. Please tell me again >> how it's impossible to use a virtual keyboard for this, when I'm able to >> do so here. >> > > I think he says that there is no way for the N800 to know when to show > and when to hide the virtual keyboard. That is true, but only a minor > problem. We can leave it to the user to show and hide the keyboard as > needed. Toolkits like Gtk+ can provide extra hints to the keyboard, > but if there are no hints coming, the user should still be able to > show and hide it explicitly. > Exactly. If that was available, I'd be able to do what I want. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>