So im looking for a keyboard that will do this while in tablet only mode and a terminal shell that will do this in keyboard dock mode, mainly for irssi. (yes i want to do this with keyboard attached or without)
ive tried a few different keyboards so far, swiftkey, hackerskeyboard, default, swype nothing really fancy yet.. and connectbot irssi and better terminal emulator.
so far all ive found is that connectbot irssi i can swipe the screen left and right to emulate the alt-1 alt-2 type keyboard commands.
hackerskeyboard i had high hopes for but i get nothing out of its alt key behaviour in irssi.
any suggestions?
did i maybe miss some sort of a setting somewhere in hackerskeyboard or better terminal emulator?
is there a terminal that recognizes the alt key on the physical keyboard?
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I recently started using shapewriter on my Nexus one. Not really sure why it gets a bad wrap since after I got used to it, I can type about twice as fast with fewer errors as using a regular soft keyboard or keyboard replacement which was welcome since I lost my HW G1 keyboard switching to Nexus. And hell it's free and legal. But I had a couple of quick questions in case anybody else on here uses it.
1. Sometimes I want to use the regular android keyboard for apps like terminal, is there a menu key to let me switch to the android keyboard. On the regular keyboard it's just hold down 123 button and switch inputs. I can't seem to find an equivalent in shapewriter unless I go back to the android settings page and shutoff shapewriter manually in there.
2. anyway to set a gesture to launch the voice input stuff since there isn't a voice input shortcut on the keyboard.
Thanks!
~Bryan
I'm looking for a keyboard that has the secondary characters over the primary ones as well as the voice input key.
I didn't like shapewriter and better keyboard seems to be missing the voice input keys.
Like the stock keyboard, but hate having to push a seperate key to get numbers and then again for the letters.
To change the keyboard just hold down on the text field until the menu pops up and select input method
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To change the keyboard just hold down on the text field until the menu pops up and select input method
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That is a very useful tip and almost exactly what I need. The one app that tip doesn't seem to work for is terminal, which is the app I mainly need to switch back to the stock keyboard as it is the only one supported. or perhaps I should find a better terminal program.
Though its not as good as the HTC IME keyboard with a Voice to Text, a Long press on '.' will bring up a menu to select punctuation. I just found this out yesterday.
I'm using the free Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich) from the marketplace. I'm experiencing some problems and wondered if I was alone. Of course I tried to uninstall and re-install the app.
When using the physical keyboard within the Terminal Emulator and I hit the button used for the question mark and forward slash [? /] it will type one of these instead "~". I don't know the technical name for that one; it's the squiggly line next to the 1. I get the squiggly line whether i hit that button normal for a question mark AND when I hit alt to try to type a forward slash.
Ok so the great thing about the MT4GS is that we have more than one keyboard method so when in the terminal emulator I thought I'd be smart and use the soft keyboard insead. While using the soft keyboard I don't have the "squiggly line problem" but whenever I type "if" it will type "If" instead with a capital I. So in order to use Terminal Emulator, I had to switch back and forth between the soft and physical keyboard.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Is there another emulator you are using that you can recommend instead?
Thanks
Yeah I noticed that exact same problem. Frustrating, and I'm sure if you turn off word prediction for the soft keyboard it would probably stop automating the "If," so it's worth a try. But I couldn't get the "/" to work either with the qwerty.
Thanks for checking.
I unchecked word prediction in the phone settings and it didn't help. I Cleared Data for the Teminal Emulator App too. Also unckecked word prediction for Swype even though I wasn't using that. I didn't see an option to turn off word prediction within the app itself though.
Thanks for your your help. Hopefully, an update will be released to help with the physical keyboard in the app.
I'll play around more with settings to see if i can get the soft keyboard work better.
Ok the soft keyboard even capitalizes "I" if it's in the middle of a word.. For example "fIx permIssIons" *shrug* I don't think there is a setting I can change to fix that.
Long press in any text field entry (except Terminal emulator), and select "input method", select "touch input" and use the soft keyboard to enter commands in TE.
For some reason, you can't use any alt functions on the hardware keyboard, so everything has to be typed with either swype (which can get frustrating unless you're a pro), or the stock keyboard. Good luck!
Thanks, that worked!!
Making a local session in ConnectBot (also free, connect as any dummy username @localhost) works better for me than Android Terminal Emulator ever did. It is a little quirky with the MT4GS keyboard (it double maps the bucky keys, so you have to hold shift and alt instead of press-press like everywhere else), and there are a handful of useful symbols I can't figure out how to make ('|', '<' and '>' in particular), but it has been comparatively solid.
Hello.
I'm interested in a Transformer Prime pad, but don't have one (yet…? ), so, please pardon the question… Anyway…
Is the keyboard from the KeyDock also usable (as a keyboard…), if the display isn't docked in?
Oh, and if the keyboard is used, does Android then also display the (in this case) useless on screen keyboard when text is entered? I hope not…
Lastly, I'm interested in the keyboard layout; how many keys does it have? Does it also have a <ctrl> key? It would be awesome, if somebody could please post a picture of the keyboard (or a link to one…).
I'm asking, because I'd like to figure out, how feasible it might be, to use the thing as a SSH client (using e.g. ConnectBot).
Thx,
Alexander
No, no, lots (could you not look at a picture?), yes. Connectbot works okay, but key combos don't always work. ConnnectBot needs to be updated for full support
Thx for the quick response!
I suppose connecting a Bluetooth keyboard to it would work, wouldn't it?
I know, I'm getting Off Topic, but… How about a USB and/or Bluetooth mouse? On YouTube, I found the video "How to Use a Bluetooth Mouse With the Acer Iconia A500", which shows that BT keyboard & mouse work with 3.1 — on the Acer device. How about Asus?
And, if mouse works, is copy/paste in ConnectBot as easy as it is on a "proper" Linux xterm or as in PuTTY?
Thanks again,
Alexander
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I use a bluetooth keyboard with Connectbot, and yes the stupid on-screen keyboard appears, but pressing the Back softkey (or Esc on the keyboard, in my case,) hides it.
Key combos don't work for me, because Ctrl is not passed into the app, I think that's my S3 being dumb, but the Menu key on the keyboard brings up the menu with copy/paste and other options, so that at least is OK.
I think a mouse would technically work, but most apps are designed for touch-only, so I don't know if they would handle a mouse correctly. And it would probably be an app-by-app question.
Is there any way to get the function key to work with the keyboard dock ?
The function key are replaced with android functions. This is nice, but when i'm using a terminal emulation, or any other app, how can i use the Functions keys F1-F10 without the use of a software key ?
You would need a terminal or software that supports mapping the keys accordingly. If you know what it sends, BTEP allows customizing what the Back, Search, Volume +, Volume -, Camera, and Focus keys send but we don't have the last two but AFAIK no body supports our other buttons.
In practice it's not wise to use the function keys for a terminal based program, unless you are sure you will be using a terminal that has them!
AFAIK the VT100 and VT220 terminals that are commonly emulated didn't have true function keys but did have something vaguly like F1 to F4; what stuff like XTerm and Screen do to make F1-F12 work is sort of a lie that happens to works with the right stuff. So YMMV even on PCs.
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I use ConnectBot and it works really well. The functions keys are returned corectly as well. My only problem is that when using the keyboard dock, i can't type the f keys, i need to unplug the keboard, then use the software keyboard (ESC Hackers keyboard) and then select the Function keys.
Is there any way to get the function key to work with the keyboard dock ?
The Function Keys
OK.. i found them
CTRL + number
so F1= CTRL+1, F2= CTRL+2 etc..
thanks
And can somebody tell, .. plz, ..
How on physical clave switch between the languages?
Combination from Win don't work :-(
On Tachie panel any layout working and all the switches, as usual .. And switch languages on the dock clave is not found ..
The result is not fun to sit with the dock, and print on Tachie ..
Thnks
Hello,
I have found that when I remote desktop to my Windows PC, that when i mean to type the following on the android keyboard I get the following symbol on the PC
(the character I want [what's on the Windows keyboard]) = (the key i type on the Android Keyboard)
'=#
@=~
#=\
~=|
\=+
|=+
for example with the first one
I press what looks like the ' key on my android key board and a # key is displayed on my screen
How can I go about fixing these? It works for all the other keys I have tested
The android keyboard has the same labels/layout-ish as the keyboard I use on my PC ( " above the 2) so they are both UK (i think)
Also within Android Apps, pressing those keys produces the desired character/symbol
I would really appreciate your help, it's not a vitally awful be all and end all disaster, but a bit annoying
Cheers,
--jr--