Keyboard Toggle
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The Om 2008.8 and Om 2007.2 Openmoko distributions have been designed to bring up an on-screen keyboard which supplies keystroke information to applications. However, this requires the cooperation of the application, which is a problem for software designed with another X11 based phone stack in mind, or software which has been quickly ported from Linux desktop systems, because it will never bring up a keyboard for (possibly important) keystroke information. It is also possible that the keyboard could be brought or remain up by accident when you don't want it there, or even software specifically designed with this functionality in mind may occasionally fail or become confused when an on screen keyboard is supposed to be available.
See Om2008.8 Keyboard for details of the Om 2008.8 keyboard's usage.
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Alternatives
Alternatively, you can try connecting a bluetooth keyboard or USB keyboard (Only available with a special cable, or an extra special cable in the case of the older unpowered USB units.)
Reactivating the keyboard toggle under Om 2008.8
For advanced users using the Om 2008.8 distribution, it may be worth your while to change the E17 theme information which prevents the 'qwerty' link in the upper left from showing.
On the phone
Method 1
Simply install the illume-config theme:
opkg install illume-config
Method 2
Install the tools required to decompile and recompile E17 theme code.
opkg install libevas-saver-png edje-utils cpp cpp-symlinks libembryo-tests
Decompile the theme, and edit the edc file
cd /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes edje_decc illume.edj cd illume vi freerunner.edc
Search for the text 'qwerty'. This should take you to the section which defines the small 'qwerty' button in the upper left.
- Under 'part { name: "kbd";' change 'visible 0;' to 'visible 1;', and change 'relative: 0.0 1.0; ' to 'relative: 1.0 1.0; '
- Under 'part { name: "kbdtext";' change 'visible 0;' to 'visible 1;'
And then recompile the .edj
sh build.sh mv illume.edj ../illume.edj
And finally restart X to take new theme in use
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
Building a custom package
If that doesn't work, follow the instructions on building Om 2008.8 from source. Unpack the source for the package 'illume-theme', edit its edc file using the same method described above, and then finish building the ipk. You should be able to install this ipk, overiding the previous configuration.
Upgrading
If you upgrade, such as with opkg upgrade, you may have to perform the modification again.
In base-image (testing)
The openmoko-base-image installs both illume and asu themes. You can change theme by editing E's profile. To get QWERTY and the wrench back in base-image, you have use the illume theme. So there are 3 steps to do:
sed -i -e s,asu,illume, /etc/enlightenment/default_profile restart X waiting for few seconds