They swap the keys on the new os keybroad. And pulling up on the keys to get the capital letters are next to impossiable. Personally, I prefer to have bigger keys and no number pad. Also I want the word completion tab on the top of the keybroad rather than the bottom.

How can i activate the new thumb-keyboard? I checked everything in my settings, but still the old "small" keyboard appera.

What ist meant by "activate by touchscrenn" and "activate by ...switch" (i forgot the exact name of the checkbox).

@ bsterix

Activate by switch means pressing the middle button on the directional pad. I use to use the standard keyboard, but have learned to ues the thumb keyboard and have not looked back. It makes a huge difference when inputing large amounts of text.

You can change the keyboard layout by editing /usr/share/keyboards/en_US.vkb for the US-english keyboard. It's a pretty convoluted file but if you look at it for a while you'll see where the keys are.
I've attached a modified en_US.vkb file that has the + and - keys reversed. I also moved the _ to the shifted - and moved the ~ to the shifted @.

It works well for me.

Copy the attached file to /media/mmc1

Do this as root:

cd /usr/share/keyboards
cp en_US.vkb en_US.vkb~

this backs up your original file in case you ever want to go back.

cp /media/mmc1/en_US.vkb.txt /usr/share/keyboards/en_US.vkb
chown root:root /usr/share/keyboards/en_US.vkb
chmod 644 /usr/share/keyboards/en_US.vkb

A reboot is needed to use the new layout.

This had me confused for a while. You have to literally touch the screen with your finger, i.e. be contacting a larger part of the screen then just the stylus tip.

As DC says the rocker option does mean the middle button of the direction pad. Personally I would have thought the volume switch on the top edge was a rocker and the four way is a direction pad.

And yes, the upstroke capitalisation has been tweaked now and it seems harder to get right. You can still use the stroking left over the keyboard to backspace and stroking right over the keys for space though.

Simon

thank you so much! i'll give it a try.

They new keyboard is great. Very useful. I have
always left the keyboard clicking sound off, but with the
virtual keyboard, it's a good idea to leave the sounds on.
You can type quite quickly with two flying fingers!


I swore I was not going to upgrade until I was sure my
bluetooth keyboard would come along...but I did it
anyway and spent an entire Sunday playing.

VERY NICE....

Now...if only it had a telephone in it!!!!!!

But seriously...it's a wonderful unit....my favorite feature
remains the Internet Radio.

To add Accucast programs, like the one or two Nokia
includes, just go to Accucast.com and LOOK FOR THE
LINK TO THE MP3 FEEDS!!! Otherwise, you will get
Microsoft Player links that don't work with the 770.

I think you mean AccuRadio.com. AccuCast is a online marketing site.

The link to the Mobile streaming radio is www.accuradio.com/mobile/. Click on the channel and if you like it press the menu button on the 770 then Track/Add to favorites. It adds the channel to the opening screen radio player popup so all you have to do is select it and hit the play button.

I recommend using www.shoutcast.com as the source for finding good radio stations.

Re: The New Full-screen Finger Keyboard
 

hello,
what is needed to edit these vkb files?