Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Im sure this has been asked before but I cannot find an answer after searching through 16+ pages of searches.

I love the full screen thumb board but I cannot figure out how to do a tab for tab completion. It is a pain to have to switch back to the small screen just to hit tab. Any suggestions?

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Welcome to the forum, Micah.

You basically have three choices here.

Hack the full screen keyboard and change one of the keys to a Tab key.

Use Xmodmap and temporarily change one of your hardware buttons to a Tab key.

Or permanently alter one of your hardware buttons by editing your rx-44 file.

Tell me which one you prefer and I'll help you out. :)

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Thanks for the warm welcome!!

I would prefer to change the full size keyboard. That way I dont lose one of the hardware keys.

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Okay.

What key would you like replaced?

Also, what language are you using for the keyboard?

I'll post back a solution/file for you tomorrow night. :)

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Thank you!! Thank you!!

I would like to replace the ' in the ^abc tab. Im using english.

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

So you don't want an apostrophe key anymore?

Is that correct?

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Yeah. The key to the right of the p and above the /. If I need an apostrophe there is also on numbers tab.

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Okay then.

Give me a day on this since it will be my first time attempting to hack the keyboard.

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

Awesome! No problem. I can wait. I just got my n800 yesterday so im still just messing around with it.

Re: Tab button for the thumb keyboard on a n800
 

This is turning out to be much more difficult than what I thought it would be.

I'm not finding anything on what to type in the en_US.xml file so I can compile it back to a .vkb file that will be usable.

Right now, clicking on the Tab key just types out the word Tab.

Probably not what you want here. :)

I emailed the author so maybe I'll hear back from him or perhaps someone else here can jump in and help.

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