[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] neat device

[From: John Meacham]

I got my nokia 770 the other day and love it. I have already started
porting stuff and am happy to say my jhc haskell compiler can cross
compile to maemo just fine.

In any case, looking at the memory usage, hildon-input-method takes up a
whopping 6.3 megs of real ram along with a decent chunk of x resources
as reported by xrestop. This seems like an absurd amount for the little
pretty cruddy (no offense) onscreen keyboard. it is the second largest
user of memory after the desktop itself!

So I whipped up a little X keyboard which uses a more reasonable tens of
k of RAM, and want to know the absolute shortest path to replacing the
built in input method with it. I know I have to create a gtk-immodule,
but can't find documentation anywhere about how to do that or how to get
rid of hildon-input-method once I create my gtk-immodule. I am very
familier with low level X11 programming, but not so much with gtk
specifics.


Also, what keeps respawning the hildon-input-method? I can kill it
remotely and bask in the extra 6 megs of RAM for a few seconds before it
restarts without me ever trying to actually use the input method.

in any case, neat device. I hope to modify my 'emap' program
http://repetae.net/john/computer/emap/ to provide support for the
fullscreen and menu buttons for arbitrary non-hildonized apps along with
keyboard support as I often use it as an X terminal to run remote
applications. emap also can figure out what program is currently running
so you can have a custom keyboard layout for each program. (xterm in
particular could benefit from a custom layout with nice big ^C and ^D
buttons :) )

any pointers would be appreciated.

        John

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