[maemo-developers] hardware keyboard "open" event

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 18:51 +0100, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> 
> > In an application I'm working on, I'd like to show the search tool bar
> > if the user "opens" the hardware keyboard.  Is there a way to detect
> > this?  I've tried searching but have had no success; perhaps I'm using
> > the wrong keywords.
> 
> Run the command
> 
> dbus-monitor --system
> 
> And open the keyboard while watching the output.

The D-Bus messages are part of the internal protocol between libhal and
the HAL daemon, it's better to use libhal or the Gconf key.

-Kimmo