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Its funny, I was shopping online for about an hour for compact htpc keyboard/mouse combos and I completely forgot about this app!

I am very impressed with the mouse performance, but I am surprised that the hw keyboard desnt work for me out of the box.

After skimming through this thread I had read many posts of a fix for the earlier versions that involved opening up the power menu and closing it to enable the hw keyboard, then later posts explaining that the issue was fixed and even on the changelog for 0.3 it states that:

"BlueMaemo v0.3 Changelog:

* Added support for the hardware keyboard in all profiles"

Anyways, I would really appreciate if anyone could explain how to get the hw keyboard function working.

As well, I couldn't seem to use the volume keys for the left and right clicking, is this function available? Otherwise how can you drag or highlight?

Again this is a very impressive app! Saved me about 50 bucks

Thanks for such a great app!

Is bluemaemo already on the standard application list? or still on dev?

Joseph, it's still in devel I'm afraid. Lordnibbla, the power button hw keyboard fix was a general keyboard focus fix for many apps that no longer works since PR1.2 I think.
Take a look at my dead thread for a workaround if you have easy debian it's a lot easier to fix:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66215

P.S. You can use the "hold" button at the bottom of the screen if you want to drag

Thanks. Do we know when Bluemaemo could be released to standard application? Or, how complex is it to install devel level for someone who has no programming knowledge?

i wouldnt mind it workin in the first place never managed to get it going with my ps3 , never tryed it with any other bluetooth stuff . .

I'm not sure I understand?
Blue-maemo is already an application that you can install easily via the app manager but it is in the devel repository so it isn't actually meant for general use yet. I'm not sure when the author plans to move it to testing.

It already works relatively well but as with anything in the devel repository it comes with a warning that it may break things forcing you to reflash your device. If you still want to go ahead with it, the instructions to enable the extras-devel repository are here

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel

any chance you can add wifi connection to this app? wud be sick

I've managed to make it work for the PS3 but I've noticed that I have to pair it every time for it to connect successfully. This may be related to the same problem with my linux box where the bluetooth must be set to "visible" for it to connect. AFAIK the PS3 isn't visible unless you're pairing a device, so that may explain it, but I may be wrong.

It is not complex, you only have to add Extras-devel repository. If you want to try, I suggest you to add the repo, install BlueMaemo and then remove the repo.
I can't get BlueMaemo to work anymore after PR1.3, maybe you will be more lucky...

Thanks so much for the reply Cue! As for your fix, I need to install easy debian over again as I had just recently received my refurbed N900 from Nokia and had to start from scratch. But I will try it when I do install that.

But as for the script that your other post mentions:

I read the topic X keyboard input focus on N900 and from what I could understand this fix needs to be applied every time you want to use the hw keyboard on bluemaemo? please correct me if I'm wrong, because I would love to be wrong in this case

Other than that, I only mentioned the volume toggle because in researching this app I thought that I had read somewhere that it could be used as the left and right click. But of course I could be mistaken.

Thanks again for all your help.