On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> Me too.  Its code is nicely organised and easy to read and modify.  I like 
> the transparent overlay approach, and its target of being finger-usable, and 
> the hide/show control by swiping.  And the touchpad idea...

I'm glad to hear it!

>>
>> If only I could find out how to force it
>> to stay on top on my setup so that I wouldn't need to restart it every
>> time I switch a window and want to write something... (I have a button
>> for that in my tihos program).
>
> Yes.  My idea about that is that I'd like the Input Method (IM) system to 
> tell a small server program (which is pretending to be an IM engine) when 
> keyboard input is needed, and then that program could run literki and make 
> sure that it is on top.  Do you think that might work?
>

What setup do you have? I used IceWM, and I remember hacking it to put
windows with override_redirect bit on the top. That gives the user
total control over hiding the keyboard. Some WMs seem to respect this
bit, and it maybe can be considered a bug if the don't.

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