onscreen or soft keyboard not accessible in application

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using (you can see this by using Menu
-> About in the Host List)?

What type of system are you trying to connect to?

If you are able to connect, what is the output of "echo $TERM", "uname -a",
and any other relevant information on the host?

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by jring...@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2011 at 9:54

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This one is empty, sorry about that, tried to submit via my android device and 
accidently touched the submit button before I could fill anything in.
<BR>(BTW: the main fill in form was apparently not recognized as a fill in 
field from my android device (a vpad7 from viewsonic), the add comment field 
was and I could use the on-screen (virtual keyboard with it) But that is 
another issue)
<BR>Ok thus <B> Steps to reproduce: </B>
<BR>1. connect to a ssh-server, fill in server-name, login password.
<BR>2. successfully connected (I have a welcom message from the server and a 
prompt, when I go out the session back to the main screen of connectbot there 
is a green icon= "connected"), but on-screen keyboard has disappeared, seem 
unable to get it back, unless when I leave the session for the main app or 
another app. 
<BR>3.I can go back to the open session but can't get that on-screen keyboard 
there, I tried touching the screen, I seem able to get some ~~ and ^D to the 
screen but that's all and it is blind.
<BR>4. when I touch the bottom of the screen a keyboard icon appears in the 
right bottom corner and in the left bottom corner there is a CTRL and an ESC 
icon.
<BR>5. the gravitation steered tilt screen works, and it makes no difference in 
behaviour whether I use the portrait or landscape view. 
<P>
<B> Expected Output </B>
<BR>Having an on-screen keyboard in the session, I see pitch black instead.
<P><B>Version</B>
<BR>I tried connectbot 1.7.1 and connectbot-pslib 1.7.1, same problem
<P><B> remote host info= what kind of system</B>
<BR>Linux eowyn 2.6.32-33-generic #70-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 7 21:13:52 UTC 2011 
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
<P><B> more info </B> 
<BR>Output of  "uname -a" see above= it is the top of the welcome message and 
"echo $TERM does not work since I can't type anything.

Original comment by jring...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 9:48

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ok no HTML tags :-)

It concerns a viewpad7 or vpad7 from viewsonic 

Original comment by jring...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 9:49

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I installed the andriod app "hackers keyboard" must change the input method, 
but that is described in the help of hackers keyboard.
This works fine best in landscape but also in portrait mode

Original comment by jring...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 10:28

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this is the link

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard

Original comment by jring...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 10:29