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Does anyone know a good PC-style keyboard for tablets?

Especially one that can send stuff like Ctrl+C to terminal emulators or to XSDL?

Are you looking for software (on-screen) keyboard or hardware keyboard?

Hacker's keyboard* is the go to keyboard if you are looking for a soft keyboard and want to work with terminals & SSH clients.

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...

On-screen. Very cool, thanks for the hint - the problem is that I don't want that keyboard for all the other apps. Can I pin a specific keyboard to a specific app (i.e. Hacker's keyboard to sshdroid + XSDL, and Google Keyboard to the rest)?

Nope, there can be only one active IME at a time: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-inp...

I'm not sure how well this works on newer versions of Android (probably not at all), but you used to be able to use a Tasker application context and the Secure Settings System+ module to automatically switch the IME depending on what application was active.

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