New issue 572 by fie...@fievel.be: Enhancement: add an option to change  
input type
http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/issues/detail?id=572

Context:
ConnectBot is a great ssh client but my htc virtual keyboard while great  
for sms and e-mail is definitively not adapted to console work (| is  
available after 3 clicks, no tab, no arrows ...). I found another virtual  
keyboard which correct those problems (hackerskeyboard -  
https://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard) but is less useable for mail and  
sms, so I have to switch often between the two input method (I wrote a very  
tiny application which just show input manager and launch it from a widget  
shortcut).

Proposal:
I propose either to add a menu in connectbot which allow to run input  
manager within connectbot.

It's very simple to tell android to show the input manager dialog :

InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager)  
getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mgr.showInputMethodPicker();