The first step for enabling off-the-spot IME on Pepper on ChromeOS/Linux.

content/renderer/render_widget.cc

Index: content/renderer/render_widget.cc
diff --git a/content/renderer/render_widget.cc b/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
index 54d787b6cb88688d43ebc400020333a554a7cec4..d9802636c750e853589801c9f52476ec0e71b59b 100644
--- a/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
+++ b/content/renderer/render_widget.cc
@@ -1221,13 +1221,11 @@ void RenderWidget::UpdateInputMethod() {
   if (!input_method_is_active_)
     return;
 
-  WebTextInputType new_type = WebKit::WebTextInputTypeNone;
+  WebTextInputType new_type = GetTextInputType();
   WebRect new_caret_bounds;
 
-  if (webwidget_) {
-    new_type = webwidget_->textInputType();
-    new_caret_bounds = webwidget_->caretOrSelectionBounds();
-  }
+  if (webwidget_)
+   new_caret_bounds = webwidget_->caretOrSelectionBounds();
 
   // Only sends text input type and caret bounds to the browser process if they
   // are changed.
@@ -1239,6 +1237,12 @@ void RenderWidget::UpdateInputMethod() {
   }
 }
 
+WebKit::WebTextInputType RenderWidget::GetTextInputType() {
+  if (webwidget_)
+    return webwidget_->textInputType();
+  return WebKit::WebTextInputTypeNone;
+}
+
 WebScreenInfo RenderWidget::screenInfo() {
   WebScreenInfo results;
   Send(new ViewHostMsg_GetScreenInfo(routing_id_, host_window_, &results));