Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

nice news but it is too buggy I think too many different things to do in the whole thread to do it just like that :(

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

The information in that blog post is not entirely correct. If you want to be able to set different background for all 9 views, you also need to install an enhanced version of hildon-home. Instructions for this are somewhere in this thread.

Also, "nabeel - n900/images/01.jpg" is not a correct path.

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

bunch of warnings not to use this app in that link, its old and cant be updated (paraphrasing whats on the page in the comments section) just wait till some one makes a app for it i would suggest. or ask some one to do it

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

You don't know what you are talking about.

The version that should not be used is the one in extras-devel (which has been removed from that repository, since then).

The version in my repository is current, supported (in the sense that I fix bugs if found), and is perfectly safe. It works just like hildon-desktop, and you can only enable the extra features you are interested in.

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

woaaa... easy turbo.. remember i typed "(paraphrasing whats on the page in the comments section)" i just saw a question and answered it. i didnt check the dates on it. but i would hope that anyone going to install this or anything for that matter would investigate more. I was scared off by the first few comments on that page. but yes i agree, i dont know first hand what i am talking about. just passing on some of the info from that ink to save folks a click and a bunch of comments.

But since it's perfectly safe as you say that is awesome!

Now i wanna go back and try and download

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

hello Matan!

i love the modded hildon desktop congrats!
I just need some help, im a beginner at x terminal, i got the command for the extra desktops working BUT im not understanding what to put in the path for the background,

im putting /.barbalonga/images/05.jpeg but its not taking the command, so i guess im specifying the path for the pic in a wrong way. can you please help?

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

This command to activate the specific image on the screen no' 5:
gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/your_picture.jpg

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

That is what I am doing, but the background remains black. My drives name is .barbalonga and there is a folder in it called images, inside there is a pic called 01.jpeg.

when i run that command with the same line you posted except 01.jpeg in the pics name it remains black.

when i run the command with /.barbalonga/images/01.jpeg it still remains black.

what am i doing wrong?

Thank you for your help :-)

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

If your folder ".barbalonga" is located inside the folder "images", you should write:

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/barbalonga/your_picture.jpg

If your folder ".barbalonga" is located outside the folder "images", you should write:

gconftool -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/barbalonga/your_picture.jpg

Re: [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !
 

Thank you again for replying!

I tried the above, the background is still black. Lets say im going to the file through the file manager:

.Barbalonga --> Images --> 01.jpeg

so i wrote:

the command followed by /home/user/MyDocs/.Barbalonga/Images/01.jpeg

still wrong?