maemo.org - Talk - * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

maemo.org - Talk (https://talk.maemo.org/index.php)

- Maemo 5 / Fremantle (https://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=40)

- - * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread * (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39565)

Re: N900 MODs - share your MODs!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parlapipas (Post 752358)

Hey buddy. Your original transitions.ini file is in /usr/share/hildon-desktop. If you replace this one with any modified one, you will have modified transitions for any theme you choose. The only thing is the performance will vary from theme to theme.

If you only want to modify the transitions of a specific theme, then you need to go into your theme folder and edit the transitions.ini file in /opt/usr/share/themes/YOUR THEME (which is the name of the theme you are using.

Keep in mind though that if you do that, every time your theme has an update, you will need to go there afterward and re-edit the transitions.ini file.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: text removed. Corrected by D-Iivil below.

Thanks both of you (D-livil inc),
That i what I was getting confused with and all clear now. I couldn't find one under the Alpha theme though did find the hildon-desktop transitions file. I don't use themes and settle with the one, so will replace the hildon one.
Not sure about most though only every really change the wallpapers etc so found that if I set it as liked, icons, wallpapers etc.
Then back up, change to another, back up. Easiest to simply restore and wella. Saves the extra root space used storing themes.
lol

Darklar,
Thanks mate, I was probably not clear in my posts.
All good now :)

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

Guys,
Can anyone assist me. I have my current folder structure as: MyDocs/.documents/N900 (folders under that).
I wish to relocate it to:
MyDocs/N900 (folders under that)
So I am moving it up one path, how do I do this is X-Terminal?
I also wish to keep the exact folder structure as in current location.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parlapipas (Post 751032)

Maximus, just pick your favorite wallpaper and on your PC and save it four times as wallpaper1, wallpaper2 etc. Then create the desktop file mentioned on the bottom of this page (http://nokia-n900.com/n900-backgroun...r-by-yourself/) and use the same names you used for the wallpapers. Then dump all 5 files (4 wallpapers and 1 desktop file) in your images folder on your N900. Now when you go to change background you will see the name of the file you created there.

Hope this helped.

That's what I did, but I don't want my wallpaper to move. I want it to stay fixed. Like the background on an android or iphone. Just one wallpaper without moving when sliding.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

I hope this will one day included into the maemo5 OS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z51-...eature=related

Would be nice to do rotation like the video lol.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

That does look pretty amazing!
Would be sweet to have that much control, response and power at your finger tips.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coffee (Post 753469)

I'm thinking you need to be root but I might be mistaken, and then use the mv command in terminal;

Code:

sudo gainroot

mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/N900/* /home/user/MyDocs/N900

That should do the trick Coffee mate :D

If it doesn't (and I'm still earning this lark) try the following:

Code:

cd /home/user/MyDocs

mkdir N900

mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/N900/* /home/user/MyDocs/N900

HTH

Re: N900 MODs - share your MODs!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by f2thak (Post 457128)

WARNING: CHANGING THIS FILE OTHER THAN WHAT I ADVISE MAY BRICK YOUR DEVICE, I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE IF U BRICK UR DEVICE!!

How to enable Reboot button?
plus more..

in power button settings!

When you press the Power button, a menu is shown containing options to e.g. Switch off or lock the device. And what if you just want to reboot it? Sure, you can use the "Switch off" function and then just press the Power button again to turn the N900 back on. But it can be made simpler and quicker as you can add a separate "Reboot" button to the menu, which will automatically reboot the device without you having to do anything.

All you need to do is to edit one config file and "uncomment" its part responsible for showing the button, disabled by default.

In order to do this, you will to:

* Download and install rootsh from the Extras repository, which will give you root access in the X-Terminal
* Download and install Midnight Commander, the well known file manager which also contains a convenient text editor.

Now the actual modification:

Launch X-Terminal
* type sudo gainroot to enable root access
* type mc to launch Midnight Commander
* in the Midnight Commander, using the keyboard arrows, browse to the /ect/systemui/ folder and select the systemui.xml file
* make a copy of that file, just in case that you do something wrong, so that you can simply restore its original version anytime
* tap the 4 Edit button (at the bottom) to open the text editor
* at the bottom of the file you will notice that part of it (consisting of three ... entries) is disabled within the "comment" marks (starting ).
* move the "comment" marks mentioned above "<!--" (e.g. by deleting and re-typing them in other place) so that the two remaining entries ("Soft poweroff" and "Top in XTerm") are still within them but the "Reboot" entry gets outside of them
* tap 10 Quit button at the bottom of the editor and confirm in the requester that you want to save the file (if you don't see the 10 Quit button you may need to change the X-Terminal font size to 10)
* exit Midnight Commander, close X-Terminal and reboot the device
* after the N900 reboots, you should see the new "Reboot" option in the Menu.

When using the X-Terminal with root access enabled, be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS! Root access enables you to modify (and thus also DAMAGE) all system files, which can even result in BRICKING the device. If you don't know what you are doing, better don't do it.

you should cd to /etc/systemui NOT /ect/systemui !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I have to say thx all the same.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

Quote:

Originally Posted by Switch_ (Post 753558)

I'm thinking you need to be root but I might be mistaken, and then use the mv command in terminal;

Code:

sudo gainroot

mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/N900/* /home/user/MyDocs/N900

That should do the trick Coffee mate :D

If it doesn't (and I'm still earning this lark) try the following:

Code:

cd /home/user/MyDocs

mkdir N900

mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/N900/* /home/user/MyDocs/N900

HTH

/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/N900

Thanks mate,
I myself am trying to get by using the simplest of code.
I made the folder using mkdir, no problem!
when trying to copy from one location to the other via cp, it returned ''omitting directory''. strangely move via mv command worked.

Re: * The Truly Epic Maemo 5 MODs Thread *

Guys,
does anyone have any black key/ coloured text or coloured key/ black or white text calculator or phone dial pad they would be so kind to share?
Can you and if so how. Change the background of the music applet under mediaplayer?
regarding the media player, i changed it's background, thank you. i did notice the default flicks up first and then my one loads over. this suggests the real one is loaded elsewhere and then searching for theme options. hope it makes sense, where is the default found to change?

Re: N900 MODs - share your MODs!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggzy (Post 457294)

ok i need to know howto save the file iv edited in xterm and how do i remove blank lines of text also? thanx

edit, almost done...
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7...0010713510.png
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/s...png/1/w800.png

but lots of blank space

first press ESC
then :wq
now you save what you have done