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-   -   Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900 (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47812)

egoshin 2010-03-19 23:14
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by wongdong (Post 573962)
- You can open the keyboard, press a button and it brings up contacts beginning with that letter (Yepp i didn't know that before).
Oh! Thank you - very cool!

egoshin 2010-03-19 23:17
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by amh (Post 574008)
ctrl shift x to bring up a terminal on the other hand is insanely awkward. Try it.
Excellent!

Bazza 2010-03-19 23:18
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nibbles (Post 574053)
put both thumbs of either side of the desktop and release 1 thumb for quick desktop transition
I may be wrong but does that mean that the touch screen is capable of multi-touch??

amh 2010-03-19 23:20
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
I don't think so, just tricks it into thinking you've swiped across the desktop very quickly.

rmerren 2010-03-19 23:25
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Open the camera door and it goes straight to the camera app. (That's an obvious one, but I like the thread and wanted to add to it.)

When in the browser, use the volume rocker switch to zoom in and out.

Bazza 2010-03-19 23:30
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by amh (Post 574088)
I don't think so, just tricks it into thinking you've swiped across the desktop very quickly.
Surely it must be picking up 2 pressure signals?:confused:

I thought the n900 was incapable of multi-touch.

amh 2010-03-19 23:38
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazza (Post 574101)
Surely it must be picking up 2 pressure signals?:confused:

I thought the n900 was incapable of multi-touch.
When you touch the screen in multiple places i think it just gets interpreted as a single contact, the location of which depends on where your fingertips are and how much pressure they exert.

The device has no idea how many fingers there are however, or their individual locations, just the combined reading. At least that's how i think it works.

Try playing around with it

Bazza 2010-03-19 23:45
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Can anyone clear this up for us?

nidO 2010-03-19 23:47
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
When you touch the screen in two places, the screen will interpret them as a single touch, in the average position of your two touches. So, touching the two edges of the screen is seen by the device as a single touch in the centre of the screen. Releasing one thumb is then seen as a (correct) single touch at the point where your remaining thumb is.
Thus, what the device sees by this is your touch swiping instantly from the centre of the screen to one edge, which swipes to that edge's desktop.

Fargus 2010-03-19 23:52
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Something a lot of people don't seem to know is that pressing Ctrl+Shift+P snapshots the current screen to the images folder on the device.


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