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

No. It should not be too hard but I am not going to do it. It works for me on scratchbox, and I do not intend to try on the N900 itself, as I prefer to touch the screen as little as possible.

I am not really interested in this feature, and only happened to do it because I was looking at the relevant code when I saw a request for more desktops, and it was easy to do. More debugging of this issue will have to be done by someone who actually cares about this feature. Once such someone starts working on it she might also implement other related features which are not too hard - such as desktops arranged in two dimensions instead of one.

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

Thought of this. Good you made yourself clear.

As I know a lil' to nothing when it comes to coding, I hope someone picks this up and keeps on working on Desktop-Expansion stuff...

Could you post your source or could you link us to the hildon-home, hildon-desktop source files ?

regards

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

The source for the packages is available from the repositories. Source for my changed packages is in my source repository:

http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/repo/source/

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

I didn't find the source for your modified-hildon-desktop 2.0
what's the version you say we should go with?

You remember the files and lines that are relevant for 4+ desktops?

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

i think the black backgrounds r due to cache as i tried all da other possibilities but still got it black but when i cleared everythin from home/user/.backgrounds includin cache den it worked for me :D
i used EMELFM2 to delete the cache.......install nd go to this directory nd delete everythin --> home/user/.backgrounds
dont panic as ur screen will become black but u can just select any pic nd set as background for each nd i hope it will work fine as it did for me ;)
here is da link to download EMELFM2 --> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1571032/Mae...ps/Emelfm2.deb

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

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Originally Posted by m.r.a.haak (Post 767544)

I had the same problem took me about one hour to find out what to do. But this worked for me :

1) follow these instructions : http://maemobriefs.blogspot.com/2010...e-screens.html

2) make sure the package rootsh is installed and run the following commands in xterm:

sudo gainroot

cd /home/user/MyDocs

wget http:// my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n900/hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

dpkg -i hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

3) in xterm :

gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

you can change the number of the desktop you want the image attached to by changing the 5 into a 6, a 7 , a 3 or whatever. F.e.

for changing desktop nr 6. :

gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/6/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

hope this works for you!

Found an easier way. If you use WinSCP that is. I prefer that a million times more to having to type commands in. Just open WinSCP and then browse to the folder home/user/.backgrounds/

Then just copy and paste whichever pictures you want into that folder with the pictures being called background-1.png; background-2.png; etc up to background-9.png

EDIT: Just in case this is not clear this is describing an easy way to change the background pictures for all the 9 desktops. Desktops 1 to 4 are staightforward to do from the edit screen but 5 to 9 cannot be changed that way.

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

I have made this modification, Works great, I have 7 desktops.
Will LiveWallpaper works with it ?
Has anybody tried this ?

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

I have had 9 desktops running just fine for a while now with no issues (though I only use 6). However, I installed the Faster kinetic scrolling in app menu (PR1.2) mod. Now my extra desktops are no longer working. They are showing in the manage views screen and I have selected all 9 desktops but still only 4 are showing. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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

You can't have both modified hildon-desktop and faster kinetic hildon-desktop, only one of them. The last you installed is the one you have, so if you install faster kinetic, you lose the enhancements of modified, and if you then reinstall modified, the kinetic speed will return to the default.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matan (Post 794857)

That is a huge shame. I figured that this may be the case. Having more than 4 desktops and changing desktops with keyboard was much more important than faster kinetic strolling so I was trying to find a way to revert back to modified hildon home but could not find how to. Eventually worked out that it was "apt-get --reinstall install modified-hildon-desktop".

So I have my 6 desktops up and running once more. Yaay!