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

Information Overload, Do we have a WIKI on this.. Tough to follow up in the thread!!

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

pls any 1 help me......

all desktop r working perfectly.................. but when i changing wallpaper it does not changing...... pls any 1 tell me how can i change wallpaper........ only 1st 4 desktop changing but newly add hildon desktop not changing wallpaper.... but other feature is wok perfectly



pls reply me here or mail me kawsarhossain@gmail.com

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

Try searching, this has been covered many many times!

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

HI, I was able to add 2 new extra desktop using this method with ease. There is a big problem with this method though [just hope this is not the only way to do it]. If you take out the battery of your n900 and let the phone reset it's settings.

:confused::confused:
It will automatically remove the extra desktop you added. Is there anyway to, create a profile which can then be set to default(holding the information of the extra desktops) and will be automatically loaded even when the phone is rebooted completely?

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

This may have been covered already in this thread, but I'll put it in again. A solidly working way of adding wallpapers to each of the 9 home screens is to add the wallpaper files to
/home/user/.backgrounds
and name them as background-1, background-2, etc. One for each screen.
Whenever you set a wallpaper through other means, it seems to me that the file gets copied to this folder and named "background-[number]".

I too saw the demonstration video of 9 home screens and vertical/diagonal swipes, yet ended up disappointed when I found out that it was a fake.

Nevertheless, I made a set of 9 simple black background .pngs, each with a small grid on the top right corner indicating which screen of the 3x3 you are in, mainly to provide an idea on which way to swipe to get to where you are going to. It's not that useful now, but I'll keep dreaming :>

The top right corner of home screens isn't used by anything, right? Even widgets can't be put there?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4352287/grid/background-1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4352287/grid.zip

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

With the two screen selector widgets the 3x3 grid is much less necessary. Would still be a nice option to have of course.

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

I'm facing a major problem here. I was priviously able to add up to 7 dekstops. I used WinSCP to do the job. Anyway as i stated in my privious reply, Where i had removed the battery to my phone which in turn reseted all the settings in my phone. When that happend, the extra desktops were gone.

Now i cant re-add them, for some reason they just wont appear after i have executed the command. I also redownloaded the costome hildon once again and tried it. Unfortunately the outcome was the same. No extra desktops.

Can you or anyone here help me fix this problem?

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

Are you using the programs that solve this sort of problem? As I recall, they are called Desktop+ and Desktop-switcher.

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

EDIT: Have 9 now but for some reason can only select up to 5 in manage views. Anyway I want 9 so that's fine. WIsh there was an easy way to do this. Thought there was a desktop plus app. What happened to it?


Agghh! I had 9 desktops before but just got a new N900. Can someone point me how to get 9 desktops? I have spent like an hour looking for the answer without success. Is there a wiki or something? I know I have the modfied desktop because I can use the arrow keys to change screens. I have entered this command in xterminal but it made no difference:

gconftool-s / t apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/9/bg-image-string "/ path / to / background.jpg"
gconftool-s / apps / osso / hildon-desktop / views / active-t list - list-type int [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]

Okay for some reason I can have 5 screens now but no more. I also replicated command gconftool-s / t apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/9/bg-image-string "/ path / to / background.jpg" replacing 9 with 5, 6,7,8 each time but still only 5 screens.

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

Moving on. I can help you fix your background problem just follow this steps.

1. Download and install WinSCP. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wins...p.exe/download
2. Download and install the Following:

• Download Mad Developer from app manager (make sure you have extras and extras-testing on)

• Download Open SSH Server and client and also SSH Status and Switcher from (app manager)
  NOTE: Remember the password you enter when installing SSH server or Mad Developer.
  • If you forget your password do the following steps.
    
    
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    Open xTerminal sudo gainroot (assuming you have installed rootsh) passwd

    Now enter your new password [You wont be able see what you are typing. So make it short and easy to remember]
    

3. Moving on. After you have done all the installing, run WinSCP and Mad Developer on your phone (make sure your Wifi is turn on in your phone, and you are connected to the Internet.).

4. Now run MadDeveloper it should show you, your phone ip.

5. Make sure you turn on your SSH server. Do that by tapping on the status applet on top (just tap the battery icon) and you should see "SSH Server OFF". Tap it and it should turn on.

6. Now when you have turned on your SSH server. Go back to Mad developer and tap on the Developer Password button.Remember this is importent. Remember do not press cancel. Just let it run. Now you can put your phone a side.

7. Go back to Win SCP and you sould see the first text box called "host name". Now just enter the ip (wLan0) you see in your mad developer in to that box. Eg. 192.168.0.100.

8.To the password field. Enter the following :
9. Hit login. Now an empty field will open up. If successful it will ask you for the SSH password which you created in step 5 while installing.

10. Once you have excesses to your phone go to the parent folder <root> and go to into following folders:

• 11. You should see :
  • background-1.png
  • background-2.png
  • background-3.png
  • background-4.png
  
  12. You will have add more background pic into the folder according to how many desktops you add.
  
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  Make sure that the name and format is the same. Eg. background-1.png background-2.png background-3.png background-4.png background-5.png background-6.png I recommend that you use the same background pic. Some thing like the one in Humanity Theme. That way you do not have to access you phone every time you want to make changes.

13. You are Done.