Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

Any app that can handle pdf forms? Is Acrobat available for Debian Armel?

--denis

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

After installing mini-Gnome, I have found two Gnome apps to be very nice in OS2008 as well.

gThumb: A really nice little picture viewer, it can do simple picture manipulation, and it has a rocking fullscreen mode with an autohiding finger friendly menu bar.

Nautilus file browser: Wow. You can connect to just about any file source, be it FTP, SMB, SSH or just local files, and browse the files and folders easily. It also has really good support for mime types and "open with".

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

Hi,

last year I tried to convince people to install debian on N800. But now the situation is much better, as lenny / armel is becoming official.

I wrote down some notes how I installed lenny / armel on N800 using vncviewer to get the graphical interface. Especially on N800 this has the advantage to have the maemo on screen keyboard availible.

I used debootstrap to install lenny, which is quite a clean way. Of cause it takes some time (for complete gnome environment some hours)
But you get a lot of applications, which probably nobody will port to maemo. I use kstars, octave, maxima (broken at the moment on armel, but I hope it will be fixed soon), and what you need. The armel port statistics say, that more than 95% of the i386 applications of debian work.

My aim is to get a one click installer for debian / lenny onto diablo distribution! The only hand made should be formating the sd card with some unix file system.

Who likes to take part?

Here is my howto: http://www.physik.de/770

Detlef

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

dschmicker, please look at the Deblet website for more info about current efforts to make a complete tablet Debian bootstrap installer. Also, my Easy Debian package does an easy install of a chroot Debian environment, using a big image file with all the apps pre-installed and the Xephyr nested x-server to host a window manager instead of VNC.

There was a mysterious user, "megami", who got me interested in Debian last January. Here is his teaser screenshot post, and then here's his explanation post. He even wrote up a wiki article on the subject.

Any relation?

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

Thanks,

the guys from deblet project just contacted me. My problem is: The main problems and the main work is done for booting debian on tablet.

This is much more difficult, and it has licence issues. For me it is important to get as many applications as possible on the tablet. Therefore the vncviewer approach with chroot. vncviewer has the additional advantage that it offers a 800x600 virtual display, which makes most (all?) debian applications usable without screen size issues.

The big image approach is not option to me (I do not like it:-)

(by the way, no relation with this mysterious poster)

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

I found that a 770x770 virtual display is best; you get a single vertical scrollbar.

I prefer running my Debian apps in OS2008 rather than a secondary WM. See this post for my most recent chroot scripts that integrate Debian almost seamlessly ('debbie openoffice' runs Debian openoffice in OS2008).

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

Vectoroids would be lots of fun if there was a way to remap the fire button to something other than the space bar. I bet it works well on the N810.

EDIT: I'm going to do some experimenting with xmodmap and xbindkeys to see if I can remap the N800 keys to be more useful for Debian programs. Should be interesting. (I confess, I'm adding this edit so I can use this post as reference for those two posts, oh and the xbindkeys info and some xmodmap info too :D )

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Ok, so here's what you do to make Vectoroids lots of (loud) retro-gaming fun:

Start up your Debian chroot, and enter the following (you could make a script if you find it to be as much fun as I do)

The important keys (after this mapping) are:
DPad up: thrusters
DPad left & right: rotate counter & clockwise
Menu key: fire gun

(note that this game seems to have been ported already, oh well. I'm going to chalk this one up as "I've figured out how to remap the keys on an application-specific basis...)

Re: Debian Apps That Run Well On The Tablets
 

If they absolutely have to be in the "extras" menu.. open a terminal:
as root
Code:
cp /usr/share/applications/hildon/ooo.desktop /usr/share/applications/hildon/mynewapp.desktop
vi /usr/share/applications/hildon/mynewapp.desktop
Change to something like
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=UberSoftware
GenericName=UberSoftware
Exec=debbie application
Icon=<find an icon, or leave it to be Open Office's>

Thanks, Fatalsaint. I got the app into my custom menu and when I click on the app it opens in Hildon window(sweeeet!!!). Now can you please write out the path where the Icon for Openoffice.png is so I can add my new Debian apps icon into that path. I will show a screenshot afterwards.

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Qole The Debian bug I mentioned earlier has come back.

Here is what happens. I'm in Easy Debian I only have one app running say Iceweasel Web Browser. I have turned off all non essential background apps, applets, status bar, etc..( clock, bluetooth, omweather). After about 45 minutes my screen will go white and the sound and light status menus reappear and my wifi gets re-started. Now I did re-flash both sdhc cards, re-did my easy dual boot by PB, installed Easy Debian on my mmc1 card, have almost no apps loaded yet so I could see if this bug came back as before. Anyone know how to trace it so I can post results. Last time it did this I was in Synaptic manager upgrading and it trashed both Debian and Hildon that I had to completely redo do both. TIA