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Greetings all!

Qwerty, with the help of the author Stephen H., managed to compile a working version of Syncterm for the Tablet.

Not only is it stable but it's also pretty damn zippy. It has a very nice running speed... at least 20 times faster than Putty in my opinion. :)

Latest build can be found here:
Syncterm

What I did was download and unzipped it on my desktop, then transferred the file directly to my tablet's name which is N800.

From there, I believe in Xterm I typed:
root
chmod +x /home/user/MyDocs/syncterm.nokia

From there, whenever I want to start this, I type:
root
/home/user/MyDocs/syncterm.nokia -iX

Here are some screenshots:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7154/26665510hj9.png

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9290/28859874li0.png

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/9864/96299846zj3.png

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/6800/41372257bw7.png

This version wasn't compiled with SSH support.

According to the author:

Quote:

Adding SSH support is a bit tricky, so I didn't walk qwerty through that part. Basically, Cryptlib needs to be installed and (most likely) statically linked. The whole process for a "best" build would most likely be around 30-60 minutes with a developer who has the tablet handy for testing on.

The basic steps for adding SSH support are having a static Cryptlib
library in a magical location (../lib/cryptlib/$(machine).release/libcl.a) and passing -DSTATIC_CRYPTLIB=1 on the make command line.

Quick question though:

How can I get this to launch in full screen mode?

I think it has something to do with wmctrl but is there a newbie link someone can provide to me on this?

All thanks goes to qwerty for his great work!

Hope someone else can enjoy it as much as I do. :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addison (Post 256375)

Quick question though:

How can I get this to launch in full screen mode?

I think it has something to do with wmctrl but is there a newbie link someone can provide to me on this?

Code:

wmctrl -r syncterm -b add,fullscreen

If you throw that in a shell script, you may need a delay to let the window show up, like:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

/home/user/MyDocs/syncterm.nokia -iX &

sleep 2

wmctrl -r syncterm -b add,fullscreen

You might also be interested in an overlay keyboard; if you need xvkbd, I can get you a copy (don't remember whether I compiled it or where I got it from), and transset-df and friends are here.

You can start it in fullscreen mode using sdl with:
syncterm.nokia -iSF

It takes much longer to start up but it does come and is faster than the X11 output mode.

Hey Benson!

Looking over your post, you forgot to mention the first step on getting wmctrl. :D

Here's what I'm seeing in Xterm:

Quote:

Nokia-N800-43-7:~# apt-get install wmctrl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package wmctrl

Also, I don't recomend the SDL fullscreen mode with qwerty's suggestion since it's not friendly with xkbd.

Both times it crashed on me.

First time I had to do a full reboot.

Second time it kicked me back to Xterm stating 'parachute deployed'.

Ah.. I didn't have a virtual keyboard running when I tried...

as for wmctrl:
http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/composi...07-6_armel.deb

Quote:

as for wmctrl:
http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/composi...07-6_armel.deb

Thank you!

So yep, I'm able to get it running in full screen mode.

Now I'm just waiting to hear from the author to see if it's possible to have Syncterm fill the entire size of the screen with the proper font.

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/2484/88991452ws5.png

Many thanks qwerty and Benson!

Oh, and qwerty, any chance you would be able to recompile this again and include SSH support some time within the near, immediate future?

It's not that big of a deal for me but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addison (Post 256721)

Oh, and qwerty, any chance you would be able to recompile this again and include SSH support some time within the near, immediate future?

It's not that big of a deal for me but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask. :)

Not possible, sorry (for me, anyway). Remember when I tried compiling libcrypto the first time?

According to Stephen:

Quote:

Does this make any sense to you?

If not, I'm good with what you've done and we can leave at it that.

This definitely is my favorite application for the tablet and still can't seem to thank you enough for it. :)

Is the tablet capable of displaying fullscreen overlay mode?

Like is there a special driver or package that needs to be installed to support such a feature?

If I start up with
/home/user/MyDocs/syncterm.nokia -iOF
I'm getting this error...

Quote:

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
Value in failed request: 0x1a0000c
Serial number of failed request: 39
Current serial number in output stream: 40

Is there any chance syncterm will be available on the N900? I use it a lot on my desktop and would love to access bbs'es on my mobile.

No way!

There's someone here that uses BBS sites besides myself?

I thought I was the only one which left me feeling like a freak. :)

Good news is that I having it working in full screen mode though the start up is a little spotty.

Other than that, it works awesome.

My only wish is for it to have SSH support but I guess that would take about 30 minutes of coding.

I still have the author's notes on how to do it though.

I mentioned this program to ukki about 2 weeks ago.

I'll bring it back up next weekend and see if he has any interest in creating a fremantle build.

I know BBS'es are rare to find these day's but they still (barely) survive. I use to run a board with my father from 1983 until 1998 here in The Netherlands although the first years it was a viewdata system rather than a BBS. Still I visit bbs'es around the world on a regular base, luckely I don't have to dail-in and get the bill next month ;)

I'm looking forward to a fremantle build of Syncterm whch is to me the best bbs-terminal in existence today. Used to work with Terminate in the old dos age, don't know if it handles telnet and can be run in Dosbox?

I would like to use this on the N900 too ;)

.... long silence for about 5 months

Any news on Syncterm on the N900 ???