[UPDATE] System Info and date on standby screen - V1.1 IS OUT NOW!
 

After having a short brainstorm, admiral0 and I proudly present:

ls-magic

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2417/screen1yf.png

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Version 1.1 is out now, including a daemon using far less battery and installation via .deb package!
Also, the Hack is now named lpsmagic.
As i do not have any time at the moment, admiral0 is doing the work, so please give kudos to him. To make updating easier, there is a new thread for this mod, located here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1156548
Any questions/ideas/bugs/requests should be placed in the new thread.
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

• Created deb that backs up your system's css and installs new one.
• CPU usage has dropped (using caching in RAM for images).
• No more shell scripts. fully py
• Images moved to /opt/lpsmagic/icons (dpkg complains....)
• Upstart script. Automatic startup

Steps to successfully run this:

1. Install deb.
2. Reboot

Also read this if you are interested in next version of lpsmagic.
Enjoy the deb :)
Alternative link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5225087/ls-magic_1.1_armel.deb

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Is it for N9(50)? If yes, it should sit in Harmattan section (got subsection for harmattanish "apps"), to not waste time of Maemo users. Thanks in advance.

/Estel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

estel: you are right, thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Before I go any further, I'd like to ask, is there a way to change the font color, as red/blue are best for my screen....

Also is there a way to change the date to show in the format:
Month/Day/Year...

Thank you for your hard work and look forward to more development of this... maybe even a .deb at some point... This is an amazing...

Edit: Already modified the color of the icons... I assume the font is whatever color you've put your standby screen font to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Hi,
you can choose an other font by replacing the font file in /usr/home/MyDocs/ls-magic. If you want to, you can put another font file there, and change the name in the python script.

please tell me if we missed something in the installation routine!

a .deb package is easy to build an we will make one for sure, but it is too early as the code is not really done yet, so that would be a lot of work wich is not neccessary yet.

you can change the color of the text, but the icons are white by default. we are trying to find a good way to recolor them with the text. what changes did you do?

also, for some people (including me) the battery icon does not change, and alsways displays an usb plug. we will adress that soon.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

excellent. Please work on a UI for customisation. I can see this becoming huge.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

I've also done something similiar for the LockScreenQuote app. But I have a doubt about the battery consumption. Are you noticing any battery drain? What about the CPU usage of Xterm? I'm getting around 12-25% usage.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

as xterm does not need to run, it doesnt take battery. the script is started with nohup, so it does not need a running terminal application anymore.

so far i did not notice extra battery draining, we will see that in a few days of usage.

i will be offline for about ten hours or so from now. feel free to ask stuff, but dont mind if i cant answer. admiral0 will be here later, i guess.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

@ejasmudar
You are right about battery consumption. The display will consume 100% more during idle(there are twice things displayed as before), but it's a tradeoff with no info.
The python script for now doesn't do any caching/preloading so it consumes more than it should. Also the code is written at 3am so not the best code out there (loading all the icons that we don't even use...).

if people are interested in this, i can rewrite this in C++/QPainter to be more easy on RAM.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

It is not working for me:

After typing nohup I got: appending output /root/nohup.out.

and nothing happens :(

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

why do you execute it as root?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

I tried to execute it as root and then no root, same results :(

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

I recolored the icons, I'm testing to see if they work now....

Edit: I get the same output as Mousse04
I tried both root and no root and I got the same output as he did...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Ok when I go inside nohup.out I have:

can't execute ls-magic.sh: permission denied

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

oh nice

nohup develsh ls-magic.sh

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

i will eventually unify python script and shellscript so i can cache in RAM stuff.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

it's the zip.... . Tonight after 19:00 GMT i'll do some changes and fix installation.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Ok I got it I just had to chmod the .sh and .py scripts.

Thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

How do you do that?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

will provide installer tonight. don't damage your system :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

just go in:

/home/usr/ls-magic

then

chmod +x ls-magic.sh as indicated by admiral0

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

just a thing. I used the N9Qtweak application to enlarge my lockscreen text size ... and so with your script the problem is that I can't get all informations displayed on the screen because the size of the text.

How can I enlarge the size of the image corresponding to additional informations you provided with your script?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

I didn't have a look at the css file so i know little

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

when i do that it tells me chmod: operation not permitted

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

even in root?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

aegis. chmod as the user which owns the file (probably user). Or be patient till tonight :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Thanks a lot, works like a charm even though I got the "appending output /nohup.out" message ;)
Will try with a 30s update, and see if it's much more consuming or not.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Please take a look at my WIP app Lock screen Quotes (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81443).

It would be great if these different scripts for modding the lock screen could be combined into a mega GUI app that can chose what to show on the lockscreen selectively (ie, battery AND/OR RAM AND/OR Uptime etc AND/OR Random Quotes)

I am currently unable to continue development due to other commitments :(

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Is it ok for you if i use the quotes file?

I got inspired by your work (Thanks!). I first started to mod your script, then changed everything.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Yeah sure go ahead! It would be nice to be mentioned somewhere in the credits or something though ;)

BTW, based on my plans for improving the other script, instead of a full blown GUI, it would be better to store the variables in gconf and allow the user to manipulate it from the settings app.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Haha, looks like everyone likes our script.

Sorry about the chmod issue, looks like the files were on a fat partition before i zipped them, so they lost the executable flag. i will modify the first post with the setup instructions so that this problem will be gone.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Any news on consumption battery?

And what about my issue if I have enlarged the clock size on lockscreen?

See: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=23

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Battery consumption is a bit higher due to more OLEDs glowing in standby mode.

You would have to resize the image in the css file mentioned in the first post, shat should already be all I guess. try 45mm and 25mm.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

thanks a lot I will try :) !!!!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

It's a pretty cool thing, thank you for all your hard work on this... I removed both ls-magic folders from my N9, but there is still information on my standby screen... How do I get rid of it?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

to get rid of the whole thing:
- reboot your phone to stop the script (or stop it via "top" and "kill" if you like that better)
- delete both ls-magic folders
- open terminal or ssh session
- type: - delete the hidden file /home/user/.lowpowerinfo.png

EDIT: REMOVED TYPO

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Enjoy second post :)

Created deb.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Thanks,

Do you have to get rid of the whole thing before installing the deb version?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Info and date on standby screen - MOD - ls-magic
 

Thanks a lot guys!!

just a few quick comments:
please correct the first post, for the filename section to change, it says ...operatorlo go with a space too many
reboot, why? That can be done with a command, which I can't find just now... same can be used to get the system to accept the font colour change of the digital clock.

The .deb should probably have that command as prerm:
gconftool-2 --unset /desktop/meego/screen_lock/low_power_mode/operator_logo

As I mentioned elsewhere on this forum about the pentile screen, green has full resolution (i.e. you can go the smallest on fonts and graphic details), red the lowest power consumption. Just something to be aware of.

I'm looking forward to seeing a combined app with options for quotes, system info, whatnot. And please don't forget battery level dependent text colour! :P