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	darethehair	2009-09-03 , 13:56
	Posts: 273 \| Thanked: 104 times \| Joined on Mar 2007 @ Manitoba, Canada	#93

Originally Posted by mariner

Thank you for both MChronos and mephemeris. I installed them both through the repositories without difficulty.

I am glad you like them! 99% of what I want for MChronos is done now, but I am hoping to do more for MEphemeris after I get receive some assistance from the author of the great PyEphem python libraries.

I'm a seaman and still consider myself a navigator, even though we just read GPSs most of the time.

I like the precise information and the different ways to show it.

Yes, I am not a 'navigator', but I also like convenient/precise information available to me -- and a device small enough to carry it around

Unfortunately, the screen on my N800 is terrible in sunny conditions

I'm looking now for a way to suppress the display of the Season bar and show just the Sun and Moon bars.

Well, I will certainly consider making that an option, but I cannot say when that might occur. Hmmm...

I find the applet pretty slow; I'm using an N800 with Diablo. But I'm also displaying Clock, FM Radio, HomeIP, Internet Radio, and Internet search.

Yep, it is slow, and that has been mentioned a few times on these threads. Sadly, there is very little that I can do about it -- the apps are *not* written in 'C', but in 'Python' -- so that I even had a chance of being able to write something as complex as this

I edited my mchronos.ini, and noticed the entire ~/.mchronos directory is owned by the root user and group.

Rather than changing the permissions to world-read and world-write, I changed the ownership of the directory and everything in it. Perhaps you could have the files installed that way. That's a better solution than chmod 777.

I have subsequently 'learned the tricks' to changing permissions during the actual package install, so if/when I make more changes to this stuff, hopefully it will no longer be a 'post-install' issue for the user.

When I rebooted the N800 mchronos came up with the Sun and Season bars, their text data, and the mode toggle buttons, but no Moon bar or data.

I disabled the applet and re-enabled it, and the display came up normally.

Well, as far as I know, this has nothing to do with the app itself, though I cannot comment on what the problem cause actually is. Some behaviors on my N800 remain a mystery!

BTW, can *you* answer the question about whether the BT GPS mode works with the N810? No one has ever commented on that!

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