Thread: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
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2010-02-24 , 14:08
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Originally Posted by f2thak View Post
downloaded *.deb, did dpkg --force-all -i accelemymote.deb....... installed i think... thanks HEAPS
Probably best not to make a habit of that, which i'm sure you know.

EDIT: okay found config file.. but I get this error when running app from xterm.

trigger file /home/user/.accelemymote/live-trigger specified; file not found... shutting down.
It wasn't an error, it was simply letting you know that it didn't have any reason to live... tragic.

Seriously, though, you were probably running the binary executable instead of the script.

/opt/maemo/usr/bin/accelemymote.sh is the toggle script. Run it with an "&" at the end to start it up, and then run it again when you are done.

EDIT: dont know what i did but i ran thru menu shortcut, checked in top and it was there and works!! but in doom, if i want to config 'actions' is that possible?? i.e. make left/right strafe instead of turn??? tHANKS

actually im guessing thats not posible if this acts as a joystick, not keyboard
Limited to the controls the app gives to joystick. PrBoom maps four joystick buttons to actions, so that's one way to approach it for future versions. There's also potential for keyboard mode.

IMHO i think the name Accelemote would be much better for this app..!
Less of a mouthful but less shades of "maemo".
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