Very cool.
a) is that setting remembered by the tablet even after a shutdown/reboot?
b) would it be easy to create a very small applet that would sit on the home-screen and basically be a toggle-switch?

Hm, it should be simple then to make a 'NoAlarms' application (of Palm fame) where you can set a window where the alarmd should be off.

No. the alarm daemon will be started at boot via a rc script. (depending on the runlevel, it's in one of the rc0.d - rc6.d folders under /etc )

EDIT: and for the second question: get personal launcher and create 2 custom launchers with the commands given above and set the "run as root" checkbox
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Just rename your alarm sound file to something else, or cut and paste to put it somewhere else. That will take care of it.

File manager: Audio clips

or

emelfm2: /usr/share/sounds/ui-clock-alarm.mp3, alarm2.mp3 or alarm3.mp3

Yes, this shuts off the alarm dead until you reverse it.

bun

Sure, you can do the same thing for the wake up and shut down of the N8x0,
again, emelfm2
/usr/share/sounds/

start up:
- ui-wake_up_tune.wav to ui-wake_up_tune_no.wav
shut down:
- ui-shutdown.wav to ui-shutdown_no.wav
To confirm: (I hate this one )
- ui-confirmation_note.wav to ui-confirmation_note_no.wav
No. Your key tapping sound remains unchanged. This one only takes off the "Do you really want it?" follow with a loud PING!

or anything that annoys you

No. It does NOT affect any other operations/player except those call on to these files.
To reverse it, just change it back.

bun

You can, however, use the "update-rc.d" script (in /usr/sbin/) to manage the runlevel configuration (just like on a normal Debian/Ubuntu installation).

Documentation can be found here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Update-rc.d

So, as root, you should be able to do the following:

To re-enable it later, do something like this:

There is a nice GUI utility available already: http://maemo-sdk.garage.maemo.org/maemo-control.html



The package is called maemo-control-services.

Wow... a minor design-flaw... and lots of solutions

Thanks, everyone, for all the suggestions. My preference, at this point is the Speaker-Switch app as it give an on-screen display of the current state. However, while it shuts the speaker off, it doesn't re-enable it on my N810. Thus, it's a mute until reset kind of thing. I'll try working with t_moyashi on this to see if this can get fixed. He's looking for testers anyway.

David...