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thedead1440	2012-10-02 , 07:13
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Originally Posted by wolke

its waiting on stding for some reason. perhaps your input was not a terminal?

I only use it via SSH...Quiting and repeating after 1min made it work well...

It must just be a system bug or maybe due to "undue stress" caused by my frequent opening and closing it

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wolke	2012-10-02 , 07:21
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could be a real bug; there is no simple way of doing non-blocking i/o in python.
os.read() doesnt block for me, but it doesnt make guarantees.

do let me know if it comes up again, til then ill pretend it didnt happen.

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wolke	2012-10-02 , 07:24
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i only use it on ssh as well, with another script i call bigtext.

which makes me think of a feature i want! using stdin properly, or communicating via dbus or something, and having it QUICKLY show new text instead of taking 2 whole seconds.

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wolke	2012-10-02 , 07:25
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bigtext ~/somefile
bigtext hey
bigtext

Code:

#!/bin/bash
source /etc/profile
pkill -f .*qtbigtext.py.*
if [ "$1" == "-k" ]; then
  exit 0
fi
if [ "$#" -eq "1" ] && [ -e $1 ]; then
  exec cat "$1" | /opt/qtbigtext/qtbigtext.py 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
else
  exec /opt/qtbigtext/qtbigtext.py "$@" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
fi

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thedead1440	2012-10-02 , 07:33
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brilliant works much better

My ssh window too is now not made to be unavailable thanks to this...

This way is much easier to use it too! Thanks!

Last edited by thedead1440; 2012-10-02 at 07:36.

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thedead1440	2012-10-02 , 07:40
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wolke, I managed to force the bug to appear

Its really not an issue...If you want to see how i forced it see here

Edit: I don't think we can call it a bug but more like an user-inflicted issue?

Last edited by thedead1440; 2012-10-02 at 07:42.

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wolke	2012-10-02 , 07:45
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no thats a bug

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ladoga	2012-12-25 , 01:06
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Any ideas how to wake up the device when qtbigtext.py runs?

Here's a modified bigtext script with probably the most useless --help and no added functionality whatsoever

Code:

#!/bin/sh

pkill -f .*qtbigtext.py.*
if [ "$1" == "-k" ]; then
	exit 0
fi
if [ "$1" == "--help" ]; then
	echo -e "Usage: `basename $0` [TEXT OR FILE]"
	echo -e "Display text as large as possible, with all the text fitting."
	echo -e ""
	echo -e "Options:"
	echo -e "  -k		kill qtbigtext process and exit"
	echo -e "  --help	display this help and exit"
	echo -e ""
	echo -e "If no arguments are given, display text in ~/MyDocs/qtbigtext.txt"
	echo -e "Configuration file is at ~/.config/qtbigtext.conf"
	exit 0
fi
if [ "$#" -eq "1" ] && [ -e "$1" ]; then
	cat "$1" | /opt/qtbigtext/qtbigtext.py > /dev/null 2>&1 &
else
	/opt/qtbigtext/qtbigtext.py "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi

Also using accented charachters doesn't work (utf-8)?

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