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What I did on my N800 was to have a colour screen with my name and 'phone number. I did this on both log-on screens.

So, in theory, if someone finds my N800 they'll be able to return it to me.

Or, if they steal it, they'll have to see my name and number until they come here to find out how to replace them.
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Here is my current one:

For some reason it keeps saying "Permission denied." Root is enabled.

So I found this N800 with some dudes name and number on it, can someone tell how to remove this...

Heh, heh, heh.

I have tried using OpenSSH and Putty, Xterm alone (root enabled), and the GPE filemanager, and it always say something along the lines of "permission denied" or similar. Can someone please help me?

Thanks.

To see what permissions have been set for the files, execute Then execute 'whoami' to see if you are indeed root or user. You can post the outputs of both commands here.

Okay, here's what it says after the first command:

-rw-r--r--r 1 root root 49685 Nov 20 06:58 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_nokia_hands.jpg


After "whoami" it says root. Hmmm.....?

downloaded "becomeroot" from the app installer.

Then I just open the web brower and put a "/" for the url. Then naviagated to
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

I held down the pointer and did a save as on the following files...

qgn_indi_startup_nokia_logo.png (800x480)
qgn_indi_nokia_hands.jpg (800x480)
qgn_indi_progressbar.png (24x16)

... and save them to an SDcard.

I copyed then on to the desktop computer , I made two copies one was for a backup.
The other copy I pasted in new pictures using MsPaint and save them back on to the SDcard with the same file name, and I keep the picture the same size.

Once I replaced the SDcard I open "Xterm". I switch to root....

sudo gainroot

...then I change to the directory the files live in...

cd /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Next I deleted the old copies from that directory...

rm *nokia_hands.jpg
rm *startup_nokia_logo.png

(only did those two pictures)

After that I change in xterm back to the directory with the new picture on them....

cd /media/mmc1/

(the location for the SDcards are mmc1 or mmc2)

then the new files were copied were the old ones lived...

cp *nokia_hands.jpg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/
cp *startup_nokia_logo.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Then I restarted the N800.


What would nice is if one the devolper who live here would write an app to all the above for ya.
Hint..hint..wink..wink