Gimp running on two LXDE desktops is really, really nice for photo editing on the N900.

Photo as taken with the N900's camera:



Photo after editing with the Gimp, including a complicated feathered selection to enhance only the background (volcano and sky) -- look at the line of bushes behind the girl to find the division...

i got the following problem, after updating source list of synaptic, while i want to download packages, there are always some failing

Qole: what do you mean running gimp on "two desktops"?

And, thanks for the useful tip about using "xvkbd -text" to send individual keystrokes in combination with xbindkeys. It's a lot of machinery as opposed to using xmodmap, but when push comes to show, it will do! :-)

--denis

Edit: I tested "xvkbd -text" in Easy Debian and it works pretty much as it should... save for the problem that a bunch of warnings are output when testing in xterm -- which can be diverted with "2>/dev/null".

I compiled xvkbd for Maemo, but while it works for normal text, trying to send special chars such as in "\[ntilde]" or the equivalent "\[dead_tilde]n" do not work. Possibly, another bug with Fremantle's X11 Server?

I installed qtnx inside, and it working well inside lxde.
When I try to start it with debbie qtnx I can't get the keyboard to work.
Is it someway to activate the keyboard to work when running it outside lxde?


It's looks like the problem is qtnx and not easy debian.
I managed to get it started on meamo and it was the same problem there. So forget it in this thread.

Hello all,

This is my first post and I want to start do congratulate you all for this great community!

I'm also trying (since yesterday) the Easy Debian (testing repository version)

Everything works great, except that when I tried do install my first package (from synaptic on the menu)

I selected the "Filezilla" package and said yes to all the required dependencys, after some package download activity it always fails on these 2 packets:

I have tryed to continue without these 2 packages but filezilla never works.
Do you have any idea on how to solve this?
Should I add any alternative repository?

Tnx in advance!

Qole: Are you running lxde with sound? I tried amarok and tried to load up one of my mp3s. I didn't get any sound, I got an alsa error instead.

paulo_olivera: Hit the "reload" button before installing.

andyph666: No, I haven't figured out a safe way to get sound working in Fremantle Easy Debian

I found a bug in Maemo that is affecting Easy Debian.

The "fuser" command doesn't work at all in Fremantle busybox (it is there, it just doesn't do anything). This causes strange effects -- the chroot is closed, but the applications keep running.

Installing the psmisc package from Extras-devel fixes the problem, but that package is problematic... it uninstalls the 'mp-fremantle-generic-pr' package, and I bet OTA updates will break without that package. Grrrr...

Thank you, after that, it installed without any error.

But then I try to use Filezilla it doesn't connect to any server. After inputing the server_address/user/pass/port when I do "quickconnect" the main window disapears and the filezilla process crashes.

Output timeline when starting Filezilla from a shell inside LXDE:
At this point, the Filezilla program window appears and the program seems and behaves normaly.
Now I fill the server_address/user/pass/port and press "quickconnect". At this point the process crashes and the main Filezilla window closes.

Output when the Filezilla process crashes:
Note: The only extra packages that I installed on this Debian were

- Filezilla
- Openssh-client

Do you have any idea on why I'm having this error?

Do you recomend any other sftp gui for debian?


Tnx in advance!

According to this thread, a big YES!!!

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=429693

--denis

Edit: Why don't you compile your own in Scratchbox? It builds with no problem whatsoever.