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2009-09-03
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Joined on Aug 2009
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2009-09-03
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@ Manitoba, Canada
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Thank you for both MChronos and mephemeris. I installed them both through the repositories without difficulty.
I'm a seaman and still consider myself a navigator, even though we just read GPSs most of the time.
I like the precise information and the different ways to show it.
I'm looking now for a way to suppress the display of the Season bar and show just the Sun and Moon bars.
I find the applet pretty slow; I'm using an N800 with Diablo. But I'm also displaying Clock, FM Radio, HomeIP, Internet Radio, and Internet search.
I edited my mchronos.ini, and noticed the entire ~/.mchronos directory is owned by the root user and group.
Rather than changing the permissions to world-read and world-write, I changed the ownership of the directory and everything in it. Perhaps you could have the files installed that way. That's a better solution than chmod 777.
When I rebooted the N800 mchronos came up with the Sun and Season bars, their text data, and the mode toggle buttons, but no Moon bar or data.
I disabled the applet and re-enabled it, and the display came up normally.
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2009-09-05
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I have subsequently 'learned the tricks' to changing permissions during the actual package install, so if/when I make more changes to this stuff, hopefully it will no longer be a 'post-install' issue for the user.
BTW, can *you* answer the question about whether the BT GPS mode works with the N810? No one has ever commented on that!
Does the 'gpsbt' GPS mode on your devices use (successfully) the 'built-in' GPS devices inside your tablets?
I have a user of 'MChronos' that experiences a 'reset' whenever he tries to use this program for a GPS reading with the 'gpsbt' mode.
This question would also apply to the 'MEphemeris' program.
There is nothing more dangerous than a bored cat.