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	qwerty12	2008-12-08 , 17:55
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Originally Posted by qole

I had a bluetooth keyboard. My wife was on the kitchen laptop, so I used the tablet. It seems to be important to hit "Preview Post" frequently, because some unknown key combination causes the tablet's browser to jump back a page, losing everything I've typed. "Preview Post" saves my work.

Yeah... I've had my posts lost (no keyboard) when using the tablet just by pressing the backspace key

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Nelson L. Squeeko	2008-12-08 , 18:50
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Would the Quiver trick also work for Maemo Mapper. Show current map and GPS position on the desktop?

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	qole	2008-12-08 , 18:56
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Originally Posted by Nelson L. Squeeko

Would the Quiver trick also work for Maemo Mapper. Show current map and GPS position on the desktop?

Don't see why not

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	allnameswereout	2008-12-08 , 19:22
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Haven't tried this but it looks awesome! How is performance?

BTW, I found http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_b...obile_devices/ & http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_b...obile_devices/ to contain lots of nice backgrounds. I found it via http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=800x480

My goal is to create some kind of pseudo-animated background based on the time of the day. Could be done in SVGs, transparent PNGs + background colour and/or image, or static PNGs. But I have some issues...

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	grog	2008-12-08 , 20:01
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VERY cool app. Thanks qole.

Originally Posted by qole

A cool side effect: If you return to the desktop from a fullscreen app using the switch (home) key, you can see the app behind the desktop. So start a slideshow in Quiver, then go back to your desktop, and you now have a slideshow for wallpaper!

If for some reason that of course doesn't reflect on on the overall coolness of this side effect, someone didn't want this particular cool side effect to happen, in spite of all it's coolness, is there any way to disable it?

(you can please some of the people some of the time, ...

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	qole	2008-12-08 , 20:37
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Originally Posted by grog

VERY cool app. Thanks qole.

If for some reason that of course doesn't reflect on on the overall coolness of this side effect, someone didn't want this particular cool side effect to happen, in spite of all it's coolness, is there any way to disable it?

(you can please some of the people some of the time, ... )

This is a problem with Hildon-Desktop. It turns out that when you return to the desktop from a non-minimized window using the task switcher menu on the bottom left of the screen, that Hildon doesn't minimize the window, it takes a quick-and-dirty shortcut and only shoves it "behind" the desktop. This normally has the same effect as minimizing the window, but when the desktop is transparent, you can see right through to Hildon's little cheats.

So this effect only happens if you leave the application's window open; if you minimize the application windows, they don't "show through" the desktop.

You have two choices; you either see the X root window through a transparent desktop, and then you also get this side-effect, or you kill the transparent desktop and get neither X root window nor open "background" windows.

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	qole	2008-12-09 , 06:19
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UPDATE: After reading about a recent job posting, I wanted to see exactly how difficult it would be to set up my own little repository. So I set one up using this howto and FatalSaint's repository as a template; it wasn't very difficult.

Anyway, I was also motivated to do this because I wanted to make this stuff easier to install. And hey, it is easier now, you can do it from the Application Manager!

Add this to Application Manager -> Tools -> Application Catalogue -> New button

Code:

Catalogue name: Qole
Web address: http://qole.maemobox.org/repository
Distribution: maemo
Components: main

Now, when you go to Browse installable applications -> Other, you'll be able to install setback 0.1.0 and all the other stuff will be installed automagically...

Feel free, once this is installed, to remove my little repository. This is purely an experiment with the side effect (that some might consider cool, others not so much) that this little hack is easy to install.

... waiting for the maemo repository police to come and bang on my door ...

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	grog	2008-12-09 , 14:28
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Using this cool little hack combined with cron I've managed to create an automatic slideshow-like effect. I think that's REALLY cool. Thanks muchly qole.

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	Un27Pee	2008-12-09 , 15:37
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Originally Posted by grog

Using this cool little hack combined with cron I've managed to create an automatic slideshow-like effect. I think that's REALLY cool. Thanks muchly qole.

Would you mind sharing your find out be cool for everyone to know unless ?

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	qole	2008-12-09 , 17:36
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Maybe I should put chron or dcron into my repository too? I'd have to "debianize" them, but that's another useful skill I'd like to teach myself.

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