First video uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPZcNCHBvQ

Aspect ratio's wrong, but it's better than waiting for the large videos to download.

YOU ARE GOD!!!

Well-- almost. This is so awesomely kewl!

As usual, a few nitpicking remarks:

1. Maybe XFCE of even Rox would be better choices, as they provide a richer user environment.
2. We so need to go hunting for an alternative HWR solution; I hate peckboards with a vengeance. Xstroke anyone?

Question: Was that the Links browser you got running? It's hard to see on the youtube video.

Next video uploading now. Yes, it was Links AFAICT

Ok, now here's the stoopid question : any hope for our poor 770 users?!

Second video uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sh9VoEb93I

Mhm... wouldnt this be what projects like Ångström are all about?

Has anyone tried http://www.angstrom-distribution.org...0121/nokia770/ ?

Well, there aren't any instructions on the Angstrom page on how to install it on the 770, despite there are fro other handhelds..

Omar

I would like to know how you did that.. that is awesome. Hoping for the ability to boot the sdk into other environments like this. If a standard x framework like this can be used all sorts of things can be ported.

Look, lets start out by saying, as I have said before, I am not a developer. I am by trade a unix admin, and have been using linux since 1996. I downloaded window maker source and comiled it in scratch box. I changed a couple files for bootup(specifically matchbox.sh now only contains the line wmaker &) I hacked and linked a bunch of stuff to get it to work, libs and bins and share stuff. I also stopped maemo_desktop from launching as it overtakes the desktop. I can easily start maemo_desktop and get to all my applets to change things although they are in the middle of the screen. I was able to launch controlpanel in a window so I could change things like that also. I literally spent about maybe 8 hours setting this up an playing. If I launch anything that has hildon keyboard support it will start the virtual keyboard but its in the middle of the screen.


Anyway 770 users, I see no reason you could not do this also, CPU resources are very low. I would not be able to set it up for you though as I can not test it. I would be happy to help anyone get it going though.

I hoping to put out a tarball later this week, I have a few kinks I want to get worked out.

Quite honestly when I set out to see if I could compile it I thought that it would fail, and when it didn't I figured lets give it a try, manually stopped matchbox, and started wmaker and it started, rather ugly but it started. After further tinkering and making it bootup to wmaker, I almost crapped myself :-)

Thanks for posting the youtube videos, my cable modem was running balls out!!!

I tried to compile afterstep and it went ok, but fails to launch. KDE? hehe

It should also be fairly easy to write a script to boot either of the window managers. just run a script to change the config files back for bootup, and restart. This would give you the best of both worlds, I think you could even have it happen without rebooting. Just stop wmaker and start matchbox, the start maemo_desktop.

If thats all you did then xfce might not work, too many dependancies.. but blackbox/fluxbox might, they are both small enough. Can you "right click" with the n800? (Still waiting on my tax refund to buy my own).

I too am a Unix Admin and look forward to seeing what I can and can't do with this device.

If a normal WM is possible, as your videos truly make it look, then so much more will be possible with this device.