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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-09-10, 06:25
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,621,277
Posted By kitwalker
Re: The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU

Rather than the contacts, I use the phone app and use the 'select contact' button and press the appropriate alphabet group like 'STU'. Easier than from the contacts.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-09-07, 03:12
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,621,277
Posted By kitwalker
Re: The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU

Is it just me? The calculator still doesnt work for me in portrait mode after the update...
Forum: Applications 2011-04-11, 06:30
Replies: 13
Views: 5,041
Posted By kitwalker
Re: How to do something to make cmd-shortcuts be root ?

Use it this way:

sh -c 'echo "sleep 1; echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness" | sudo gainroot'
Forum: Applications 2011-04-11, 03:07
Replies: 13
Views: 5,041
Posted By kitwalker
Re: How to do something to make cmd-shortcuts be root ?

I've mentioned a trick to do this in another thread post here (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=963728&postcount=17). See if that works for you.
Forum: Community 2011-03-21, 12:16
Replies: 90
Views: 18,649
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Nokia N900 Owners from India

Did what everyone recommends we do over here:

Power search for 'Indore' :)

Found a yrkulkarni: http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=31028 Not sure if he still comes online here though...
Forum: Community 2011-03-21, 12:02
Replies: 90
Views: 18,649
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Nokia N900 Owners from India

Hi All,

An N900er from Mangalore, working in Bangalore.

@Ykho: Regd your question, I dont think 51, 101, 501 are auspicious in any way. Its just that in our weddings, whenever people keep money...
Forum: Development 2011-03-09, 04:02
Replies: 19
Views: 6,572
Posted By kitwalker
Re: How to use root within script/program?

There's another method that works great which I saw based on this:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=572581&postcount=16

From the above link (disable_ts.zip)

If you put this in a script...
Forum: General 2011-02-25, 09:12
Replies: 13
Views: 4,142
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Dbus scripts settings and proximity sensor

Not sure if this will help you, but dug up this old post:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=368865&postcount=2

I checked it using cat and is working.

But polling on a file value may not...
Forum: General 2011-01-07, 08:30
Replies: 389
Views: 131,155
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Elop said N9 is a 2011 event. It's 2011! Where is it?

This thread looks like it may have 358 more posts to come :)
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-11-11, 06:59
Replies: 11
Views: 3,991
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Quick help required! I accidently used CHOWN and CHMOD at $

That's exactly why I asked you if you were in your home folder denoted by ~ before the $ prompt or you are in /home/user/MyDocs.

These are basically part of two separate file systems. /home/user...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-10-27, 08:17
Replies: 3
Views: 1,425
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Very odd: not sure if PR1.3 installed

In PR 1.3, the LED flases red if the front camera is turned on. Turn on the front camera (maybe with the mirror app) and see if the LED glows red.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-10-25, 06:19
Replies: 34
Views: 14,731
Posted By kitwalker
Re: MeeGo leader Jaakso LEAVES Nokia

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
Forum: General 2010-10-21, 15:29
Replies: 76
Views: 15,216
Posted By kitwalker
Re: N900 user wants to explore linux on his desktop...

So many Linux distros to chose from! If that alone gives you a headache, then try this Linux Distribution Chooser (http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/)
It's an online questionnaire that you have to...
Forum: General 2010-10-12, 06:42
Replies: 145
Views: 23,710
Posted By kitwalker
Re: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?

You can definitely change the install path. I'll give you a small example of what I did. I didn't want another daemon running, so I extracted qwerty12's headset-control deb package and copied the...
Forum: General 2010-09-08, 09:03
Replies: 2,070
Views: 699,560
Posted By kitwalker
Re: New members say hello !

I'm from Bangalore India and bought my N900 a month back. I'm lovin it!!!

Nokia didnt release their previous NITs in India and I was all set to buy an N97 one evening and it rained heavily that...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-08, 08:36
Replies: 8
Views: 2,629
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Increase history in shell?

The color not coming is not related to bash3 but to ls itself. The ls command is mapped to busybox. Install gnu-coreutils and you can then run ls as gls.
Also you can create an alias like alias...
Forum: Alternatives 2010-08-30, 08:52
Replies: 764
Views: 331,068
Posted By kitwalker
Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression

"BTW, I don't use this on the N900 but as others have stated, the fact that I can is one of the reasons why I like the N900 in the first place."

Absolutely! Just the fact that you guys are able to...
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