Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2010-09-07, 15:01
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Replies: 237
Views: 73,929
Re: How do you use multitasking in N900?
I use it extensively, and I would be frustrated without it. I currently have nine apps running:
the clock/alarm app,
an X terminal (running an ssh session)
the phone
contacts
the...
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Forum: Applications
2010-01-16, 21:26
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
robotfindskitten 1.40 adds portrait mode; it also has a new system for touchscreen control suggested by Will Thompson. If you'd like to playtest, let me know.
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2010-01-09, 00:16
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,258
Strange input methods (Shavian in particular)
I wondered how difficult it might be to remap the N900's keyboard to allow input in the Shavian alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet). I tried, and it took about ten minutes: I'm...
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Forum: Applications
2010-01-07, 03:28
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
I've now put a few minutes into packaging the thing; it's here:
http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tthurman/beebem/beebem_0.01-1_armel.deb
It works well enough to boot and load discs, but not well...
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Forum: Applications
2009-12-02, 15:31
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
So as to the front page: currently, it looks like this:
http://belltower.garage.maemo.org/screenshot00.png
I wonder whether it would be more Maemo-ish if I made it look something more like...
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Forum: Applications
2009-12-02, 15:29
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
So for the belltowers, the import from Dove's Guide could be done on the wiki, and the Maemo app would just need to download from there. Nice idea.
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Forum: Applications
2009-11-28, 22:28
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Really‽ That's wonderful! Do you have a link I can point people to, or anything like that?
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Forum: Applications
2009-11-28, 22:26
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
I have modified the emulator a bit so it runs more smoothly on the device. So there are four things I want to sort out before I release anything.
The upstream licensing of Beebem. But this has...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-18, 13:14
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
I don't know how the N8x0 window manager handled it, but I imagine it was in a similar way. The fault is not with the window manager but with libsdl. It is possible (probable, indeed) that the...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-18, 00:56
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
When an app refuses focus, the focus ends up on the desktop. When a keypress is received by the desktop, this is interpreted as a request to look up contacts beginning with that letter.
I...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-17, 17:12
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
And today I uploaded a screencast of robotfindskitten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNOYJLvttOY) as well.
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-17, 16:16
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
I don't know-- do you know of any good Archimedes emulators for *nix that could be ported? I never used one myself (despite having grown up with the BBC Micro), so I don't know much about it.
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 20:53
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Well, since you asked:
http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo-exile
And the obligatory Elite:
http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo-elite
I don't think I'll...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 18:13
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,944
Re: N810 apache web server....WORKS????
Hijacking an old thread: I can confirm that Apache works fine on the N900 as well, since someone (possibly facetiously) told me it would be a killer feature. ...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 18:12
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Think we should file a Maemo bug to get it fixed downstream if they won't get on with fixing it upstream? It seems a pretty easy bug to run into.
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 18:06
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Matchbox is doing the right thing here, yes. Looks like that wmhints->flags =... should have been a wmhints->flags |=... .
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 17:41
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 17:40
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
DOSBox (and BeebEm) have neither InputHint nor WM_TAKE_FOCUS, and the ICCCM says explicitly that this means "the client never expects keyboard input".
One rather interesting point is that a very...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-16, 12:47
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Thank you :)
The problem is that there's a bit in WM_HINTS which (in both apps) isn't set. You can see this using "xprop -id 0x...":
For Beebem:
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
bitmap...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-15, 17:18
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Re: BBC Micro
Thanks. Fixing window managers is rather an obsession of mine, so I'm certainly going to be looking at that after work tonight. :)
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-15, 17:11
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Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
BBC Micro
http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo
Ten minutes' hacking around brings the Beeb to the N900. It has some keyboard focus issues which need seeing to. Also, beebem uses f12 to...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-09, 18:18
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Replies: 70
Views: 20,887
Re: Conboy on Fremantle
Conboy is perhaps the most useful app I've yet run on fremantle, and that's saying quite a lot. Thank you.
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-08, 14:32
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
It occurred to me the other day that Belltower could be usefully generalised. Imagine if there was a Maemo package called "nearby" which provided an app which, given a set of items with coordinates...
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-04, 12:14
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Re: rfk, belltower
I have also made a screencast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJLIJwOzwEM) of Belltower in use, in case anyone's interested. I think it shows quite well how easy to use the N900's UI is.
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Forum: Applications
2009-09-04, 12:12
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Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
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