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2009-09-03
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#92
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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.
Last edited by mariner; 2009-09-03 at 00:49.
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.
Last edited by mariner; 2009-09-03 at 00:49.
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2009-09-03
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@ Manitoba, Canada
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#93
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Originally Posted by mariner
I am glad you like them! 99% of what I want for MChronos is done now, but I am hoping to do more for MEphemeris after I get receive some assistance from the author of the great PyEphem python libraries.
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.
Unfortunately, the screen on my N800 is terrible in sunny conditions 
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.
BTW, can *you* answer the question about whether the BT GPS mode works with the N810? No one has ever commented on that!
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2009-09-05
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#94
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Originally Posted by darethehair
Please, don't. The problem is not permissions but ownership. Install the directories and files in the user's home directory so that they are owned by the user named "user" and the group named "users". Then ownership will be correct, and with correct ownership there won't be any permissions problem to solve.
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.
Originally Posted by darethehair
No, I can't -- I have an N800.
BTW, can *you* answer the question about whether the BT GPS mode works with the N810? No one has ever commented on that!
GPS mode works on the N800, although it would be easy to conlude that it doesn't.
It's necessary to pair the GPS with the N800 in Control Panel --> GPS Location. Maemo-mapper has its own GPS interface, so M-m users may not know 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.
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