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Re: Alternative desktop for N900
Thanks a lot! (I can't really thank you enough.) That works. I'm actually running blackbox and hildon simultaneously now, and struggling with this, but windows are now resizable at least.
EDIT: Not sure what I did entirely, just blundered through the directory you mentioned and commented out all calls to "hildon-desktop" and "hildon-home". This keeps "hildon-status-menu" running, but won't open sub-menus from the status-menu for some reason. Also, I can't say that I like blackbox all that much, it's a bit too minimalistic for my tastes. I guess if we want a complete desktop environment, it still has to be built from source, since I can't find any other prebuilt window manager packages that work besides blackbox and matchbox. Very nice as a proof of concept however! It really makes me feel like I bought the "mobile computer" that was advertised! I still haven't tried icewm or fvwm. Those might be in the repository from: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43188 |
Re: Alternative desktop for N900
(changed topic, since I don't want to run a "desktop environment" if I can help it. Just need a good window manager.)
Hopefully I'm not off base here, but this is my new (first) thread on the topic. I've included screenshots and a video. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58090 |
Re: Alternative desktop for N900
[b]Small update: [/b[
I'm still trying to get rid of the desktop environment altogether so as to save memory. If memory wasn't a concern however, I think the following link would make a more ideal desktop. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/UserInterface I think this is just a modification of the default hildon-desktop that comes with maemo. Has anyone done this yet? I couldn't find much instruction, but it doesn't seem too difficult at a glance. |
Re: Alternative desktop for N900
The article was created in 2008 so I doubt the embedded proposal is being workied on, but I like the UI examples - they do look similar to the alpha tablet interface for MeeGo.
If they finish it fully and include full rotation support I'd be interested. |
Re: Alternative desktop for N900
please, post photos ;)
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Re: Alternative desktop for N900
Being the author of a window manager myself (matwm), I couldn't resist seeing if mine would run on my phone. So being smart as I am, I just replaced Xsession (don't!), and figured there are watchdog daemons rebooting the phone if it notices important stuff goes *poof*. Enabling R&D mode fixed this, and it worked, sorta :-). Was it usable? No. Not yet anyway. I ended up reflashing the phone, so be warned, don't mess with the init scripts unless you are prepared to get in trouble.
I did get to just kill hildon-desktop later (in R&D mode), and launch matwm along the other desktop stuff (and sshd, which was useful). And it seems their popup and menu things, etc - and the hildon panel thing for that mather - expect hildon to do special stuff (other than listening to ICCCM and EWMH hints). That said, if I get time for it I'm going to try getting a different desktop on the phone, hopefully in a saner fashion than my first experiment - in which case i'll post an update. Actually, my plan was/is to write matwm-mobile, and have it be a complete replacement for the hildon desktop stuff. But I am lazy, not always bright and/or very motivated, so no idea if it'll ever happen. Quote:
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I tried to compile and run JWM, but there are some troubles with fonts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWM Maybe, I should fetch xfonts-base... |
Re: Alternative desktop for N900
bump, hoping there will be more interest on this in 2014 :)
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Re: Alternative desktop for N900
bump.... its 15
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