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Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

Standard Mer installation doesn't work with Easy-Mer. I tried creating the user "user", uid=29999. Easy-Mer loaded, but bad things happen. I got the top toolbar, a side toolbar, duplicate blank menu items, other stuff. Had to pull the battery to reboot. Messed up my theme. Easily fixed.

Re-installed Easy-Mer. Booting into it still doesn't load powerlaunch or wifi applet. Looks like a dbus issue? Runs fine from within Maemo.

One question: all my menu items, buttons, etc have messed up labels (tana_fi_utilities instead of Utilities, etc). This has been the case even with a fresh install. Boo
ting into it, the labels are fine. Problem/Normal/Fix?

Battery app shows full. Clicking shows battery status not found. I do have advanced power installed in maemo (this is causing a conflict, correct?).

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 292308)

So the problem is in the current version of Ubuntu Jaunty armel OpenOffice.org. :(

Thanks!

Are you also observing the problem that upon launching OOO3 does not longer put an icon on the task sidebar?

OOO3's database program is also crashing, the Java problem previously reported.

When I played with configuring an easy-mer v12 about a month ago, I swear I had observed Abiword working fine, ie., interacting Ok with the Hildon keyboard and not going into CPU looks... well, under v13 of mer, Abiword is again unuseable... but more annoying I can't get Abiword to work ok even under mer v12... I have no idea what has changed. There was an update of your scripts, I think, but that should have little bearing on these problems... I'd be curious if Abiword works at all under a native mer setup.

--denis

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292118)

However, wifi doesn't work? No status bar icon, won't find networks (using connection manager).

I disable network-manager as part of my Easy Mer process. It doesn't work under Maemo, and I wrote my own little applet in Python to replace it (with daperl's help).

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292118)

Powerbutton doesn't work either, powerlaunch problem? Need to pull the battery.

I don't have any idea why that's a problem. Again, I wrote my own battery application, but I didn't disable anything power-related in Mer.

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292118)

Reboot into Maemo, can't run Easy-Mer. It will work fine again if you fsck the partition first.

No idea why that's a problem, either.

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292508)

Wow. I think I know what's going on there. My Easy Mer partition has two little startup scripts in the Easy Mer rootfs:

/var/run/onfirstchroot.rc and /var/run/onfirstchroot-ext.rc

Copy those two files into your Bootable Mer partition and those bad theme things won't happen again. One of the things those startup scripts do is to "unhook" the user's Maemo home directory and Mer home directory. If you don't unhook them, then Mer tries to use the desktop settings from Maemo and then you get... well, what you described.

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292508)

One question: all my menu items, buttons, etc have messed up labels (tana_fi_utilities instead of Utilities, etc). This has been the case even with a fresh install. Boo
ting into it, the labels are fine. Problem/Normal/Fix?

This sounds like a localization problem. Your tablet's locale probably doesn't align with Mer's locale. You have to change your locale as follows (from my blog):

Setting Locale:

Changing locales in Ubuntu is ugly, even "broken," as described here. This is what I do (from within the chroot) to get en_GB (my Maemo locale) set up in the chroot. From within the chroot:

Code:

cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en_GB

vim /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292508)

Battery app shows full. Clicking shows battery status not found. I do have advanced power installed in maemo (this is causing a conflict, correct?).

Ah, that's my fault again. I forgot to add the "battery-status" package to my dependencies. In Maemo, as root, you can do "apt-get install battery-status" to fix that.

I think I've got lots of things to fix for a new version!

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by delaroca (Post 292668)

Are you also observing the problem that upon launching OOO3 does not longer put an icon on the task sidebar?

No... Works here, although not properly themed (another fix for the next version!)

Are you installing openoffice.org-gtk?

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Originally Posted by delaroca (Post 292668)

...under v13 of mer, Abiword is again unuseable... but more annoying I can't get Abiword to work ok even under mer v12... I have no idea what has changed. There was an update of your scripts, I think, but that should have little bearing on these problems... I'd be curious if Abiword works at all under a native mer setup.

Someone reported that disabling spellcheck seems to have very positive effects on Abiword's performance. Any comments about that?

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

I noticed that about abiword on my french unit ... it became a lot more stable after turnig off spellchecking ... but still froze from time to time ... so i use OOo with Qole's Easy debian ...

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

Perhaps an easy question... when I install Easy-Mer, I can no longer run Easy Debian... is there an "easy" fix for this? I hate to give up one to test another. Thanks again. Oh, and Qole, re my twit, I was the twit, it was a user error and your repository worked just fine. :(

Thanks for the great work you are doing. Makes the tablet so much more fun to use.

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

thorbo:

You just have to change your /home/user/.chroot file. This is a settings file.

When you installed Easy Mer, your Easy Debian .chroot file got moved to .chroot.old.mer and the Easy Mer .chroot file took its place.

If you want to switch between Easy Debian and Easy Mer, just swap the .chroot files. First make a copy of the Easy Mer .chroot file (only do this once)

Code:

cp .chroot .chroot.new.mer

If you've been using your Easy Whatever, you'll probably need to close it before switching:

Code:

sudo closechroot

Now, you can switch with one cp command. To change to Easy Debian:

Code:

cp .chroot.old.mer .chroot

To switch back to Easy Mer:

Code:

cp .chroot.new.mer .chroot

You can also use both simultaneously, using qchroot.

For example, to run the Mer version of OpenOffice 3 Writer:

Code:

sudo qchroot /media/mmc1/mer_013-1.img.ext2 /mer "su user -c oowriter"

Or to use the Debian version of Abiword:

Code:

sudo qchroot /media/mmc2/debian.img.ext2 /debian "su user -c abiword"

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 292118)

So far:
Powerbutton doesn't work either, powerlaunch problem? Need to pull the battery. Reboot into Maemo, can't run Easy-Mer. It will work fine again if you fsck the partition first.

Pulling the battery left the file system corrupt (ext3), it won't mount unless you force it or fsck first. My fault there. The second time I tried I ran powerlaunch from xterm and got the power button working to shutdown/reboot. No corrupt file system that way, no need to fsck.

I'll try the other things you mentioned. Thanks

Re: Prerelease: Easy Mer

Quote:

Originally Posted by qole (Post 292684)

Someone reported that disabling spellcheck seems to have very positive effects on Abiword's performance. Any comments about that?

Ok, the missing taskbar icon for ooo3 was due to my having unistalled openoffice.org-gtk!

Re Abiword, disabling both automatic spell-checking and grammar-checking *does* seem to free much needed cpu cycles... but alas that's only the beginning of the woes with Abiword.

Example: load of a 20-page doc in spanish proceeds ok, even the language locale is set correctly... scrolling thru the documents is quick, so far so good!

Tapping on the text window to activate the hildon keyboard doesn't work... so I hit the center key on the D-pad and shazam Abiword hard-crashes!

Next test: with the above file opened, open another app, say osso-xterm, and switch to / from it... Abiword starts using close to 100% cpu usage.

In contrast, an app such as Gnumeric is a dream... quiick to launch, quick to open .xls spreadsheets and a mere stylus tap on an iinput field brings up the hildon keyboard. I wish Abiword were this well behaved!

--denis

Edit: When launching Midori, the following D-bus related warninng comes up, is it significant?

Code:

process 869: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory

See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.