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Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

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Originally Posted by rebhana (Post 490671)

I installed cups to have network printing capabilities for the applications under easy-debian, which works like a charm. Anytime I chroot to Debian, I have my network printers available, but when I reboot the N900 itself, I need to

Code:

/etc/init.d/cups restart

once, but then it will be available for all easy-debian sessions, until I turn off the N900 again.

Anyone knows why? And how to make the startup of cups automatic?

Where did you get cups from? Unside easy debian or inside maemo?

I did apt-cache search cups and cupsys and got nothing.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

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Originally Posted by les_garten (Post 490691)

Where did you get cups from?

Under easy-debian! CUPS is then available for openoffice, but can also be used to print ps and pdf files downloaded under Maemo. See my post in the thread "Printers and N900":
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...369#post490369

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

I reflashed my phone and now everything works fine but ther is no Gimp anymore. OO works OK. What did I do wrong?

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

For those who are still looking for a reader for djvu files, which are not read by FBReader afaik:

The Debian package djview installed fine under Easy Debian, and so I have now a very nice reader for my collection of dvju files. To start by an application icon, I added the file djview.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Encoding=UTF-8

Name=djview

Icon=FBReader

Exec=debbie djview

Type=Application

to the folder /usr/share/applications/hildon. (For the icon I just used that from FBReader.)

(In fact, I start with

Code:

Exec=debbie djview /home/user/MyDocs/Books/DJV/oneofmy.djvu

so that I don't have to click through to that folder which holds my djvu files.)

The only glitch is that after switching to full screen I cannot go back, because the keyboard doesn't have F11 or Escape, so I then have to close by Ctrl-Backspace and exiting after that. (Or is there some trick to have those function keys other than remapping the keyboard?)

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

@rebhana: do you find that djview is superior to evince? I'm interested in your experience.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

nice and well written.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

Amazing news, but it would be great to see open Office directly on maemo without debian need.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

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Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 491864)

@rebhana: do you find that djview is superior to evince? I'm interested in your experience.

I haven't tried out evince, because it seemed to require a couple of upgrades, and since Easy Debian warns against upgrades, I didn't do it. Do you have evince installed? Djview is comparatively small, I think, so you could simply try it out and compare!

EDIT: I now also installed evince (after a backup of my Debian image file), and also that went without any problem. Both djview and evince work fine for displaying my djvu files. Evince has the advantage that I can get back from full-screen mode, because it is not entirely full-screen and keeps a button for going back. (With presentation mode I have the same problem of not being able to back. Moreover, I then need to edit/delete the file /home/user/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml so that I can open the file without immediately going to presentation mode.) Djview however has the advantage that I can scroll down on a given page without the stylus, just with the touchscreen.

So I guess I'll continue using djview for my djvu files, but evince will be my pdf reader in place of the built-in one whenever I need to be able to do more than just having a quick look, such as searching for text.

I'm really overwhelmed by how much the installation of Easy Debian just 1 1/2 days ago has added to my N900: not only openoffice and the gimp, but after a few apt-get install's also network printing through CUPS, djview, evince, gv, and grace (a scientific plotting tool). I'm now tempted to continue by installing xmaxima, the open-source symbolic math program preceding maple and mathematica I've been working with during my PhD thesis, which back then required a serious mainframe computer...

EDIT2: I found that my installation of evince under Easy Debian crashes on opening postscript files. @debernardis: Are you able to open postscript files with evince?

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

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Originally Posted by drm (Post 491888)

Amazing news, but it would be great to see open Office directly on maemo without debian need.

Starting openoffice through debbie and an application icon, it actually feels like being directly on maemo! See http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2...p-on-the-n900/ for the how-to.

In fact, it has a big advantage having this monster within Debian chroot. If something gets screwed up with it, it will only be the Debian image, which can be easily reinstalled - you won't have to reflash your whole device!

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

I have found a way to deal with dialog boxes appearing in openoffice.org running under lxde not fitting to the screen:

In the terminal open in lxde type:

xmodmap -e "keysym ISO_Level3_Shift = Alt_L"

Now Alt-space will pop-up the window operations menu. Using the stylus, choose move, and you can move the dialog around. It works also when the title bar is outside of the screen.

It could probably be put in some startup file.
Leaving only the left, vertical panel, adding the menu to it and removing the top panel leaves much more screen area for the editor, you can also remove decorations from the editor window.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

I have now also succeeded in installing xmaxima, an open-source alternative to Mathematica and Maple, under Easy Debian. That part actually is completely trivial: just "apt-get install xmaxima".

Then it took me a while to find out why I couldn't have my input evaluated. Pressing the return key just did nothing. Finally I found out that under LXDE the return key had the value KP_Enter instead of Return, which for the other applications didn't seem to make a difference. Fixing that with

Code:

xmodmap -e "keycode 36 = Return"

solved the problem. I then used xmodmap also to have square brackets and other special characters on the hardware keyboard, and then everything worked.

I certainly prefer doing symbolic math on a laptop computer since it's quite tedious to type complicated expressions on this tiny keyboard. But the program itself runs very smoothly - one can even rotate those 3D plots with the cursor (=stylo)!

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

gwj: I have mapped Ctrl + . (period) in LXDE to trigger window move. You can then move too-big windows around. Works fine for me.

Sorry for not seeing this thread earlier.

EDIT: I love seeing others getting excited by this. Honestly, the N900 is the first Maemo device powerful enough to run these desktop apps. I almost use my N900 exclusively as my main computer these days...

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

Is it possible to make the keys working in the same way, as in maemo (double press of shift or alt locks the keys)?

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

Hey guys
I just installe Easy Debian but the IMG file that was downloaded on my N900 is only 290mb or so? Is it normal? It isn't 1.5gb at all...
I used the IMG file from maemo extras, not devel, but the IMG file should be the same, right?
Thanks for your help

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

Pleasee... Someone must know? If 300mb or so is normal, or what happened? Do I have a good version?

Thank you...!

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

Normal.
Just continue with the setup.

Re: OpenOffice.org and the Gimp on the N900

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Originally Posted by gtessier00 (Post 580428)

Pleasee... Someone must know?

For the benefit of those having stumbled upon Easy Debian through this thread, more complete information is available on this active thread and this wiki page.