imo | # 91 | 2012-08-26, 23:29 | Report

it worked on my N900 after a reboot with cssu stable.
just one thing,the dull grey look does not suit very well to the screen,can it be more shiny and colorful?if so please do it,it would look brilliant indeed.

TransTech | # 92 | 2012-08-26, 23:36 | Report

do you have qt-lockscreen? can i see a pic of it...

thanks..

imo | # 93 | 2012-08-26, 23:48 | Report

yes i do have qt lockscreen,but unfortunatey trans ,photobucket cant be opened in my N900,no proxy in my N900,frigging china,but hopefully i will post the snap tomorrow

hxka | # 94 | 2012-08-27, 16:59 | Report

There is a source of text2screen alternative: https://github.com/slonopotamus/fb_text2screen
Though I don't think it will help as it is not support non-ascii characters anyway.

hxka | # 95 | 2012-08-27, 17:10 | Report

I was wrong blaming upstart for non-stopping timenow.conf, it's not it's fault.
When it starts timenow.conf, it actually starts su, which starts run-standalone-sh, which starts timenowd.
There are two problems:
1. busybox-power (su is busybox) doesn't send SIGHUP to it's child processes sometimes (in this case it doesn't). So, if you have busybox-power installed, when you stop timenow.conf, upstart kills su, but run-standalone.sh and timenowd keep running.
2. Your program does not die when it receive SUGHUP. So, even if you haven't busybox-power installed, when you stop timenowd.conf, upstart kills su, which kills run-standalone.sh, which kills timenowd, but it ignores that and keeps running.

TransTech | # 96 | 2012-08-27, 23:02 | Report

Does anyone know how to get it working... I tried reinstalling and rebooting but no progress yet... I also tried covering proximity sensor and uncovering it...

P.s. More info I also have Kernel Power v51

hxka | # 97 | 2012-08-28, 04:25 | Report

Try this:
stop timenow.conf
killall timenowd
start proximityd
start timenow.conf

Kossuth | # 98 | 2012-08-28, 06:25 | Report

Thanks hxka,

I got mine working after your instructions:

(I had maybe the same problem as TransTech)

TransTech | # 99 | 2012-08-28, 20:24 | Report

A Big Thank you @hxka... you made my day... .... its working smoothly...

Edited:
@qwazix... a BIG thank you to you too... btw I have a small request...
1. can you move the time and date to center of the screen and any way to soften the font (just like on N9...)

because the current one looks like it have come from minecraft game... lol

2. and possibly a config file just like qt lockscreen to set the one we like...

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qwazix | # 100 | 2012-08-28, 21:47 | Report

Unfortunately none of your requests can be completed without modifying hildon-desktop. The reason that the font is like that and that it doesn't support unicode is that I am using the text2screen command that writes text directly to the framebuffer. A configuration file is on my mind and I may do it, so that users can choose what to display, and maybe change the color too.

Two things I am missing and any help would be appreciated:
A way to force a redraw of the screen after unlock so fullscreen (uncomposited) apps don't break and a way to detect the phone bug as described a few posts above.

Note to self: study how to receive sighup and shut down

Thanks to everybody for testing.

Btw it's not grey, it's white, just the backlight is too dim for powersaving reasons.

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Last edited by qwazix; 2012-08-28 at 21:50.