jgallen23 | # 141 | 2008-04-23, 17:02 | Report

is there any way to start the connection dialog from the personal menu?

fiferboy | # 142 | 2008-04-23, 18:43 | Report

If you add the application "Connection Manager" from the "Select from installed applications" that should get what you need.

jgallen23 | # 143 | 2008-04-23, 19:23 | Report

is there anyway to get the select connection dialog?

fiferboy | # 144 | 2008-04-23, 19:26 | Report

If you mean the popup you get when clicking on the connection statusbar item, there is most likely some way to access it with dbus.

I found this page: http://maemo.org/development/documen...ity_guide.html

But when I try executing the dbus command, it says com.nokia.icd_ui is not registered by any service files. I have had this problem with chinook before, trying to send statusbar a DBUS signal.

Does anyone know how to get this to work?

jgallen23 | # 145 | 2008-04-24, 05:36 | Report

did you execute with --system?

oldskool | # 146 | 2008-05-01, 07:05 | Report

Thanks for a great program.

I wanted to use the terminal mode to interact with a few scripts I wrote, and I didn't want the two terminal windows to run. I tried communicating via environment variables, but osso-xterm doesn't pass them along to the child shell process. I finally came up with a (somewhat hackish) workaround that seems to do the trick.

First, I created a /home/user/.profile with the following:

runscript="/tmp/.runscript_$USER"
myscript="/tmp/.myscript_$$"
if [ -f $runscript ]
then

mv $runscript $myscript
sh $myscript
rm $myscript
sleep 10
kill $PPID

fi

This allows the shell running under osso-xterm to find the script it is to run. I.e. the script is in the /tmp directory. As soon as it is recognized, it is renamed to avoid duplicate invocations. Once the script completes, this code leaves the screen up for 10 seconds so you can read the results, and then kills the osso-xterm (the parent process).

To use it, I created the following script, which I launch from the personal menu:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wired ethernet start
#
echo sudo /home/user/startEth0 > /tmp/.runscript_user
osso-xterm

With that, you get a single xterminal running with one toolbar where you can interact with the script. Once complete, it exits automatically.

Perhaps others may want to use the same technique.

GeraldKo | # 147 | 2008-05-14, 17:03 | Report

fiferboy, if there is a way that an additional PM icon-set could be made to occupy a second of the three task navigator sidebar slots, could you provide instructions?

I'm hoping, also, that you saw my post suggesting that someday you make a multiple-icon-set PM with the ability to password protect one of them. Used in conjunction with xautomation's xte, it would be a dynamite, one-click password manager.

Also, let me say thanks again for Personal Menu. By far, it's my favorite enhancement to the Tablet interface. It's tremendously elegant, useful, and easy-to-use. You really aced it.

fiferboy | # 148 | 2008-05-14, 17:19 | Report

GeraldKo: I will see what I can work up.

My main issue with multiple instances is how to relate each instance with its configuration file. The easiest way is to hard-code a separate configuration file for the second instance. Then there would also need to be separate control panel plugins ("Personal Menu 1", "Personal Menu 2"?) to set each of them up. And separate icons to tell them apart. And then what if someone wants three?

I would like to come up with a better way to do this (for control panel, have a drop down to select which instance you are setting up), but I haven't figured out what to do with the configuration file relationship or icon yet.

Benson | # 149 | 2008-05-14, 17:33 | Report

Well, I was trying this:
And it won't even give me an error...
I assume I'm doing something wrong, then, but I really don't know what. What were you trying?

fiferboy | # 150 | 2008-05-14, 17:44 | Report

Benson: Try putting '--print-reply' in your command and see what it says. I was trying that method, but I don't remember if I tried '--system'