qole | # 151 | 2008-08-19, 23:43 | Report

Another update!

QTParted seems to do what GParted cannot: It can resize fat32 partitions!

I'm trying it out on my 160GB USB HDD right now; I'm shrinking the fat32 partition to 133 GB and adding a 16 GB ext3 partition.

EDIT:
QTParted is great. It seems much more polished than GParted; it doesn't need a list of devices (it detects them all) and it has better info.

Here's a screenshot post-successful-repartition!



EDIT2: It doesn't seem to handle the SD cards very well, however. It shows every partition as a separate device. I wonder if that's an artifact of the chroot mounting process? Hmm.

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BrentDC | # 152 | 2008-08-20, 00:57 | Report

This is actually more complicated than you'd think.

ooo-gulls.png is located in "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/"

You want to place your icons there, too, with a size of 64x64. Once you do that, you'll want to link to it in your .desktop, but you don't need to use the entire patth, just it's name (I think?). Then you want to run this command in the terminal as root:

It should now work, tell me how it goes.

BrentDC | # 153 | 2008-08-20, 03:15 | Report

Hey, no problem.

You know as Debian becomes more and more popular, it will become a support nightmare; there seems to ba a lot of little tricks to know.

You should probably create a PDF doc of all about what exactly debian is, what your chroot scripts do, where deban is mounted, how the [root@debian] prompt works, how to create application menu items, how to use Synaptic to manage installed programs, different commands to launch apps (hilda, etc.), warnings to be careful not to run out of room, not run apps as root, advanced user section on how to create and install debian on an ext partition, where the chroot scripts are stored, tips & tricks, great applications, etc. You know, just something to start with And what would be cool, would be if during installation of Easy-Debian, copying this file to the users ~/.documents/ directory.

qole | # 154 | 2008-08-20, 04:37 | Report

yeaahh... I'll be glad to proof-read your attempt

I would be glad to help build a Debian wiki entry over at maemo.org, but it really is an immense amount of work to do that sort of stuff. It seems to me that this whole thing is advanced enough that someone can do some searching to find the info they need, or ask their questions in this forum.

My opening post on Easy Debian is right at the edge of the size limit as it is...

dan | # 155 | 2008-08-20, 05:13 | Report

Guys I don't know if this is a first or what but my crash earlier produced an unbelievable event that I think is laying dormant in the Nxx's. Remember how I mentioned earlier that I had a mouse pointer. Well I connected a bluetooth mouse and it not only worked(it didn't before only wireless mouses, but I have right click in Hildon, KDE, and all of the apps in Easy Debian!!!! I'm finding menus in Debian I did not see before. QTStalker lite up with menus everywhere. I'm trying to do screenshots but I can't find where loadapplet is now sending my screenshot same for IceWM. Anyone care to tell me how I can fix this.
Hey I want to help with debian. As you can see I'm great at testing destructively wrong ways to go about doing commands and I never panic when hell breaks lose. Hehehehe. Seriously I want to help. Don't know anything about apps or code but I like doing crazy stuff. I work insane hours but in my freetime I can contribute. Thanks for all your help today. let's find this hidden mouse feature that Nokia has buried in its darkest code chamber.

qole | # 156 | 2008-08-20, 05:46 | Report

Dan, did you have any of the mouse-related packages installed on your tablet?
What you're suggesting is that something in the /home/user directory (which you nuked) is suppressing mouse-related behaviors. That's weird!

dan | # 157 | 2008-08-20, 06:25 | Report

I had no mouse related stuff. I reflashed about a week ago and reformatted my sdhc cards. I nuked everything not just the directory. Web, hildon, etc... only thing that was not hit was Easy Debian and that's because I had it on mmc1. Everything on mmc2 was nuked even dual boot. That's why I'm thinking Nokia has full mouse functions surpressed. Mouse is fantastic especially now on hildon main screen and in Debian screen and all apps.

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dan | # 158 | 2008-08-20, 06:50 | Report

BrentDc the actual size was 48x48 but it still doesn't work. Now I have even uglier small square boxes. Any ideas? It is the right path. I'm also getting in xterm when I type emelfm2 I get the following message, ' /home/user/.osso/current-gtk-key-theme:1: Unable to find include file: "keybindings.rc" ' Any ideas. I might just uninstall emelfm2 and reinstall but I don't know if that will create more problems. TIA

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BrentDC | # 159 | 2008-08-20, 15:28 | Report

I think that has something to do with you blowing up /home/user/...Maybe that's why the icons aren't working?

dan | # 160 | 2008-08-20, 17:12 | Report

BrentDc If I go and put ooo-gulls.png on any app in that folder it changes icon to ooo-gulls.png and if I change it back it to its original .png it goes back. Any ideas?
TIA