mrmoosehead | # 181 | 2010-03-09, 12:38 | Report

Did anyone ever get as far as compiling a list of useful scripts? A wiki or the like?

kd_alex | # 182 | 2010-03-10, 01:25 | Report

I tried this. On the widget i get invalid command. I tried this command in the X-terminal to get this response:

'rootsh is now deprecated for it poses too much of a security risk. However, you can still obtain a root shell by running the commands root or sudo root.'

What if I make a script file to perform the task in two steps (I.e. gain root, execute lirc start) and then have the widget run the script file? I'll try that.

Thanks for the idea!

Addison | # 183 | 2010-03-11, 02:38 | Report

Is this something that might also work under Diablo?

kd_alex | # 184 | 2010-03-12, 01:56 | Report

If by Diablo you mean Maemo 4.X, I have no idea. I am using Maemo 5.

mjec | # 185 | 2010-03-12, 07:34 | Report

Always use sudo visudo for this.

Update: see Rob1n's post for a better way to do this using /etc/sudoers.d

Just going right ahead and editing it can be extremely dangerous; messing up the file on a limited permissions system like the N900 can cause brickage.

You probably want to add the command to the sudoers file and then have

echo "" && sudo echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness

as your DCE script. We begin with echo "" as DCEW doesn't like getting no output.

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mjec | # 186 | 2010-03-12, 07:54 | Report

Apologies for the double post

To get the top two applications I use top -bn 1 | grep -v top | head -n 5 | tail -n 2. This will always exclude top itself. You should also give due consideration to having a .toprc file (see the top man page for details). Beware though: having this widget uses a surprising amount of CPU, so only refresh occasionally (i.e. probably not on switch and every minute).

To get more you have to change n for both head and tail (i.e. for top three apps it's head -n 6 | tail -n 3, for top one is head -n 4 | tail -n 1).

x-lette | # 187 | 2010-03-12, 11:36 | Report

Might be more useful having the empty echo as a result of the actual command. This way you get noticed in case something goes wrong:

sudo echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness && echo "" || echo "Error!"

In case everything was OK the output is empty, if there was any error, the output will be "Errror!".

Rob1n | # 188 | 2010-03-12, 11:58 | Report

You don't actually want to be editing sudoers directly at all on the N900. You should add a new config file into the /etc/sudoers.d directory and call update-sudoers instead.

fpp | # 189 | 2010-03-12, 12:11 | Report

Good news... and what do you think of my request (and a couple of others) to allow icons as well as text for the widget caption ? :-)

rooted | # 190 | 2010-03-14, 14:20 | Report

http://wiki.maemo.org/Desktop_Comman...Widget_scripts

You're welcome. It needs only to be put in appropriate categories and missing and/or new scripts must be added!