[How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 ! - Page 16 - maemo.org

Matan | # 151 | 2010-06-04, 15:38 | Report

See here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53651

Notes:

With this version you can select which views to enable from the GUI. The dialog which shows 4 screens is horizontally scrollable.

Running the commands (as user)

Code:

cd /home/user/.backgrounds/
rm cache.info
cp background-1.png background-5.png
cp background-1.png background-6.png
cp background-1.png background-7.png
cp background-1.png background-8.png
cp background-1.png background-9.png

should allow for selecting background from the GUI, without the black screen problems.

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michalurban | # 152 | 2010-06-04, 17:06 | Report

Thanks a lot, Im up-and-runing already!

keiel | # 153 | 2010-06-05, 06:55 | Report

Originally Posted by Matan View Post

See here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53651

Notes:

With this version you can select which views to enable from the GUI. The dialog which shows 4 screens is horizontally scrollable.

Running the commands (as user)

Code:

cd /home/user/.backgrounds/
rm cache.info
cp background-1.png background-5.png
cp background-1.png background-6.png
cp background-1.png background-7.png
cp background-1.png background-8.png
cp background-1.png background-9.png

should allow for selecting background from the GUI, without the black screen problems.

I could use alittle help please.
I installed hildon-home_0.3.66-2+0m5_armel fresh after pr1.2
(i did not try 9 desktops prior to pr1.2)
ran these codes
"cd /home/user/.backgrounds/
rm cache.info
cp background-1.png background-5.png
cp background-1.png background-6.png
cp background-1.png background-7.png
cp background-1.png background-8.png
cp background-1.png background-9.png"

I see the 9 screens on the active view manager, checked all 9, but only the default 4 shows up

thanks

keiel | # 154 | 2010-06-05, 07:05 | Report

stupid me, i forgot to install teh modified hildon =O
yes i am dumb lol
Thank you for all your hard work XD

michalurban | # 155 | 2010-06-05, 11:04 | Report

Originally Posted by keiel View Post

stupid me, i forgot to install teh modified hildon =O
yes i am dumb lol
Thank you for all your hard work XD

I wanted to use 8 screens with that water theme (you know, water1 to water4 and then water1 to water4 again - so the loop would be still functional) ... but when I enter the adresses of those files, it only changes the backgrounds of the first four screens. When I tried to change the bg via GUI, its makes nothing. It stays black (probably cause Ive used a black 800x480px black-only jpg in the beginning) ...

ADD. If I use the commands to change one of the first screens to either black or water, it works. But not for the higher numbers ... Restart didnt work either ...

Matan | # 156 | 2010-06-05, 11:16 | Report

Are you sure that modified-hildon-desktop and my hildon-home package are installed?

What is the output from:

Code:

ls -l /home/user/.backgrounds/
cat /home/user/.backgrounds/cache.info
gconftool -R /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views

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michalurban | # 157 | 2010-06-05, 11:22 | Report

Code:

[1|root@Nokia-N900|~]ls -l /home/user/.backgrounds/
-rw-r--r--    1 user     users      793003 Jun  5 13:02 background-1.png
-rw-r--r--    1 user     users      826268 Jun  5 13:01 background-2.png
-rw-r--r--    1 user     users      777345 Jun  5 13:02 background-3.png
-rw-r--r--    1 user     users      824404 Jun  5 13:02 background-4.png
-rw-r--r--    1 user     users         313 Jun  5 13:02 cache.info
[1|root@Nokia-N900|~]cat /home/user/.backgrounds/cache.info

[Background-Info]
Version=1
File-0=file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images/water1.jpg
Etag-0=1269961136:0
File-1=file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images/water2.jpg
Etag-1=1269961136:0
File-2=file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images/water3.jpg
Etag-2=1269961136:0
File-3=file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
Etag-3=1269961136:0
[1|root@Nokia-N900|~]gconftool -R /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views
 current = 4
 active = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/1:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water1.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/2:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water2.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/3:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water3.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/4:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water1.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/6:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water2.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/7:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water3.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/8:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/9:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/none.jpg

Matan | # 158 | 2010-06-05, 11:32 | Report

See posts 18 ans 19 in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53651

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michalurban | # 159 | 2010-06-05, 12:04 | Report

Originally Posted by Matan View Post

See posts 18 ans 19 in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53651

I afraid I dont full understand - Ive made copies of the backgroud files inside .backgrounds folder and deleted cache.info file ... then reboot ... after reboot, I found out that the cache.info file is back and contains 4 correct entries for the first four background. But I still cannot change the BG, even after Ive copied the entries in cache file and adjusted their numbers ...

Code:

[1|root@Nokia-N900|~]gconftool -R /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views
 current = 8
 active = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/1:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/2:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water2.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/3:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water3.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/4:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water1.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/6:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water2.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/7:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water3.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/8:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/water4.jpg
 /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/9:
  bg-image = /home/user/MyDocs/.images/none.jpg

Matan | # 160 | 2010-06-05, 12:17 | Report

What is the output from

Code:

ls -l /usr/bin/hildon-*

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