Addison | # 171 | 2011-10-29, 07:44 | Report

Okay, so going back on my previous question...

I can finally get an F3 signal sent 100% of the time now if I have this in my script.

xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'
xte 'keydown F3' 'keyup F3'

I don't understand why I have to force this so many times.

Besides that, it's a little laggy doing it this way.

Any possible clues or a different direction I can take here?

Kind regards.

maacruz | # 172 | 2011-10-29, 11:52 | Report

Instead of sending a stream of fast key pressings, try to send the keydown event, wait a bit, and then the keyup event. May be that works
Since "sleep" in ash only accepts an integer number of seconds, I'm using here usleep (which I provide with snx and accepts a number of microseconds).
Unless you use bash to run your script, then you could use sleep

Addison | # 173 | 2011-10-29, 23:11 | Report

xte 'keydown F3'
sleep 0.1
xte 'keyup F3'
xkbd -geometry +65509+140 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/scumm.xkbd & echo $! >/tmp/xkbd2.pid

and

xte 'keydown F3'
/usr/share/snx/usleep 100000
xte 'keyup F3'
xkbd -geometry +65509+140 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/scumm.xkbd & echo $! >/tmp/xkbd2.pid

both crashed my tablet.

The keyboard wouldn't display in the correct position for either one of these scripts, didn't function at all, major screen weirdness, couldn't even lock the tablet and had to yank the battery both times after 10 minutes each time.

It's not that important so I'm just going to give up on the whole F3 keypress.

It works perfectly without it.

I really need to stop being so greedy at times.

Addison | # 174 | 2011-10-30, 17:34 | Report

When I tap on either side of the screen, it will bring up the virtual keyboard.

How can I make it so that this only happens just once?

A double tap by accident will stack two of them on top of each other, still leaving one of them on the screen after the other one closes.

This is the script I'm using to launch it.

xkbd -geometry +65509+140 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/scumm.xkbd & echo $! >/tmp/xkbd2.pid

Cheers.

maacruz | # 175 | 2011-10-30, 20:43 | Report

Test if the pid file exists to launch xkbd
Make sure you delete the pid file in the kill script.

Addison | # 176 | 2011-10-30, 22:23 | Report

Thank you Mac!

That works perfectly after adding one space before the right bracket.

if [ ! -e /tmp/xkbd2.pid ]; then

Addison | # 177 | 2011-10-31, 06:41 | Report

Would anyone be willing to take a look at Necroplayer?

It's looks quite promising.

I believe it takes around 18 megs to install this.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=79384

Thanks guys.

lma | # 178 | 2011-10-31, 12:23 | Report

xte actually contains sleep/usleep commands as well, so the above could be streamlined into one process:

No idea why something like that would crash the tablet though :-(

Addison | # 179 | 2011-10-31, 22:34 | Report

That actually worked...

about 10% of the time. *lol*

I'm just giving up on this but thank you for the reply lma.

Addison | # 180 | 2011-11-01, 02:17 | Report

This is going to sound so stupid...

How can I uninstall what I did here?

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

and

dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-extra_0.10.6-0osso22-2_armel.deb


Neither of these show up in the App Manager.