Latest revision as of 19:34, 8 June 2010

[edit] Minimoko: fast and lean Desktop

--matzehuber 16:30, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

I used shr unstable with all updates until 2009-10-15 and made some changes on it.

• windowmanager: openbox and obconf (patched few lines of code)
• desktop-software(icons): idesk
• keyboard: literki
• screenlock: xtrlock (modified)
• desktop-status: xminimokostatus (new written, uses dbus in C/glib)

[edit] Screenshots

left side screenshots are with normal theme, the right theme is "Mikachu"

[edit] Download

• Full Image [1]http://www.huber-computer.de/openmoko/minimoko.tbz (~80 MB)
• Diff between shr-u and Minimoko: [2]http://www.huber-computer.de/openmoko/minimoko_diff.tbz (~13 MB)
• Update-Package from 1. Version to actual [3]http://www.huber-computer.de/openmoko/minimoko_update.tbz (~1 MB)

[edit] Install

untar it onto an ext3-sdcard. nothing more is to do. boot with qi. you need ~243 MB on the card.

[edit] Documentation Links

• openbox: http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page
• obconf: http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/ObConf
• idesk: http://idesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[edit] Usage

It bases on shr, so the base is shr-like. If you want to get illume, just rename .Xsession to .Xsession.unused

[edit] Tips

• When you use obconf, the configuration is "copied" into .config/openbox/rc.xml and furthermore used from there
• Minimized Windows are excluded from the slide function, you have to bring them up with menu -> windows
• To bring the keyboard up, slide from bottom right up and slide down to bring it down
• one can have the icons moveable, but the screen is flickering while moving. to do this, one can edit .ideskrc

[edit] Knobs, touches ...

• single click on an icon starts the program which lays behind .idesktop/<application>.lnk
• AUX locks the screen with xtrlock. Pressing one more AUX unlocks the screen
• POWER short pressed suspends
• POWER for more or equal 2 Seconds shuts the system down with init 0
• Slide(drag to the right, for example) on the top bar of an application switches to the next application
• Double Click on the topbar of an application shows the Main Menu
• Double Click on the empty desktop shows the Main Menu
• On the left of the topbar is the knob for minimizing the app, on the right topbar is the close knob

[edit] Menus

if you installed new applications and want the menu updated, use:

 /usr/bin/makemenus

after that, you can remove unused menuitems in /etc/xdg/openbox/openmoko.menu

[edit] Sources / Patches / Binaries

• openbox needed to have a little patch because of the behavior of the om-applications: client.patch and prompt.patch
• NEW VERSION: client_new.patch prompt-patch not more needed. With this patch openbox is able to hadle rotated display with xrandr.
• xminimokostatus can be found here: xminimokostatus.tgz. it is now also able to handle rotated display. Lic: GPL_newest
• the patched xtrlock can be found here: xtrlock-2.0_patched.tgz
• idesk binary: idesk-0.7.5_0.1_armv4t.ipk sourcedir with compiled binary: idesk-0.7.5.tbz
• not more used: i wrote a little helper, which places text on the root window: xroottext.tgz Lic: GPL_newest