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Zaurus - pdaXrom / two way backdrops

« on: October 24, 2004, 07:15:46 am »

I noticed strange behaviour when a backdrop larger than 640x480 is used on pdaxrom rc5. I made a backdrop that used this to it's advantage, what do you think? Anyone done this sort of thing before?

http://littlethorpe.net/2way-pdaxrom-car.jpg

-Cam

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Firefox / Thunderbird tweaks

« on: June 26, 2004, 06:32:09 pm »

I found the magic words to fix the overly large thunderbird fonts:

In the userChrome.css file add:

.tree-rows {
    font-size: 10pt !important;
}

Also as a general rule you can use DOMinspector on a desktop Mozilla to find the names of GUI parts so you can control their appearance. Please report any further improvements especially with the dialogs...

-Cam

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.0.5 ROM wireless config problem

« on: June 13, 2004, 06:13:58 am »

I found the lan config didn\'t work, but I was able to make a workaround.

Edit the /etc/pcmcia/hermes file according to this:

< export WIRELESS_USE=$0
---
> export WIRELESS_USE=

Now the link is started properly. If the WIRELESS_USE is set then the later scripts look for a nonexistent config file to find the ESSID and KEY parameters.

Also note that to use authenticated networks with WEP you have to set shared key mode. To do this edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and add restricted in front of the key eg.

    KEY=\"restricted 733647795839439857632857845785\"

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Firefox / Thunderbird tweaks

« on: June 13, 2004, 05:34:56 am »

The screenshots in the pdaXrom site don\'t do justice to the Mozilla apps. Here\'s some things you can do to improve them.

* change the toolbars: View/Toolbars/Customize...
  - drag the google search off the toolbar to get a bigger url entry area
  - set the toolar to use Icons and tick \'Small Icons\'
  - disable the bookmarks toolbar for an extra line of webpage
* Change the options: Tools/Options...
  - Fonts, choose smaller ones like Proportional size 12, Bitstream Vera Serif/Sans/Sans Mono size 10, minimum font size none
* low level stuff: change the menu and dialog font sizes:
  - edit /home/root/.phoenix/default/*/chrome/userChrome.css

menupopup ] * {
  font-size: 12pt !important
}

and so on. (basically uncomment parts of the example file that is provided and rename to userChrome.css). I found that a 12pt size was suitable for me.

For thunderbird, do pretty much the same with the .thunderbird directory.

* for thunderbird turn off Junk mail controls because they will force a read of every message to see if it\'s junk! Not wise if you are on GPRS.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Mailing list...

« on: June 13, 2004, 04:57:20 am »

Is there a proper mailing list for pdaXrom users/developers?