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Software / Qscrobbler - A Last.fm / Audioscrobbler Client

« on: December 24, 2007, 11:07:07 am »

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All you Last.fm and Quasar users rejoice! I've released the first add-on for Quasar Media Player: QScrobbler
For now it is a simple Last.fm / Audioscrobbler client that will make use of Quasar's playback status propagation and scrobble all your played songs - even if your Zaurus is offline.
As with all of my software, QScrobbler is available for SharpROM- and pdaXrom-based distributions.

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For more details please visit the project’s homepage: http://katastrophos.net/qscrobbler

Please leave a comment and oh -
Happy Holidays everybody!

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Software / Quasar Media Player Released For Sharprom And Pdaxrom

« on: October 06, 2007, 01:27:08 pm »

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Finally! Almost a year after the first mentioning of my new media player for the Sharp Zaurus, I’m today officially releasing the Quasar Media Player for SharpROM- and pdaXrom-based distributions.
For more details please visit the project’s homepage: http://katastrophos.net/quasar

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Please leave a comment, thanks!

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Sharp ROMs / Fonts For Qtopia

« on: October 20, 2005, 10:46:00 pm »

Hey everybody,

I've put up two new fonts for Qtopia on my blog.
Basically it's an unhinted version of the Trebuchet font included with Cacko and an unhinted and converted version of Calibri:

Here is a comparison:

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Sharp ROMs / Unionfs, Mini_fo And Gzipfs Available

« on: September 23, 2005, 06:17:31 am »

Update: Please also check the update further down in this thread...

Hi everybody,

I'm currently experimenting with unionfs and gzipfs on Cacko 1.22. It's working quite good so far.
I'm using unionfs to stack a writeable ext2 filesystem onto a read-only squashfs'ed Debian image. This way I was able to reduce my Debian installation from 270 MB down to just 90 MB and it's still completely functional because all write operations are redirected to the writeable ext2 filesystem.
I'm just now adding gzipfs to this setup to compress the written content, so I only need to update the squashfs image once in a while. Gzipfs doesn't compress as good as squashfs but it's still better than no compression. And because it's also stacked onto an existing file system, everything is a bit more transparent and one doesn't need to waste precious space on a fixed sized image.

Performance is good for both squashfs/unionfs and gzipfs. Actually it seems to be faster reading the compressed files from the SD card than reading plain uncompressed files. I can only guess this is due to the bad SD performance in general.

If anybody wants to check it out, here are the patched sources, patches and compiled modules:

http://www.katastrophos.net/zaurus/sources/

Note: I've updated the zlib library in gzipfs from 1.1.3 to 1.2.3 since 1.2.x introduced some performance optimizations.

Further information are available here:
http://www.filesystems.org

Regards,
Andre

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Sharp ROMs / Zaurus 2.4.20 Kernel Sources?

« on: December 13, 2004, 11:57:05 am »

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / HOW TO: Brightness Buttons

« on: June 07, 2004, 12:34:23 am »

Hi everybody,

just stumbled over jgraves post here:
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...iewtopic&t=3262

It\'s very nice, but it needs xkeymouse to function properly.
I\'ve merged his scripts and got it working with the default openbox window manager. OpenBox can be configured with keymappings that can also execute apps or scripts. This is also the way changing the screen orientation works (that is: Sys_Req is triggered and openbox launches chkhinge).

Here is my merged version of jgraves\' scripts:

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/sh

# Get the current value

CURRENT_VALUE=`cat $HOME/Choices/common/backlight`

MIN_VALUE=0

MAX_VALUE=6



case "$1" in

up)

    #If it is not already at the max value, increment it one.

    if [ $CURRENT_VALUE = $MAX_VALUE ]; then

        NEW_VALUE=$(($CURRENT_VALUE))

    else

        NEW_VALUE=$(($CURRENT_VALUE+1))

    fi

   ;;

down)

    #If it is not already at the min, decrement it one and save it.

    if [ $CURRENT_VALUE = $MIN_VALUE ]; then

        NEW_VALUE=$(($CURRENT_VALUE))

    else

        NEW_VALUE=$(($CURRENT_VALUE-1))

    fi

   ;;

esac



setfl $NEW_VALUE

echo $NEW_VALUE > $HOME/Choices/common/backlight

UPDATE: I suggest using Zazz\' fl below instead of this merged script, as it is faster and doesn\'t stress the internal flash memory by writing the current brightness value over and over again.

Just save it into a file named light in /usr/local/bin and make it executable by chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/light.

You can now control the brightness level with
   light up
or
   light down

To make things work without using the terminal everytime, just add the following lines to the end of the <keyboard> element in the /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml (or $HOME/.config/openbox/rc.xml) file:

Code: [Select]

 

    light down

  

  

    light up

  

UPDATE: If you want to use Zazz\' fl below, just change light down to fl - and light up to fl +.

</keyboard> is the closing tag.

You\'ll need to restart either openbox or the whole X11. Simplest way is pressing CTRL-ALT-Backspace and just restarting the X11 Server via startx.
Using Fn-3 will lower the brightness, Fn-4 vice versa.

Please note, that this will only work, if you\'re using the openbox window manager. This is what comes with the default install of pdaXrom.

Regards,
evilJazz

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / HOW TO: Application-specific key mapping

« on: June 07, 2004, 12:10:17 am »

Hi everybody,

just finished a small launcher script. It will load a custom xmodmap keymap if available, start the application and reset the keymap if the app quits.

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#!/bin/bash



KBMODDIR=/etc/X11/kb

DEFAULT=$KBMODDIR/corgi.xmodmap



USERFILE=$KBMODDIR/$1.xmodmap



CUSTOMKEYMAP=0



if [ -e $USERFILE ]; then

    echo "using available custom keymap $USERFILE"

    xmodmap $USERFILE

    CUSTOMKEYMAP=1

fi



$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9



if [ $CUSTOMKEYMAP -eq 1 ]; then

    echo "resetting keymap"

    xmodmap $DEFAULT

fi

Just name it launch, put it into /usr/local/bin and make it executable via chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/launch.
It will look into /etc/X11/kb for application-specific keymaps.
For example, if I wanted to launch gqview I would start it by
launch gqview

The script would look into /etc/X11/kb for a file named gqview.xmodmap.
If it\'s found it will be loaded.

Here is the gqview.xmodmap example:

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! map scrollwheel up/right to "next picture"

keycode 134 = n



! map scrollwheel down/left to "previous picture"

keycode 133 = b



!map Cancel side-button to "Fullscreen"

keycode 132 = f



!map OK side-button to "Rotate clockwise"

keycode 131 = bracketleft

Just put this file into /etc/X11/kb/

In order to start gqview with this keymapping each time, one would have to change the line
   Exec=gqview
to
   Exec=launch gqview
in the file
/usr/share/applications/gqview.desktop

You can adjust other applications links accordingly.

You\'ll need to restart either matchbox or the whole X11. Simplest way is pressing CTRL-ALT-Backspace and just restarting the X11 Server via startx.

Please note, that this keymapping is still global for the whole X11 server, so every other application will also have the same key maps. But I think, it\'s still a decent way.

I hope this is usefull to somebody.
Regards,
evilJazz

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Additional packages for X11 ROM

« on: December 13, 2003, 12:50:34 pm »

Hi everybody,

I\'ve just uploaded some additional packages to my webserver, ie. lftp, pureftpd, screen, openssh, less, smbmount, rsync, joe

You can grab them here:
http://www.katastrophos.net/zaurus/packages/

Have fun,
eviLjazz

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Accessories / SD Card recommendations?

« on: December 11, 2003, 07:34:23 pm »

Hi,

I\'m planning on buying a new 512 MB SD Card, because my 256 MB SanDisk is soo damn slow when creating or deleting new files, it\'s unusable for small files.
SanDisk SD Cards seem to be crap in general so I\'m definitely not buying another SanDisk product.
Do you have any recommendation on other SD Cards? Lexar Cards seem to be quite good, but they are also quite expensive. I would like to go for Kingston as the 512 MB card is relatively inexpensive here in Germany, but I don\'t know how speedy they are...

Any recommendations greatly appreciated. TIA!

Regards,
eviLjazz