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Cxx0 General discussions / new keyhelper config

« on: February 13, 2004, 08:08:25 pm »

keyhelper is awesome!  I especially love the ability to switch between running apps (it\'s been on my wish list for a long time).

The common set-up for this that is floating around the net uses Shift+Home to switch apps, Shift+Menu to switch apps using the app list, and Home+HotKey to launch apps (via keyhelper.conf).

I didn\'t like this use of the Home and Menu keys.  The problem is that keyhelper doesn\'t suppress the normal functionality of these keys when using them for task switching/launching and that made the operation a bit messy.

So I experimented with an alternate keyboard layout for these functions and came up with something I like quite a lot.

First off, this is for clamshell Z\'s only (I\'m using a C860).

As most of you know, there are two Japanese keys on the left side of the keyboard, just to the right of the FN key.  I\'ve dubbed these keys Jap#1 (leftmost) and Jap#2 (rightmost).

Most folks who are using keyhelper have probably already mapped Jap#1 as a control key.  This is also a common keyhelper config that\'s floating around.  I\'ve done this too and wouldn\'t change it (I also made it sticky--sticky Shift, Ctrl, and FN rule).

My new keyboard layout relies only on Jap#2.  The new keys are:

1) Jap#2+Ctrl = switch/cycle through apps
2) Jap#2+Shift = switch apps with menu
3) Jap#2+HotKey = launch app
(1) is pretty easy once you get the hang of it (assuming you have Jap#1 mapped as ctrl).  Using one finger, you press Jap#1 and roll your finger onto Jap#2.

Here\'s the relevant XML for these settings:

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enjoy...

~ray

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General Discussion / how to: install to sd/cf from shell (ipkg)

« on: February 08, 2004, 04:06:15 pm »

Hi,

I can\'t find this ? answered in any faq:

How do you install to sd/cf from the shell using ipkg?

I\'ve tried \"ipkg -d /mnt/cf install <ipk>\" but that doesn\'t seem to work quite right (put prog in /mnt/cf/home/QtPalmtop/bin instead of /mnt/cf/QtPalmtop/bin and created ipkg db in /mnt/cf/opt/??).

I\'m trying to set-up a shell script to install all of my apps automatically after I reflash a rom and I want some things to be installed to sd.

Thanks,

~ray

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5x00 General discussions / Opera 7.x won\'t start from Qtopia (works fine from konsole)

« on: February 08, 2004, 12:32:31 pm »

Hi,

I\'m having a great deal of difficulty getting Opera 7.3 to work correctly. Lots of folks seem to have gotten it to work so I\'m hoping someone might be able to see what I\'m doing wrong.

My environment: I\'m running tkcrom 2.5.1 on a c860. I *think* I\'m running the sash kernal.   Long story short: I d/l\'ed a file from ZUG called tkcrom_cxx0.zip which contains zImage.bin, 1074616 bytes, dated 2/8/04 11:22 am. I installed it when I flashed tkcrom 2.5.1 and everything seems fine with it. The version tab says \"compiled by sash@sash\" so, I\'m assuming that this is sash\'s kernal.

I d/l\'ed Opera 7.3 from the IBM site, extracted opera_arm.ipk and installed it. Before doing so, I uninstalled an older version and cleaned away all of the opera dirs by hand.

When I run it from Qtopia, it appears for about a second and then quits with no messages. When it appears, I can see that it is missing its toolbar icons.

If I run it from konsole, it runs fine!! (toolbar icons and all.)

I had previously installed version 6, right after flashing, but never ran it (networking not set up). When I got connected, the first thing I did was install stuff from proto\'s feed. Among them, Opera 7.11. This version would run from Qtopia but had no toolbar icons! It also ran fine from konsole. Later, I tried 7.3.

Wondering if the problem had something to do with which user it was being started as, I tried two things. I tried running it as root (had to modify the .desktop file to allow the checkbox to be visible). No dice. Next, I had noticed that there was a .opera dir in both /home/root and /home/zaurus and they were slightly different! So, I combined them both into /home/root/.opera, and replaced /home/zaurus/.opera with a symlink to the other. This made no difference at all.

Another strange thing that happened: when I first upgraded from 6 to 7.11 using proto\'s feed, it installed with a nice, new stylized Opera icon on the Network tab. Later, thinking that the upgrade from 6 was the problem, I had tried removing this version and installing fresh from the proto feed (same version, AFAIK). But this time it installed an icon (that looked more like the older version 6 icon) in the Applications tab! Did proto post a new version in between? I dunno, but strange.

Anyway, that\'s all of the details I can think of at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help,

~ray