Gpe Pim Apps

[karlto]

Exciting stuff!

Looks like I'm <-> that far away from having a good PDA setup under pdaXrom- I just need to get wake on alarm working under GPE-Calendar now. I've followed all the instructions in this thread (I think) but my Z doesn't wake or make any sound on alarms BUT gpe-announce runs fine and makes a lot of noise when it does. gpe-calendar seems to be running fine too.

As you can see in my sig, I'm running pdaXromb2 on a C3000. This is what I've done so far:

* Installed latest gpe-calendar, gpe-announce (both from xromers OldBetas feed) and atd

* Followed karlto's instructions on replacing /usr/bin/at and adding a atrm command (I've kept my old at just in case) as documented here

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17933&st=60

* Made a file called alarm.conf under /home/root/.gpe which says

enable 0 (0 means ON right? I tried 1 too but it made no difference)
automatic 0
level 50

Is there anything I've missed out? This process needs to documented properly and added to meanies pdaxrom guide as well as added to the gpe-calendar website and the GPE/GPE-PIM documentation. I'm willing to help with that if required.

gpe-calendar looks like what I wanted although I was waiting to get the alarm working before properly using it. Is there any risk of the calendar data file format changing soon i.e will my calendar data work in the next stable release?

If it's not possible to get gpe-calendar to wake my Z on alarms, I hope I can use gpe-announce with jpilot to do the same thing- what would the command be in that case?

Thanks!

d.

EDIT

I just got a mail of xromer and he tells me there is no need to replace /usr/bin/at on pdaXrom.
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Hi danboid

Xromer fixed the gpe stuff in later versions to work with the pdaXrom version of at - doesn't matter if you changed it though, as it won't hurt anything.

It sounds like atd is not working - after setting an alarm, check the files in '/var/spool/at' to see what gpe-calendar has created. pdaXrom at is very basic, all it does is create a script in '/var/spool/at' directory that is executable, called <unixtime>.<jobid> where <unixtime> is the time to run the script (in seconds since 1970). Then 'echo >/var/spool/at/trigger', and it will be executed at the specified time.

Also try running something else with at (anything), and check that this wakes the Zaurus. Do you have atd running?

Karl

[Xromer]

Guys new packages of GPE for Beta4 are now online, try them please.
I compiled:
gftp_2.0.18-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-announce_0.13.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-calendar_0.72.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-contacts_0.44.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-edit_0.30.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-filemanager_0.25.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-gallery_0.97.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-icons_0.25.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-mileage_0.1.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-screenshot_0.4.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-timesheet_0.30.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpe-todo_0.55.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
gpsdrive_2.10pre2-1_armv5tel.ipk
gstreamer_0.8.12-1_armv5tel.ipk
libcontactsdb_0.3.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libdisplaymigration_0.99.100606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libeventdb_0.30.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libgpepimc_0.7.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libgpevtype_0.17.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libgpewidget_0.112.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libhandoff_0.01.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libmimedir_0.4.0-1_armv5tel.ipk
libschedule_0.16.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libsoundgen_0.3.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libsoup_2.2.93-1_armv5tel.ipk
libtododb_0.10.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
libxsettings-client_0.17.060606-1_armv5tel.ipk
sqlite2_2.8.13_armv5tel.ipk

Gpe-calendar, gpe-contacts always suffer from the segfault when importing.
I tried to debug them with the GPE guys as i' m a beginner in this field and we saw that the problem is in the combo box spawn for the gtk_file_multiple_select, the function tries the get memory out of the utility range.
Now either the FC4 than Zauri ATD should work normally, i tried the FC4 and it works great, we have to try the Zauri.
GPE-filemanager  i think it' s the best filemanager for the Zauri, fast with mime support i found it better then the ROX as it was designed with PDAS in mind.
I compiled the sqlite2 DB with the 2 prefix after the name this time.
So deps could have been made better.
Gpsdrive with new glibc works better, but we need to add some configuration files to make it work as mapfile.txt etc. otherwise it will segfault logically after a while not finding them.
The other uitilities work perfectly, Timesheet and screenshot are very useful.
GPE-gallery suffers about the same segfault problem of gpe-calendar and gpe-contacts but we have gqview so it' s not very needed.
In the end the most important utilities as gpe-calendar, todo, and contacts work great!
I use them on the desktop too.
The new Calendar has the possibility to set more than one Calendar at once, nice work GPE guys!
As i' m learning very much in this period on cross-compilation and Beta Builders, i ' having a lot fun!
Now the next step it' s glade programming, it would be useful to have a better and live contact than the Forum in the Cacko chat channel to improve the development.
So i f you can, come on please!
Live discussion will surely be more useful.
BYEZ!

[ZDevil]

Just tried out the GPE pim stuff on Beta4.

GPE-todo and GPE-contacts run very well, and feel much faster than running them in Beta1.  Nice things!  

But it seems GPE-calendar is missing in the Beta4 feed, was it left out by accident or for some other reason?

GPE-filemanager can't load, in the terminal it says something like "Failed to open file /usr/share/pixmaps//blahblahblah.png : No such file or directory" Is it a mistake in the installation path? (i mean the double // )  
Also in the feed its dependency reads: libgpewidget, dbus, gtk2, glib2, gnome-vfs.
And it turned out that I had to install gconf, orbit, libbonobo to stop it crying for missing libs.

Anyway thanks for your lots of hard work, Xromer! Please keep it up. Fully functional  GPE pim stuff would be yet another reason for me (and possibly others) to stay with pdaX.  

[Xromer]

Just tried out the GPE pim stuff on Beta4.

GPE-todo and GPE-contacts run very well, and feel much faster than running them in Beta1.  Nice things!   

But it seems GPE-calendar is missing in the Beta4 feed, was it left out by accident or for some other reason?

GPE-filemanager can't load, in the terminal it says something like "Failed to open file /usr/share/pixmaps//blahblahblah.png : No such file or directory" Is it a mistake in the installation path? (i mean the double // )   
Also in the feed its dependency reads: libgpewidget, dbus, gtk2, glib2, gnome-vfs.
And it turned out that I had to install gconf, orbit, libbonobo to stop it crying for missing libs.

Anyway thanks for your lots of hard work, Xromer! Please keep it up. Fully functional  GPE pim stuff would be yet another reason for me (and possibly others) to stay with pdaX. 
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Yes, gpe-calendar is missing take it below.
Sorry guys, as i don' t have the direct access to the mail.pdaxrom.org and PdaXrom people it' s very busy now and don' t have the time to seek all the stuff correctly.
THX to Pgas fo seeking me all the time.
For the pixpmaps i forgot to add the gpe-icons package to the dependencies list.
Install it and all problems should be solved.
 

[ZDevil]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I tried to install your gpe-calendar package here but got these errors:  

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zcat: /mnt/cf/x/gpe/gpe_calendar_0.72.060606_1_armv5tel.ipk: not in gzip format
tar: ./control.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
cat: /tmp/ipkman.tmp.6798/control: No such file or directory

zcat: /mnt/cf/x/gpe/gpe_calendar_0.72.060606_1_armv5tel.ipk: not in gzip format
tar: ./control.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
mv: unable to rename `//home/tmp/ipkg/gpe/control/*': No such file or directory
Finally I got gpe-filemanager to work. It's SUPERB!!!  The best file manager ever I've used in pdaX!    
The only catch is the window is streching to wide. Maximizing it in matchbox doesn't help. Perhaps others like xfce or windowmaker can do (but do they have Beta4 packages already?)
Thanks!

EDIT:
The window size issue of gpe-filemanager happened only in the first run. I launched it again and the window size is perfect. Interesting.  
BTW it seems there is no desktop icon for it, is it?

[Xromer]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I tried to install your gpe-calendar package here but got these errors:   

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zcat: /mnt/cf/x/gpe/gpe_calendar_0.72.060606_1_armv5tel.ipk: not in gzip format
tar: ./control.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
cat: /tmp/ipkman.tmp.6798/control: No such file or directory

zcat: /mnt/cf/x/gpe/gpe_calendar_0.72.060606_1_armv5tel.ipk: not in gzip format
tar: ./control.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
mv: unable to rename `//home/tmp/ipkg/gpe/control/*': No such file or directory
Finally I got gpe-filemanager to work. It's SUPERB!!!  The best file manager ever I've used in pdaX!   
The only catch is the window is streching to wide. Maximizing it in matchbox doesn't help. Perhaps others like xfce or windowmaker can do (but do they have Beta4 packages already?)
Thanks!

EDIT:
The window size issue of gpe-filemanager happened only in the first run. I launched it again and the window size is perfect. Interesting. 
BTW it seems there is no desktop icon for it, is it?
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Yes it' s another fixed forgotten by me, sorry!
Just change the gpe-filemanager.desktop file in this lines:
Name=_File Manager to Name=File Manager
Comment=_GPE File Manager to Comment=GPE File Manager
in the /usr/share/applications dir.
No underscore should be before any of the .desktop files fileds like the other above.
This is true for all the other GPE Utilities.
This is a bug due to a problems that i had in compilation work, as to change the file from gpe-filemanager.desktop.in to gpe-filemanager.desktop the make file doesn' t generate the right utility.
Tell me all other bugs you encounter, your test it' s really appreciated and i' m glad the you like this filemanager like me, yes it' s fabolous.
BYEZ!

[Drake01]

Looks like I'm <-> that far away from having a good PDA setup under pdaXrom- I just need to get wake on alarm working under GPE-Calendar now. I've followed all the instructions in this thread (I think) but my Z doesn't wake or make any sound on alarms BUT gpe-announce runs fine and makes a lot of noise when it does. gpe-calendar seems to be running fine too.

Interesting.  I don't seem to have any problems with my Z waking up, but I don't get any sound.  Did you have to do anything to get the sound working?  My Z will wake up and the alarm window will pop, but because it doesn't make any noise, I may not notice it for hours.  This makes the alarm far less useful to me.

If I try gpe-announce from the command line, I get the messages:

error opening /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Couldn't init soundgen

Any ideas what might be causing this?  Xmms works fine.

I'm running beta4 on a C1000 with the latest versions of Xromer's gpe stuff (with the exception of gpe-calendar, which isn't yet on the feed and which appears to be corrupt in Xromer's posting).

[karlto]

Looks like I'm <-> that far away from having a good PDA setup under pdaXrom- I just need to get wake on alarm working under GPE-Calendar now. I've followed all the instructions in this thread (I think) but my Z doesn't wake or make any sound on alarms BUT gpe-announce runs fine and makes a lot of noise when it does. gpe-calendar seems to be running fine too.

Interesting.  I don't seem to have any problems with my Z waking up, but I don't get any sound.  Did you have to do anything to get the sound working?  My Z will wake up and the alarm window will pop, but because it doesn't make any noise, I may not notice it for hours.  This makes the alarm far less useful to me.

If I try gpe-announce from the command line, I get the messages:

error opening /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Couldn't init soundgen

Any ideas what might be causing this?  Xmms works fine.

I'm running beta4 on a C1000 with the latest versions of Xromer's gpe stuff (with the exception of gpe-calendar, which isn't yet on the feed and which appears to be corrupt in Xromer's posting).
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If you look back through this topic (yeah right  ), there was a similar issue with the first version, which related to trying to use the raw sound device instead of working through the esound daemon (which had the raw device locked).

@Xromer, have you re-introduced this problem in the beta4 compilation? Maybe through using newer gpe sources?

@Drake01, if I recall Xromer fixed it pretty quickly before and he's always watching these forums, so I expect the fix won't be far away!

[Xromer]

 
THX Karlito, try them guys!
See what' s going on with announce more deep.
BYEZ!

Note: If you have problems with announce, remember to unload the volume applet from the panel.
This because it takes the /dev/dsp busy and makes it refuse any other connection.
This was last time what happened to me.

[ZDevil]

Thanks again, Xromer. Please keep up the good work.  

gpe-filemanager runs without any issue (so far). Nice work.
gpe-calendar can install, but it reports missing libhandoff.so.0. Any hint?

[Xromer]

Thanks again, Xromer. Please keep up the good work.   

gpe-filemanager runs without any issue (so far). Nice work.
gpe-calendar can install, but it reports missing libhandoff.so.0. Any hint?
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Offcourse, you have to install the libhandoff package on my feed.
:-)

[ZDevil]

Thanks again, Xromer. Please keep up the good work.   

gpe-filemanager runs without any issue (so far). Nice work.
gpe-calendar can install, but it reports missing libhandoff.so.0. Any hint?
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Offcourse, you have to install the libhandoff package on my feed.
:-)
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Okay. Now this Beta4 version of gpe-calendar actually looks for libhandoff, libsoup (both in your feed), and libgnutls (not found in the feeds)... So can't try it out yet.  

[Xromer]

Thanks again, Xromer. Please keep up the good work.   

gpe-filemanager runs without any issue (so far). Nice work.
gpe-calendar can install, but it reports missing libhandoff.so.0. Any hint?
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Offcourse, you have to install the libhandoff package on my feed.
:-)
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Okay. Now this Beta4 version of gpe-calendar actually looks for libhandoff, libsoup (both in your feed), and libgnutls (not found in the feeds)... So can't try it out yet.  
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What' s not in my feed it' s in the main of beta4, this for a disk space reason obviously and to not repeat what Sashz has just done.
Point the two feeds (main and mine) in the ipkg.conf and all should work, if not tell me because maybe i did deps errors in the packages.
BYEZ!

[ZDevil]

Well, libgnutls is not found in the Beta1 and Beta4 feeds. So...  

[Xromer]

Well, libgnutls is not found in the Beta1 and Beta4 feeds. So... 
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HIHIHIHI!!! Package name is gnutls.