Trial N900 Coming From WOMworld!

[Micky]

Remember not to try and compare Maemo so Symbian OS Paul, many new N900 owners fall in this category, but with plenty of help available on the Maemo specific forums, all becomes clear in time.

[buxz777]

hi g taken from
Download Beautiful Dark Theme for Nokia N900 Maemo

How to Install this theme on Nokia N900 Maemo:

To install the themes, till they are not available in deb files, follow these three simple steps:

* Extract the theme files on your pc,
* Connect your N900 with your PC
* And transfer the extracted folder to :/user/share/themes on your maemo device.

must admit i havent messed with themes iam uisng the black and blue theme default but have changed my wallpapers , it looks really nice like this to me

i think its because the themses havent been packaged properley in say a .deb file as there is only a limited theme maker for maemo at the minute

:-)

[Mr G]

Originally Posted by Micky

Remember not to try and compare Maemo so Symbian OS Paul, many new N900 owners fall in this category, but with plenty of help available on the Maemo specific forums, all becomes clear in time.

I've not got much of that though, two weeks is all i got.

Originally Posted by buxz777

hi g taken from
Download Beautiful Dark Theme for Nokia N900 Maemo

How to Install this theme on Nokia N900 Maemo:

To install the themes, till they are not available in deb files, follow these three simple steps:

* Extract the theme files on your pc,
* Connect your N900 with your PC
* And transfer the extracted folder to :/user/share/themes on your maemo device.

must admit i havent messed with themes iam uisng the black and blue theme default but have changed my wallpapers , it looks really nice like this to me

i think its because the themses havent been packaged properley in say a .deb file as there is only a limited theme maker for maemo at the minute

:-)

Thanks mate, i'll try that.

[Mr G]

Originally Posted by buxz777

:/user/share/themes on your maemo device.



:-)

Do i make the above myself?

[MohammadAG]

Originally Posted by buxz777

* And transfer the extracted folder to :/user/share/themes on your maemo device.

/ is on a 256MB NAND, putting many themes there will cause problems later on (as root fills up)
The themes directory can be optified by typing these, as root, in terminal:

cp -r /usr/share/themes/* /home/opt/usr/share/themes
rm -r /usr/share/themes
ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes

@Mr G. Hope you have a great experience with the N900 mate, even if it's just two weeks :)
I'll be putting up a tutorial later on today on how to optify some of the built in apps, already added them to the wiki on maemo.org but I'll make it a step by step tutorial here.
Once you've optified those apps I can say you don't have to worry about running out of root space, if you enable extras-devel (new apps or newer versions of existing apps show here, somewhat like beta apps, but never had any problems here and it's been enabled since day one here).
One more thing, here's a warning about enabling extras-devel:

The software hosted in extras-devel is NOT ready for normal users!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't play with it unless you really know what you are doing. Be ready to file proper bug reports instead of posting complaints. Expected problems: crashes, battery drain, poor system performance, full disk space & more - SERIOUSLY!

Don't play with Extras-devel if you haven't backed up your data or are prepared to re-flash your device.

[buxz777]

cp -r /usr/share/themes/* /home/opt/usr/share/themes
rm -r /usr/share/themes
ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes

can you explain what this code does before i go and type it in please mate

appreciated

by the looks of the code iam guessing your telling the n900 to look ina different place for themes and switching the theme storage from the rootfs to the mass memory :-)

is that right mate :-)

if that is right where will mr g and me put the themes afterwards

mr g--- no mate you dont make that yourself its on apart of the memory we cant see via file manager , youd have to use linux code in the xterminal to move a file there , this is why iam awaiting a file manager that can see all areas of the handset , apparently there is one is testing so when that makes it to extras then it will be easier to move files about where you want

[MohammadAG]

# Copy all folders and files in /usr/share/themes to /home/opt/usr/share/themes
cp -r /usr/share/themes/* /home/opt/usr/share/themes
# Remove the old themes directory
rm -r /usr/share/themes
# Symlink (Symbolic link) the directory back into /usr/share/themes so that the OS thinks the folder is still there, the link redirects to /home/opt/usr/share/themes, somewhat similar to shortcuts in windows.
ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes

If you fear you might do something wrong during the process backup your original directory by typing
cp -r /usr/share/themes /home/user/MyDocs

One more thing, the Mass Memory, which is ~27GBs is mounted on MyDocs, it's a VFAT (FAT32) partition that's formatted in FAT32 for compatibility with windows and other devices (e.g PS3), FAT32 is not the best filesystem type as it gets corrupt easily if it's disconnected while in use (pulling out the battery or the USB cable while copying files), so it wouldn't be suitable for apps or configs, that's why /home is used, it's a mount point for the 2GB partition (/opt is symlinked into /home/opt so that the system thinks it's using /opt but it's using /home/opt)

[euanandrews]

Originally Posted by buxz777

...file manager that can see all areas of the handset , apparently there is one is testing so when that makes it to extras then it will be easier to move files about where you want

Midnight Commander

[MohammadAG]

Originally Posted by euanandrews

Midnight Commander

That takes up 5MBs of root space, GPE filemanager's better imo

[Mr G]

All that to install a theme........think i'll swerve it then.