The Land of OZ, Days 2 - 3

Day 2 (GPE)

Problems, con't:

• Due to suggestion in OZ wiki, set / partition to 150M; filled almost immediatly w/ files in /usr/lib (while installing gxine or something). Since busybox's find doesn't support the -maxdepth or -exec flags, got sizes of subdirs of a given folder with:

   $ alias dirsize='alias ls=ls;for f in `ls`; do du $f -sh; done'

• Gxine dies in fullscreen mode; no sound. Found a note about alsamixer, but haven't tested that out on GPE yet.

• Sylpheed doesn't start (probably due to lack of disk space, as per above)

• No backup/restore - but I should be able to run rsync

Day 2 (OPIE)

Decided to try OPIE for comparison. Wasn't any better - in fact, I found it worse.

• Gaim won't work; Gaim-Sametime won't install (missing dependency)

• XMMS - no sound / won't play; Opie Media Player - won't play MP3

• Eligo, ZSolitaire won't work

• No way to resize/rotate games when really small
• No way to change ugly default opie background
  • Update: Use Settings > Launcher > Tabs > (pick a tab) > Edit > Image > Select...
• No way to set alphanumeric PIN for password protection (numeric only)
• No card management applet in task tray
• No volume applet in task tray

• Appearance crashed

• After reboot, sound works in XMMS and OpiePlayer, but no volume control, except by running alsamixer in a terminal.

Day 3 (GPE)

Gave up on OPIE after a day; tried CackoROM (SL-C3200-Qtopia-1.23-2125070506) but it wouldn't boot; after two tries I decided to go back to GPE. Could have been a problem with SD card being ext2; could have been a problem w/ paritions on hda (ext2 vs. ext3, ext2 vs vfat). Not sure.

Installed rsync on zaurus (already on desktop); worked great - used this script (running on divbyzero.homelinux.net) to do the synching; will add to crontab later:

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/nickb/zaurus/BACKUP; 
for f in etc home usr; do 
  rsync -rv zaurus:/$f .; 
done

Solved problem reported earlier about being unable to copy & paste in terminal window: use xmonobut applet!

• tap once to activate middle button (paste)
• tap again to activate right button (select?)
• tap third to revert to left button

So to copy/paste text in terminal:

• select text to copy,
• tap xmonobut applet icon once,
• tap in terminal to paste at cursor location, then
• tap twice to reset to left button.