z2buntu designed for U-Boot

Submitted by mozzwald on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 19:17

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Now that U-Boot and the 2.6.35 kernel are out for the Zipit, a newer rootfs is in order. I've tweaked z2buntu and got X running with lxlauncher.
lxlauncher
Get the image here. md5 d87598a784e516d276a1c3bc9807d6ca
Get the tarball here. md5 d8722b55602fafb9ac1224220df2be2e

I like lxlauncher because mouse is not required to navigate through the menu. After you have programs running, you can return to the main menu by pressing CTRL-D and cycle thru all open windows with CTRL-N. Mouse does work and can be enabled by pressing the Options key. It seems that you have to cycle pressing Options about 5 times before the mouse starts to work correctly. My gui-based wifi configurator isn't quite ready, but you can play with it. Pressing the power button in X gets you a shutdown menu, while pressing it from the console puts the Zipit into suspend mode.
Dillo
The Dillo browser is installed, but there's some bugs with it as well. It seems the keymap doesn't work quite right with it. Most of the numbers don't seem to work in Dillo and the Alt key actually works as Alt, and not in the normal Zipit way. Other than that, Dillo's browsing experience is excellent.
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Hello again! I wanted to

Submitted by Frankie (not verified) on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 22:36.

Hello again!

I wanted to thank you for the source of your modifications to lxlauncher.
I haven't gone through them yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing how you did that.
I also wanted to humbly suggest you checkout the GPE Palmtop Environment applications in the repo.
There's a really handy, and very lightweight file manager I've been using on z2buntu that works like a dream, in addition to several user-space utilities and administration applications and games that run perfectly and fit the screen well. There's a to-do list, and a contact manager, and a calendar, and et cetera and they're all really quite exciting. I did a happy dance.

The only caveats I've noticed is that, Ubuntu has that slightly-problematic way of giving you stuff you didn't ask for when you apt-get,
and it ended up giving me a handful of applications that are less useful,
such as screen settings that don't really change the brightness,
and we have scripts for that already, as well as a "Keys and buttons settings" that can't interact with the zippies, and a "Control Panel" that's easy to get stuck in on account of there's no buttons to exit, but I think that's because matchbox is invoked without window borders..I dunno, but, the device info application has an apm battery monitor that WORKS! Graphically!
It detected I was on AC, and reported a more-or-less correct battery percentage.

There's a rundown of the gpe-related stuff here:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=stable&section=all&arch=any&sear...

The gpe-question package seems particularly intriguing to my eyes, but as of yet I've not been able to find any documentation about how you would actually call it from a script, unless it just takes regular old args.

PS: I built a binary of abc2ps (unmaintained - Took forever to find a link to the source that was still live.) for the zipit, I dunno how many musicians who use abc notation also use the reflashed zipit, but if you or somebody else wants it I can post it up somewhere.

Anyway, I'll quit talking your eyes out now.

You have a good one!

lxlauncher

Submitted by zdanee (not verified) on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:29.

ON my userland (sidetrack plus hungarian localisation) lxlauncher can only use mouse input, no keys are recognised. Did you modify the lxlauncher source to be able to use the cursor keys?

lxlauncher w/ Keyboard

Submitted by mozzwald on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 08:39.

I did have to modify the source code to enable keyboard support. I don't have my modified source posted anywhere yet. You should be able to install my deb packages on sidetrack (although it has not been tested). See my comment here.

connect to wlan

Submitted by gimmebottles (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:26.

hi,

i flashed the new image and tried to connect to a network.
when i start the wifi manager in lxlauncher and select connect, the window disappears.
is there also a way to connect to a WPA-secured network using the terminal?

gimmebottles

Wifi setup

Submitted by mozzwald on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 12:27.

The gui based Wifi configurator isn't really working properly at the moment. I wouldn't use it. :) There is a command line wifi configurator but you'll have to slightly modify it to work as I forgot to before releasing the latest z2buntu.

sudo nano /usr/local/sbin/setup-wifi
On line 11 change wifidevice=eth0 to wifidevice=wlan0, then hit CTRL-X, then Y to save. Now if you run sudo setup-wifi it should work. After your network settings are saved to your wpa_supplicant.conf file, you can just type connect from the command line to run my auto-connect script

works!

Submitted by gimmebottles (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 13:53.

thanks, works great.

i'am very new to this, but with your great help i'm really far now.

thanks for that great project and your support.

gimmebottles

I downloaded the older

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 12:05.

I downloaded the older wificonfigurator script from one of the old posts and run that from the terminal

Hotkeys

Submitted by Sir Naitsirhc (not verified) on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 18:24.

Hey mozzwald,

what are the hotkeys for this version, very nice job by the way, I am running it now

Sir Naitsirhc

CTRL-D (Menu) and CTRL-N

Submitted by mozzwald on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 06:53.

CTRL-D (Menu) and CTRL-N (Next Window) are about the only "hotkeys" I have setup for lxlauncher/matchbox. You can add more hotkeys in ~/.matchbox/kbdconfig. Each program though has it's own set of key combos, like Xhippo for instance.