KUAL: Kindle Unified Application Launcher (v2.7)

[eschwartz]

Yup, the booklet version is fullscreen which means it doesn't have the menubar that the Kindlet inherited from the reader framework (which is itself a booklet, that opens books and Active Content and homescreen views and stuff).

Fullscreen means more space for KUAL buttons this is supposed to be an advantage.



So you will have to use the KUAL quit button, or the KT's physical home button if you have a KT.

[Ruskie_it]

Originally Posted by elbarto0

hi need help


i jailbreak me kindle paper white 2 then i installed the kual and kual helper
also kual-mrinstaller-1.6.N.

now i see a new book call kindle launcher if i lounch this i find a kual were i can only sort
also a helper+ button if i click on it i can click install mr package. but it give me the message no mr package found


is all installed correctly ??? so now i can put in some extensions ???

If I may add, your english is quite comprehensible, but with technicalities it might lead to misunderstanding. If it is not your mother language, maybe next time also include an original version of the message in your mother tongue, expecially if it's a widely known one (like spanish, french etc).

Knc1 has already told you it's not really clear what you did; in my opinion, what isn't really clear is what you really want to know....
If I understood correctly:

- Yes, all is installed correctly: if jailbreak or kual "installation" had been performed incorrectly you wouldn't have been able to launch Kual at all

- Yes you can put in 1. Kual Extension and 2. Kindle plugins. I cite them separately because KUAL extension are one thing (installed by simply putting the code in the "extension" directory), other plugins are another (installed using MR Package Installer)

- The fact that MR Package Installer gave you that "No packages found" message is absolutely normal. That's what it says if you haven't put a .bin package into the right directory where MRP expects them to be. If it doesn't find a package to install there, it returns that message.

[fennectech]

Do KUAL apps that run scripts run as root? im trying to use one to change the root password

[knc1]

Originally Posted by fennectech

Do KUAL apps that run scripts run as root? im trying to use one to change the root password

Yes, they do.
But if you change root's password, how do you expect it to continue working?

For what reason are you trying to change root's password?
Must likely, you really don't need to do that, not on a Kindle.

[Hanspeter]

Hi,

not sure if I'm blind, but I'm looking for a documentation for the possibilities in the menu.json. Is there anything besides reading the once the exist in the different extensions?

Searched this thread, the wiki, the forum and the contends of the Kual package without results.

HaPe

[encol]

Have you looked at this?

[Hanspeter]

Originally Posted by encol

Have you looked at this?

Thanks for the head up. I only saw the kual.cfg and missed that the rest is documented below.

HaPe

[NiLuJe]

@nasser: That's a feature (of the Booklet version), not a bug . (Speaking of the "no menubar" thing).

KUAL should be adding a "Quit" button at the bottom (or top, if you have a funky config ) of every pager, so that shouldn't be a huge issue . I personally prefer the added visual real estate .

EDIT: Oh, look at that, missed a new page yet again .

[fennectech]

Originally Posted by knc1

Yes, they do.
But if you change root's password, how do you expect it to continue working?

For what reason are you trying to change root's password?
Must likely, you really don't need to do that, not on a Kindle.

i want to be able to modify the root filesystem and access it over SSH i need to put a new /etc/password in place i LOVE to play arround with things in the firmware

[knc1]

Originally Posted by fennectech

i want to be able to modify the root filesystem and access it over SSH i need to put a new /etc/password in place

No you don't, that is handled by the USBnetworking package for you.
Try reading the directions in its archive.

[fennectech]

Originally Posted by knc1

No you don't, that is handled by the USBnetworking package for you.
Try reading the directions in its archive.

i have gotten usbnetworking working but without a way to get the password from it (the methods ive tried even jtr) i cant login to root


you fail to understand i like to get into the system and alter it myself to do my own strange and wonderful things (like running an webserver from a kindle) or putting the entire thing through tor or installing linux binaries on it

[knc1]

Originally Posted by fennectech

i have gotten usbnetworking working but without a way to get the password from it (the methods ive tried even jtr) i cant login to root
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READ THE DIRECTIONS about setting up pub-key authentication.

The USB network package ALREADY signs you in as root.

I and others here keep telling you - you do not have to make any changes to the system password file.

[fennectech]

Originally Posted by knc1

READ THE DIRECTIONS about setting up pub-key authentication.

The USB network package ALREADY signs you in as root.

I and others here keep telling you - you do not have to make any changes to the system password file.

I know i want to figure out what the usbnetwork is doing to require no password so i can make it require a password of my choosing im not a person to use keys so i perfer password ill read there to see if i can figure it out i know i can get in as root


# Use OpenSSH instead of dropbear (somewhat faster login)
# NOTE: OpenSSH *WILL* check your passwords!
# Make sure you know your root password, or auth via shared keys!
USE_OPENSSH="true "
That does the trick

[knc1]

And what makes you think that our build of openSSH uses the system image files?

Perhaps you might learn something if you first checked the grounds of your assumption that we followed 'standard practice' when we built something for a special situation.

A special situation like it not being wise to modify the system image that Amazon provides.

[fennectech]

Originally Posted by knc1

And what makes you think that our build of openSSH uses the system image files?

Perhaps you might learn something if you first checked the grounds of your assumption that we followed 'standard practice' when we built something for a special situation.

A special situation like it not being wise to modify the system image that Amazon provides.

well i tried it and it works fine issued passwd with my nerw password and now it takes that