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Old 03-09-2012, 12:00 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by ixtab View Post
I may be wrong, but I think that this functionality has been entirely removed with 5.0.3.
That would explain why yifanlu's launcher menu stopped being useful for me after upgrading from 5.0.0 to 5.0.4.

Bummer! Now we need a new way to toggle USBnet from the framework...

Oh... wait... I know how to execute arbitrary programs or scripts by typing something "special" in the search bar. Perhaps that can be leveraged into a launcher menu. But they only run as user "framework". Perhaps they can tell a root daemon process to do something useful though...

In other words, we have root! We CAN replace the missing functions that amazon removed in the update. We can simply revert to the older files from a previous firmware version, or we can "roll our own" alternate solution that looks for sentinel (trigger) files to decide what root action to do for us.

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