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Eradicatore · 04-04-2014, 11:51 PM

Hi Dos1,
I wanted to use your event handler on my paperwhite2 to run my own sort of scrolling screen savers. So I was going to put a quick wrapper script in boot to remove any .lock file. Then in the suspend folder I would put a shell script wrapper to just run my python script in the background unless it sees the .lock file (which it would then "touch" to avoid running twice).

But on my paperwhite2, your file doesn't appear to allow me to install. I've installed several things (USBNet, Linkss, Python, JB) so I know that's working. The file name I have from your zip is:

update_eventHandler_0.2_kindle5_install.bin

Any ideas? Also, do you think my idea to run a looping python script in the background will be fine? I can't see why it would do any harm, since I could always ssh in and kill it if I needed to.

04-04-2014, 11:51 PM	#33
Eradicatore i void warranties Posts: 22 Karma: 1038 Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Wisconsin Device: Kindle PW2	Hi Dos1, I wanted to use your event handler on my paperwhite2 to run my own sort of scrolling screen savers. So I was going to put a quick wrapper script in boot to remove any .lock file. Then in the suspend folder I would put a shell script wrapper to just run my python script in the background unless it sees the .lock file (which it would then "touch" to avoid running twice). But on my paperwhite2, your file doesn't appear to allow me to install. I've installed several things (USBNet, Linkss, Python, JB) so I know that's working. The file name I have from your zip is: update_eventHandler_0.2_kindle5_install.bin Any ideas? Also, do you think my idea to run a looping python script in the background will be fine? I can't see why it would do any harm, since I could always ssh in and kill it if I needed to.