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Old 06-22-2015, 11:58 AM   #1
Rocketmagnet
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Kill the GUI ?

Hi,

Is it possible to kill the GUI on the K4NT? Looking at ps aux, I can't easily guess which process might be the GUI.

I've written a Weather HUD in python. A shell script puts the Kindle to sleep, and when it wakes up, the python script runs, downloading the weather info, and rendering the image to a PNG file. It then calls eips to display it.

However, when the kindle wakes from sleep, part of the GUI appears, overwriting the screen during the downloading & rendering process. I'd like to avoid this, perhaps by simply killing the GUI process.

Is this possible, and would there be any disastrous consequences if I did?

Hugo
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