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Originally Posted by nikosmonaut
I just installed Koreader on my Kobo Forma device with the one click install method and I'm pretty happy with it. But I'm trying to understand other methods to have more control over it. I don't understand how does all this work. What are the meanings of thoses terms :
- kfmon
- fmon
- ksm
- nickel ?
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kfmon is an improved version of Sergey's fmon launcher, basically it can start a specific action when you tap on a "book" which is often a .png file.
fmon has issues and basically no error checking. There is a version by baskerville which adds many of the same checks as fmon uses.
KSM (Kobo Start Menu) has the capability of more actions but for most people, launching KOReader (or Plato or other reading software) is what they are looking for.
Nickel is a Kobo supplied application. It is where much of the magic happens.
Since kfmon, fmon and KSM patch the same script file, don't try installing more than one of them at a time. The results can be "interesting".
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Originally Posted by nikosmonaut
I thought that Koreader was like a kind of custom OS to replace the kobo firmware. But instead it launched on top of it like a virtual machine. It just seems wrong.
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KOReader is an application that runs on top of the Kobo Linux OS. It replaces most of the functionality of the Kobo GUI but depends on the same hardware interface. Would you think that launching ImageMagick on a Linux box is running a VM? Or perhaps, better, launching an alternative GUI -- ghod knows, Linux has enough choice there.
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Originally Posted by nikosmonaut
Is it possible to just install Koreader on barebone kobo hardware and to not keep any software from kobo ?
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That would be a no. KOReader is not an operating system. Much like asking if you could use the LXQt Desktop on your Linux box without needing the operating system to be installed.
I suppose someone sufficiently dedicated could generate a Linux install for the Kobo hardware that would use KOReader as the default renderer. For the amount of work that would take would take, I can't really see anyone doing that. If nothing else, I personally find that the Kobo software does a better task of rendering epubs which leaves only a few PDF files as candidates for KOReader or Plato.