Kobo Start Menu 08

[tigran]

Does anyone know whether KSM works on Kobo Aura One (7.8"), so that we can install Koreader and CoolReader? And, most importantly, where exactly I am supposed to drill the back cover to gain access to the built-in flash (I hope it is a micro sd, just like on all other Kobo models) to replace it with a 256GB one (obviously the built-in 8GB is of no use, as it can't hold even 10% of my e-library).

[Ken Maltby]

I don't think the KA1 has a replaceable flash memory, internal or external.

[Gerleu]

Hello everyone,

After installation of the last available KSM and KORreader (thank you for these great softwares) and the patch for my totally new Aura One to increase the font size of the menu, I have two small remaining problems:

1) Despite the implemented change in the General configuration to start by default KSM with the front light on at the maximum level, the front light seems inoperative, including if I tap Front light on.

2) When I start using the second reboot, the six icons included in the kbmenupngs folders are displayed in my library and under "Unknown Writer", but I don't see them anywere in a menu to be able to use them as shortcuts for accessing the different functions.

Please could you help me on those two issues above ?

Thanks in advance for your appreciated time and greetings,
Gerleu

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Gerleu

Hello everyone,

After installation of the last available KSM and KORreader (thank you for these great softwares) and the patch for my totally new Aura One to increase the font size of the menu, I have two small remaining problems:

1) Despite the implemented change in the General configuration to start by default KSM with the front light on at the maximum level, the front light seems inoperative, including if I tap Front light on.

2) When I start using the second reboot, the six icons included in the kbmenupngs folders are displayed in my library and under "Unknown Writer", but I don't see them anywere in a menu to be able to use them as shortcuts for accessing the different functions.

Please could you help me on those two issues above ?

Thanks in advance for your appreciated time and greetings,
Gerleu

To point 2): The icons do only work when nickel is started via the KSM menu. "exit to Koreader" (or similar) works only when you started nickel via "nickel koreader loop/switch" or "Koreader nickel loop/switch"

[Gerleu]

Thank you tshering for your explanation !
Actually the "kbmenupngs" folder is in the root directory and now I've set KSM to start always. Then if I tap on "start nikel" in KSM and then I tap on "switchtokoreader", I simply return in KSM instead of displaying the file browser with all files readable by the KOReader...

About the point 1 (frontlight) the value was unsufficient to notice the subtle difference between on and off: increasing it to the max value of 39 was fixing my problem.

Please what is the easiest way to return in the file browser while I'm reading a book ?

Last but not least, I don't understand which files or directories should be put in the ".adds" directory instead of the root one !

[sneakyfox]

Has anyone tried if Start Menu works on version 4.5.9587?

I am running it on an Aura H20.

Thanks.

[Gerleu]

Originally Posted by sneakyfox

Has anyone tried if Start Menu works on version 4.5.9587?

I am running it on an Aura H20.

Thanks.

KSM works perfectly on my Aura One with the 4.5.9587 version !

[sneakyfox]

Thank you, that is good to know!

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Gerleu

Actually the "kbmenupngs" folder is in the root directory and now I've set KSM to start always.

This is fine.

Originally Posted by Gerleu

Then if I tap on "start nikel" in KSM and then I tap on "switchtokoreader", I simply return in KSM instead of displaying the file browser with all files readable by the KOReader...

This is the expected behaviour, when you start nickel by selecting "start nickel."

Try the following:

• select "koreader additions" > "start nickel koreader switch"
• if you now open "switchtokoreader," nickel will be closed and koreader will be started. When you exit koreader, nickel will be started again and so forth.

Originally Posted by Gerleu

About the point 1 (frontlight) the value was unsufficient to notice the subtle difference between on and off: increasing it to the max value of 39 was fixing my problem.

When I set the value to 4, I can use my Glo as a torch and walk through my house in the dark of the night. So there seem to be rather big differences between the devices.

Originally Posted by Gerleu

Please what is the easiest way to return in the file browser while I'm reading a book ?

Do you mean, that you want to read a book in nickel and then go directly to koreader? If this is what you mean, try "koreader additions" > "start nickel koreader switch", as I said above.

Originally Posted by Gerleu

Last but not least, I don't understand which files or directories should be put in the ".adds" directory instead of the root one !

It is the folder "koreader" and the folder "vlasovsoft."

[Gerleu]

Thank you again tshering, all things are clearer now !

[tigran]

In the past I always edited usersettings.txt file to set ksmAutoselectafter=-1 to disable the "auto boot into nickel if nothing happened in 20 seconds" feature. Now I see this option is mentioned in the file confoptions/ksm_ini_options.txt but this file is probably just a help text, because it contains lines like

useMultiplefonts=true
useMultiplefonts=false

which obviously makes no sense whatsoever (why set a variable to "true" and then immediately set it to "false").

So, I assumed that I need to set it in the file runsettings.txt but this does not work either.

Therefore, please tell me how to disable this annoying feature. I have 7-8 devices and sometimes I boot them all into KSM simultaneously and I don't want to have to touch every single device to prevent this auto-boot into nickel.

[Frenzie]

which obviously makes no sense whatsoever (why set a variable to "true" and then immediately set it to "false").

I'm not sure if that's necessarily true. It's the same as something like this after all.

useMultiplefonts=false
#useMultiplefronts=true

[tigran]

Well, no programmer would ever write code "x=5; x=6;" that was my point.

Btw, it occurred to me that maybe I should just put the line:

ksmAutoselectafter=-1

in the same file as before, i.e. in usersettings.txt. However, this did not work either. It stills starts nickel after 20 seconds. So, I guess I need to grep the whole tree for ksmAutoselectafter and see where it is used and how to disable it...

UPDATE: Yes, it is in the root filesystem in the file /adds/kbmenu/ksm_ini and editing it solved the problem. But it is quite strange that this setting has been moved away from /mnt/onboard to /.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by tigran

In the past I always edited usersettings.txt file to set ksmAutoselectafter=-1 to disable the "auto boot into nickel if nothing happened in 20 seconds" feature. Now I see this option is mentioned in the file confoptions/ksm_ini_options.txt but this file is probably just a help text, because it contains lines like

useMultiplefonts=true
useMultiplefonts=false

which obviously makes no sense whatsoever (why set a variable to "true" and then immediately set it to "false").

So, I assumed that I need to set it in the file runsettings.txt but this does not work either.

Therefore, please tell me how to disable this annoying feature. I have 7-8 devices and sometimes I boot them all into KSM simultaneously and I don't want to have to touch every single device to prevent this auto-boot into nickel.

Your guess is correct. confoptions/ksm_ini_options.txt is not a configuration file. This file contains the options that the user is presented with, when he uses KSM "configure" (of the KSM main menu). For instance, for the key "useMultiplefonts" you will be offered to choose between the values "true" and "false." For the key "kobomenuFontsize" you are offered the possible values 35,45,55. If you want to have more options you can edit confoptions/ksm_ini_options.txt. For "ksmAutoselectafter", there is only one option offered, namely 20. If you want to have other values to select from edit confoptions/ksm_ini_options.txt like this:

ksmAutoselectafter=-1
ksmAutoselectafter=5
ksmAutoselectafter=10
ksmAutoselectafter=20
ksmAutoselectafter=30

The real configuration file is on the system partition. This is to allow KSM to access the configuration data also when the user partition is unmounted.

So please use the menu item "configure." If you prefer you can edit the configuration file directly. Its location is adds/kbmenu/ksm_ini. But I see no reason to do this.

See also this post, which is for KSM 7, but still gives the general idea.

[tigran]

Thank you, tshering. Everything makes perfect sense to me now.