Terminal emulator for Touch (and Paperwhite?) - Page 12

nasser · 09-13-2013, 02:57 AM

Glad to get your response, baf..

Any other improvements or changes in new package..? screen rotation..

Will give it a spin..

baf · 09-13-2013, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nasser

Glad to get your response, baf..

Any other improvements or changes in new package..? screen rotation..

No, sorry. Just got back from vacations. Have to do some working now.

And I have to jailbreak my kindle. When I connected it yesterday it upgraded to latest firmware

nasser · 09-13-2013, 05:52 AM

Tch.. tch.. didn't lock your back door..?

knc1 · 09-13-2013, 07:08 AM

Almost another vote for: "Kindle hardware + non-Amazon firmware".

baf · 09-13-2013, 04:41 PM

I uploaded new package for kterm version 0.7.
I generated new, larger images for Touch keyboard. The ones from Paperwhite layout were a bit too large and previous ones a bit too small.

nasser · 06-02-2014, 01:55 PM

Got back to kterm after a long time..
Noticed this strange behaviour: the uppercase and lowercase letters were interchanged..!
i.e: if you pressed 'a' you got 'A' and vice-versa..
Pondered over and lived wih the issue for a few weeks..
Then found the cure: a restart of the kindle(PW1 in my case..).. a 20 sec press of the power button..
Some memory corruption..? or..?

knc1 · 06-02-2014, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nasser

Got back to kterm after a long time..
Noticed this strange behaviour: the uppercase and lowercase letters were interchanged..!
i.e: if you pressed 'a' you got 'A' and vice-versa..
Pondered over and lived wih the issue for a few weeks..
Then found the cure: a restart of the kindle(PW1 in my case..).. a 20 sec press of the power button..
Some memory corruption..? or..?

Strange indeed.

The (my) mind's first reaction is "can't happen".
Unfortunately, I have been at this long enough to know that "anything can happen".

Perhaps the effect of caching something, somewhere?

Post if it happens again - it might be "real" and related somehow to your device and its set-up.

PS: Thanks.

baf · 06-02-2014, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nasser

Got back to kterm after a long time..
Noticed this strange behaviour: the uppercase and lowercase letters were interchanged..!
i.e: if you pressed 'a' you got 'A' and vice-versa..
Pondered over and lived wih the issue for a few weeks..
Then found the cure: a restart of the kindle(PW1 in my case..).. a 20 sec press of the power button..
Some memory corruption..? or..?

Really strange. I can't think of any cause.
Maybe your keyboard is dirty and caps lock got stuck

knc1 · 06-03-2014, 07:31 AM

It had to happen sometime: the virtual sticky key.
Next on our list to watch for: the virtual coffee spill.

pgfiore · 03-09-2015, 01:13 PM

I just tried ktem 0.7 onto a working pw1/kual 2.5 and it does not start at all. When I tap on kterm quickly go back home (and shows for a while bin/kterm.sh in the bottom left corner). How can I understand why? Is there a log? thank for any hint. Ciao

brianinmaine · 03-09-2015, 04:13 PM

is your kterm in the correct directory? "/mnt/us/extensions/kterm"
Also you might troubleshoot using ssh or telnet to show you the problem.

pgfiore · 03-11-2015, 10:12 AM

thank for the prompt reply, I needed a while to get my win7 to telnet it as I never tried before....

However, yep it's there with subfolder bin and layouts
I do not know how I could proceed to troubleshoot it

I give it a "blind try", firing:
[root@kindle kterm]# bin/kterm.sh
matchbox-keyboard:/mnt/us/extensions/kterm/layouts/keyboard-wide.xml:0: (null)
matchbox-keyboard: *Error* Error parsing
matchbox-keyboard failed to return valid window ID
: No such file or directory
killall: matchbox-keyboard: no process killed

brianinmaine · 03-11-2015, 09:29 PM

did you get it from here? http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-te.../kterm-0.7.zip
also, did you unzip it on the kindle or in windows - just making sure you didn't have any windows line endings in there? Not sure what else it can be? Delete and try again?

ssholloway · 08-14-2015, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

did you get it from here? http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-te.../kterm-0.7.zip

Using term-0.7 from the URL, I get the same behavior as pgfiore on a PW2 running fw 5.6.5 when launching from the latest snapshot of KUAL. Everything is in the extensions directory and I used the same code on fw 5.4.2 without problems. I did reinstall kterm-0.7 after the first time I had the problem but that didn't make any difference.

This is not the only extension that 5.6.5 seems to have broken. I have a similar issue with batterlevel as reported in its thread. Any ideas would be appreciated.

eschwartz · 08-14-2015, 03:09 PM

I think someone somewhere suggested that the new firmware updated from libpng12 -> libpng16.

kterm links to libpng12. You'll have to create a compatibility symlink, in /usr/lib or somewhere added to $LD_LILBRARY_PATH in kterm.sh (maybe you only want kterm to look for libpng12).

09-13-2013, 04:41 PM	#170
baf Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 2330752 Join Date: May 2012 Device: kt	kterm 0.7 again I uploaded new package for kterm version 0.7. I generated new, larger images for Touch keyboard. The ones from Paperwhite layout were a bit too large and previous ones a bit too small. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by baf; 09-13-2013 at 05:24 PM. Reason: screenshot

03-11-2015, 10:12 AM	#177
pgfiore Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	thank for the prompt reply, I needed a while to get my win7 to telnet it as I never tried before.... However, yep it's there with subfolder bin and layouts I do not know how I could proceed to troubleshoot it I give it a "blind try", firing: [root@kindle kterm]# bin/kterm.sh matchbox-keyboard:/mnt/us/extensions/kterm/layouts/keyboard-wide.xml:0: (null) matchbox-keyboard: Error Error parsing matchbox-keyboard failed to return valid window ID : No such file or directory killall: matchbox-keyboard: no process killed Last edited by pgfiore; 03-11-2015 at 12:30 PM.

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09-13-2013, 02:57 AM	#166
nasser Evangelist Posts: 475 Karma: 445678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Too many..	Glad to get your response, baf.. Any other improvements or changes in new package..? screen rotation.. Will give it a spin..

09-13-2013, 05:52 AM	#168
nasser Evangelist Posts: 475 Karma: 445678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Too many..	Tch.. tch.. didn't lock your back door..?

09-13-2013, 07:08 AM	#169
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	Almost another vote for: "Kindle hardware + non-Amazon firmware".

06-02-2014, 01:55 PM	#171
nasser Evangelist Posts: 475 Karma: 445678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Too many..	Got back to kterm after a long time.. Noticed this strange behaviour: the uppercase and lowercase letters were interchanged..! i.e: if you pressed 'a' you got 'A' and vice-versa.. Pondered over and lived wih the issue for a few weeks.. Then found the cure: a restart of the kindle(PW1 in my case..).. a 20 sec press of the power button.. Some memory corruption..? or..?

06-03-2014, 07:31 AM	#174
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	It had to happen sometime: the virtual sticky key. Next on our list to watch for: the virtual coffee spill.

03-09-2015, 01:13 PM	#175
pgfiore Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	I just tried ktem 0.7 onto a working pw1/kual 2.5 and it does not start at all. When I tap on kterm quickly go back home (and shows for a while bin/kterm.sh in the bottom left corner). How can I understand why? Is there a log? thank for any hint. Ciao

03-09-2015, 04:13 PM	#176
brianinmaine Evangelist Posts: 457 Karma: 1287375 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: West Gardiner, Maine Device: Touch (5.3.7)	is your kterm in the correct directory? "/mnt/us/extensions/kterm" Also you might troubleshoot using ssh or telnet to show you the problem.

03-11-2015, 09:29 PM	#178
brianinmaine Evangelist Posts: 457 Karma: 1287375 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: West Gardiner, Maine Device: Touch (5.3.7)	did you get it from here? http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-te.../kterm-0.7.zip also, did you unzip it on the kindle or in windows - just making sure you didn't have any windows line endings in there? Not sure what else it can be? Delete and try again?

08-14-2015, 03:09 PM	#180
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	I think someone somewhere suggested that the new firmware updated from libpng12 -> libpng16. kterm links to libpng12. You'll have to create a compatibility symlink, in /usr/lib or somewhere added to $LD_LILBRARY_PATH in kterm.sh (maybe you only want kterm to look for libpng12).

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