NickelMenu: An integrated launcher for Kobo eReaders

[DNSB]

Here's my NickelMenu config for Dark Mode and Invert Screen. The invert screen needs to reboot your Kobo before it will apply.

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menu_item : main    : Dark Mode          : nickel_setting : toggle : dark_mode
menu_item : main    : Invert & Reboot    : nickel_setting :toggle: invert
    chain_success   : power              : reboot

To have the items show in multiple spots, copy paste the lines and change the main to library, reading, etc.

[JSWolf]

I find the USB connect to be an excellent feature. It means no needing to unplug the USB cable to update the metadata after sending eBooks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Here's my NickelMenu config for Dark Mode and Invert Screen. The invert screen needs to reboot your Kobo before it will apply.

#
menu_item : main    : Dark Mode          : nickel_setting : toggle : dark_mode
menu_item : main    : Invert & Reboot    : nickel_setting :toggle: invert
    chain_success   : power              : reboot

To have the items show in multiple spots, copy paste the lines and change the main to library, reading, etc.

What is the different between invert and dark mode other the the need to reboot? Does one handle images better then the other or are the the same?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What is the different between invert and dark mode other the the need to reboot? Does one handle images better then the other or are they the same?

Invert inverts everything, text, images and UI. Dark Mode inverts text while reading a book.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Invert inverts everything, text, images and UI. Dark Mode inverts text while reading a book.

Thanks for the explanation. Shows how much I use any sort of dark mode.

[-stepan-]

Hi! Is it possible to add to Nickelmenu the ability to turn the frontlight on and off, while remembering the brightness percentage set by the user?

On Pocketbook you don’t need to manually set a comfortable brightness level every time; on other books, probably, too. And in Kobo Nia, I manually set 18% twice daily, at which I feel comfortable reading at night and early in the morning, until dawn. Or is this question more related to the firmware?

[Aleron Ives]

You can see the available options here:

https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMen...master/res/doc

There are no options for manipulating the frontlight level, but I'd also probably use it if there were.

[NiLuJe]

Not happening: https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu/issues/3

We've discussed how to manually control it in the past in this very thread (either via sysfs knobs or ioctl), though, but that will always be behind the UI's back (i.e., the frontlight widget won't track those changes).

[Aleron Ives]

For those of us who want to control the frontlight via NIckelMenu, that would be just fine. I just want to toggle it between off and on at my preferred setting depending on whether I'm reading during the day or at night, so I'd be perfectly happy to not mess with or even look at the UI sliders anymore.

[ownedbycats]

How would I use menu to reboot the device? The docs are a bit hard to read at the moment.

EDIT:

menu_item : main : Reboot Device : power : reboot

this worked, I think

[DNSB]

Here's the reboot and shutdown items from the doc file:

#                   power              - one of:
#                                          shutdown (4.13.12638+)
#                                          reboot   (4.13.12638+)
#                                          sleep    (4.13.12638+)

Using the lines below, replace <location> with the location where you want to see the item (main, reader, browser, library, selection).

menu_item : <location>    : Reboot             : power          : reboot
menu_item : <location>    : Shutdown           : power          : shutdown

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Here's the reboot and shutdown items from the doc file:

#                   power              - one of:
#                                          shutdown (4.13.12638+)
#                                          reboot   (4.13.12638+)
#                                          sleep    (4.13.12638+)

Using the lines below, replace <location> with the location where you want to see the item (main, reader, browser, library, selection).

menu_item : <location>    : Reboot             : power          : reboot
menu_item : <location>    : Shutdown           : power          : shutdown

yup, that did it - the indenting of the documentation threw me off but then I opened my config and figured it out

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

For those of us who want to control the frontlight via NIckelMenu, that would be just fine. I just want to toggle it between off and on at my preferred setting depending on whether I'm reading during the day or at night, so I'd be perfectly happy to not mess with or even look at the UI sliders anymore.

If this can be done, can someone please post the NM config code to do it? Thanks.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If this can be done, can someone please post the NM config code to do it? Thanks.

Jon, did you read message #1089 and the information in the link in that message? The message immediately before the one you quoted.

To save you the trouble of scanning back a few messages:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Not happening: https://github.com/pgaskin/NickelMenu/issues/3

We've discussed how to manually control it in the past in this very thread (either via sysfs knobs or ioctl), though, but that will always be behind the UI's back (i.e., the frontlight widget won't track those changes).

[ccadi]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

For those of us who want to control the frontlight via NIckelMenu, that would be just fine. I just want to toggle it between off and on at my preferred setting depending on whether I'm reading during the day or at night, so I'd be perfectly happy to not mess with or even look at the UI sliders anymore.

I use gestures to do this