Kobo Start Menu 07 - Page 12

tshering · 04-12-2015, 05:13 PM

The purpose for introducing this function with update 2 was that I wanted to test myself on various things (vocabulary, declinations, ...).

How it works:

create html files containing the text (and/or links to images) that you want to test yourself about
create a folder in .adds\mynotes, e.g. test01 (do not use spaces in file and folder names)
select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tools" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "test01"
select "open random html"
open the bottom menu by tapping in the middle of the screen, then select "close"
select "open random html"
...

Only a limited subset of html tags and css properties is supported, cf. http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ric...ml-subset.html

If you want to try this feature instantly without creating your own files,

select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tools" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "pofftest"
select "open random html"

tshering · 04-12-2015, 05:29 PM

The content of the power-off screen is defined by a html file. The default power-off screen html is .adds\kbmenu\txt\poweroff_info.html (note: since KSM 08 the location is .adds\kbmenu_user\txt\poweroff_info.html). You can modify this file in accordance with your needs. Only a limited subset of html tags and css properties is supported, cf. http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ric...ml-subset.html

Random Power-off Screen

In order to show randomly html files at power off, you can use the "display random html file" function. You can find an example at .adds\kbmenu\mynotes\pofftest (since KSM 08 the location is .adds\kbmenu_user\mynotes\pofftest).

To activate it

select (KSM home) "configure"
select "[general]"
select "PoweroffRandomdir=$ksmroot/mynotes/pofftest (you will possibly not see the whole line, but there is only one value that starts with $ksmroot) //note: since KSM 08, the directory is $ksmuser/mynotes/pofftest
select "return"
select "save and exit"

If you want to play around without powering off the reader each time, you can

select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tests" > "poweroff test.sh"

This will display the power-off screen without powering off. Close the screen by tapping in the middle of the screen, then select "close".

Make the KSM power off screen display also if the device is being powered off directly from within nickel

select (KSM home) "tools" > "activate" > "x install poweroff.sh"

The KSM power-off screen will be displayed also if you power off from nickel (vlasovsoft launcher's power-off screen however is not affected by this). This activation will last until the next firmware update. Be aware that KSM does not yet provide an option to deactivate this feature.

tshering · 04-13-2015, 04:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan_S

In my experience, it's maybe best to start slowly. You made many useful posts here explaining many features. Write feature by feature in one place ...

I thought this is basically what I am doing (have a look at the first post, and at the first post of the old KSM thread).Maybe I started slower (and continued in the same way) than you meant by "start slowly"

libertango · 04-13-2015, 09:22 AM

Thank you very much tshering for your help, everything is much clearer now.
Now, I want an image to fill the screen, so I made the following new html page:

<html>
<head>
<title>kobo menu info</title>
<style type="text/css">
p {
margin-top: 0.5em; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src="imgs/Escher_bg.jpg">
</body>
</html>

The image is now displayed in the corner. What I miss is the code to resize the page to fill the screen of my kobo h2o.
Sorry for the very basic question, I would appreciate your help.

Ken Maltby · 04-13-2015, 09:41 AM

I just size the image in Gimp2 then use the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>kobo menu info</title>
<style type="image/png">
p {
margin-top: 0.5em; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<img src="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png">
</body>
</html>

The full screen image dimensions for the AuraHD are 1040x 1387. The use of html makes it so you can display variables and generated text easily as well. For most of us, since it will be a static image on the screen anyway, creating the image in an image editing program makes more sense.

Luck;
Ken

Just adding width="1040", as below:
<img src="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png" width="1040">
should resize the image.

tshering · 04-13-2015, 10:26 AM

Libertango,

I am glad it starts working for you. For full screen images I do

Code:

<html>
<body>
<p align="center"><img src="imgs/sleeping_noborder.png" height="800"></p>
</body>
</html>

height="800", because I did in on a Touch. The dimensions of the image are not so important in that case, but the ratio should be close to that of the screen.
Ken's method does of course work too.

You might have noted by yourself already. I mention it nonetheless. If you go "scipts" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "pofftest" (or whatever), and select any html.file, it gets displayed.

Alan_S · 04-13-2015, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tshering

I thought this is basically what I am doing (have a look at the first post, and at the first post of the old KSM thread).Maybe I started slower (and continued in the same way) than you meant by "start slowly"

I noticed content of first post with links to useful posts. Maybe it would be better to have special thread with such information? Thread wouldn't be for discussion, just for instructions.

I myself prefer to organize such info in wiki, or special thread closed for discussion. In that way all information is in one place.

I notice that mobileread forum doesn't have wiki mod, so wiki here is out of the question. And I don't know if they have mod that would enable you (or any user they want to have such options enabled) to moderate certain threads, but that mod exists. It gives moderator abilities to certain users.

Anyway, for now we have what we have.

And when I told about being slow, I just meant that thinking you need to do a lot of work in short time, it can be too daunting. But, when you do small chunks of work, it gets manageable.

I examine first post of your threads regularly, whenever I need to do something new.

Xen · 04-16-2015, 12:45 PM

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tshering · 04-16-2015, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

OK so I followed the instructions on the first post. When I checked the library contents (after copying the folder in the first part of the instructions) I found:

No tile for either switchtokoreader or exit_nickel on the home page; there is a tile that says "5 books added to library"

I thought if you open the two files from the library and return to the home, they would appear as tiles. If this is not the case, do not worry. If anything happens later, we can fix it.

Quote:

In the library list I find 2 files named switchtokoreader and 2 files that are named exit_nickel. I assume these files have different extensions but the default software doesn't show extensions.

Usually the file type is displayed in the library. Depending on the firmware version (and perhaps on the model) there are small differences. Look at the right columne of the entry, or maybe below the author.
Is it possible that you copied the kbmenupngs folder twice, to different locations? This would explain why the two image files are listed twice. If this is the case please delete the doublets.

Quote:

There is a 5th file named 684429_88_resizeto_450x1000

This is not related to KSM.

Quote:

Is it safe to proceed with part 2 of the instructions?

If not - how can I fix this?

I would proceed. The worst thing that can happen is that nickel (the original GUI) does not start. If this happens we can fix it.

Xen · 04-16-2015, 06:35 PM

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Xen · 04-16-2015, 08:46 PM

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Ken Maltby · 04-16-2015, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

OK - so there is something in KSM that causes it to startup the Kobo default reader after 20 seconds. How can I totally disable this feature?

It used to be in usersettings.txt, but with the new configuration features added in update 2, I am not sure. (I will have to get around to adding the update2.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Having replaced the whole Kobo default software snarl, I find I no longer have access to things that were actually useful - such as being able to change the default sleep and power off states. Are there settings somewhere in Kobo Start Menu to control this?

It is most handy to be able to "sleep" the device from the reading program, and both Koreader and Coolreader have sleep functions. KSM has a neat Poweroff, with the ability to have your own html page displayed while the device is shut down.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Not Kobo Start Menu related - but is there a thread somewhere with KoReader information? I've found the Wiki generally not very helpful. I can't seem to get it to show recently read items, or connect to Calibre wireless. I've got issues with KoReader at the moment ...

Giorgio's original post
still is in use. But the Project is at GitHub. The "Pulse" page, is what I use to keep up to date.

You can start a thread here in the Kobo forum or in its "Developer's Corner" subforum. And/or you can raise the issues at the project in GitHub.

Luck;
Ken

Xen · 04-17-2015, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

It used to be in usersettings.txt, but with the new configuration features added in update 2, I am not sure. (I will have to get around to adding the update2.)

I know where it is - Under home for KSM, choose Configure, then [general]

The settings are in there:
frontlightOnLevel=4
KsmAutoselectafter=20
ksmAutoselectoption=start_nickel
preventfreeze=true
additem
return

I'm a bit concerned as I had specifically set preventfreeze=false via KSM and it has reset itself to true for no reason I can fathom.

At any rate, I don't know what values might be used to totally disable this check for Autoselect. I assume it is using power and resources for the timer at the very least, and I don't want it starting up nickel on its own, EVER.

I have reset preventfreeze to false, checked and it is still there right now. If it toggles itself again I'll report back on that.

There is also under the Configure options an entry for KoReader - but it is empty. What is that for?

Quote:

It is most handy to be able to "sleep" the device from the reading program, and both Koreader and Coolreader have sleep functions. KSM has a neat Poweroff, with the ability to have your own html page displayed while the device is shut down.

Curently KoReader is not sleeping EVER. It has been on all night at this point. I left it in the reader to see what it might do because I noticed it wasn't sleeping.

Under the factory software settings, I had it set to sleep after 5 minutes and power off after 15. I can't seem to figure out how to do that now. I thought perhaps KSM would take precedence but clearly when KoReader is running, KSM has no power over poweroff, LOL!

As far as KSM's sleep feature - I don't want it to display ANYTHING. I want it to go into the least power-using state possible. I don't know if that is the dark screen or the light screen, but that is all that needs to be displayed. With perhaps text that says "sleeping", but no need to have any text at all when it is powered down. It should just be powered down in whichever state- dark or light screen - uses the least, preferably no, power.

How do I change the sleep screen display? And can KSM autopoweroff after a set time and display nothing at all, dark or light screen, whichever used less power?

I'll look at the 2 URLs you have posted. I did post a query on another thread that looked likely for KoReader, I'll check back over there. I hadn't asked about sleeping as I hadn't realized yet that KoReader was never ever sleeping yet.

Thanks for the help.

Ken Maltby · 04-17-2015, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

I know where it is - Under home for KSM, choose Configure, then [general]

The settings are in there:
frontlightOnLevel=4
KsmAutoselectafter=20
ksmAutoselectoption=start_nickel
preventfreeze=true
additem
return

I'm a bit concerned as I had specifically set preventfreeze=false via KSM and it has reset itself to true for no reason I can fathom.

At any rate, I don't know what values might be used to totally disable this check for Autoselect. I assume it is using power and resources for the timer at the very least, and I don't want it starting up nickel on its own, EVER.

I have reset preventfreeze to false, checked and it is still there right now. If it toggles itself again I'll report back on that.

There is also under the Configure options an entry for KoReader - but it is empty. What is that for?

I still haven't added the update #2. Preventfreeze = false was the default for my AuraHD, but it could be otherwise for the H2O.

I have mine set like this:
KsmAutoselectafter=10
ksmAutoselectoption=start_koreader

But if you didn't want to "Autoselect" at all you could change it to this:

#KsmAutoselectafter=20
#ksmAutoselectoption=start_nickel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Curently KoReader is not sleeping EVER. It has been on all night at this point. I left it in the reader to see what it might do because I noticed it wasn't sleeping.

Hmm... I think you may not understand how this works. First with an e-Ink display, no power is used (by the display) while an unchanging image is displayed. So, having any image up makes no difference, a solid black or white image or an intricate grayscale masterpiece - no power is used to maintain the image. No CPU cycles, either.

With most "sleep"/standby functions, the CPU is put into a very low power mode that is just waiting to be called back to work. For some devices, other similar steps are taken to safely suspend critical background processes. For Koreader the WiFi transceiver turned off, as well. Most of the suspend function is a very low level hardware function supplied by the chip manufacturer, the low level routines to activate the function are included in Kobo's firmware. Both Koreader and Nickel have routines that prepare the device before they call the hardware function.

Powering off is intended to be just that, there is a Poweroff menu option provided by KSM and also in Sergey's launcher, otherwise it is achieved by holding the "Power Switch" for 20sec or so. A quick flick of the power switch should be the hardware way to call the suspend function. (And how you return from it.) For your one non-sliding button H2O, it might be a quick press of the button, to suspend and hold down for 20sec. to poweroff.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Under the factory software settings, I had it set to sleep after 5 minutes and power off after 15. I can't seem to figure out how to do that now. I thought perhaps KSM would take precedence but clearly when KoReader is running, KSM has no power over poweroff, LOL!

As far as KSM's sleep feature - I don't want it to display ANYTHING. I want it to go into the least power-using state possible. I don't know if that is the dark screen or the light screen, but that is all that needs to be displayed. With perhaps text that says "sleeping", but no need to have any text at all when it is powered down. It should just be powered down in whichever state- dark or light screen - uses the least, preferably no, power.

How do I change the sleep screen display? And can KSM autopoweroff after a set time and display nothing at all, dark or light screen, whichever used less power?

I'll look at the 2 URLs you have posted. I did post a query on another thread that looked likely for KoReader, I'll check back over there. I hadn't asked about sleeping as I hadn't realized yet that KoReader was never ever sleeping yet.

Thanks for the help.

The "sleep" function was removed from KSM several versions ago. KSM's PowerOff function is still there and there are a number of posts in this thread that discuss how to make the html page it displays.

Koreader has a sleep/suspend function and you can have it display your own image of choice (current discussion is working on how to have it provide a randomly selected image from a number in a folder, a different one each time the sleep function is activated, by a power switch flick). Most of us probably just have it set to use the current book's cover image. There is a way to set the image to be used when there is no cover or when koreader doesn't find one or when you don't want the cover used.

Luck;
Ken

tshering · 04-17-2015, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

I'm a bit concerned as I had specifically set preventfreeze=false via KSM and it has reset itself to true for no reason I can fathom.

Are you sure you selected "save and exit" rather than "cancel and exit"?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

At any rate, I don't know what values might be used to totally disable this check for Autoselect. I assume it is using power and resources for the timer at the very least, and I don't want it starting up nickel on its own, EVER.

I guess the power consumption of the timer is negligible (especially since it runs for 20 secs), and there is no shortage of resources at that point. The purpose that nickel is automatically started is that it already happened that after a new firmware release, KSM became unresponsive to any touch and needed a new touch driver, so that it was impossible to do any selections. In such a case it comes handy if nickel starts automatically so that you can connect to the pc and uninstall KSM or fix it. I would rather increase the value for KsmAutoselectafter. If you really want to disable it, remove ksmAutoselectoption via "configure". But be aware of the dangere!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

There is also under the Configure options an entry for KoReader - but it is empty. What is that for?

Try to select "add item".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Curently KoReader is not sleeping EVER. It has been on all night at this point. I left it in the reader to see what it might do because I noticed it wasn't sleeping.

I never tried to set the sleep-after time myself (and I do not have my reader at hand), but Koreader has a huge configuration menu. Did you try it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

Under the factory software settings, I had it set to sleep after 5 minutes and power off after 15. I can't seem to figure out how to do that now. I thought perhaps KSM would take precedence but clearly when KoReader is running, KSM has no power over poweroff, LOL!

Right, as soon as you launch Koreader, nickel, vlasovsoft laucher, ... no KSM application is running (except some shell scripts, for instance the preventfeeze script, if this option is enabled).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

As far as KSM's sleep feature - I don't want it to display ANYTHING. I want it to go into the least power-using state possible. I don't know if that is the dark screen or the light screen, but that is all that needs to be displayed. With perhaps text that says "sleeping", but no need to have any text at all when it is powered down. It should just be powered down in whichever state- dark or light screen - uses the least, preferably no, power.

KSM 07 does not have a sleep feature. As for drawing the power-off screen of course that needs power. No power is needed however to maintain the screen after it has been drawn. If you want no drawing at all before powering off (the KSM menu will remain on the screen), you can edit the file .adds\kbmenu\onstart\poweroff.sh. You can, for instance, delete the whole code apart from

Code:

/bin/busybox poweroff

(Use a unix style editor, when modifying script files!)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xen

How do I change the sleep screen display? And can KSM autopoweroff after a set time and display nothing at all, dark or light screen, whichever used less power?

Do you mean the sleep screen display of KSM? There is none. KSM has no autopoweroff function.

After using the Kobo reader for some time, you might find that you power concerns might be uncalled-for, but your needs might of course be different from mine.

04-12-2015, 05:13 PM	#166
tshering Wizard Posts: 3,489 Karma: 2914715 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: kobo touch	Display random html file The purpose for introducing this function with update 2 was that I wanted to test myself on various things (vocabulary, declinations, ...). How it works: create html files containing the text (and/or links to images) that you want to test yourself about create a folder in .adds\mynotes, e.g. test01 (do not use spaces in file and folder names) select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tools" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "test01" select "open random html" open the bottom menu by tapping in the middle of the screen, then select "close" select "open random html" ... Only a limited subset of html tags and css properties is supported, cf. http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ric...ml-subset.html If you want to try this feature instantly without creating your own files, select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tools" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "pofftest" select "open random html"

04-12-2015, 05:29 PM	#167
tshering Wizard Posts: 3,489 Karma: 2914715 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: kobo touch	Power-off screen The content of the power-off screen is defined by a html file. The default power-off screen html is .adds\kbmenu\txt\poweroff_info.html (note: since KSM 08 the location is .adds\kbmenu_user\txt\poweroff_info.html). You can modify this file in accordance with your needs. Only a limited subset of html tags and css properties is supported, cf. http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ric...ml-subset.html Random Power-off Screen In order to show randomly html files at power off, you can use the "display random html file" function. You can find an example at .adds\kbmenu\mynotes\pofftest (since KSM 08 the location is .adds\kbmenu_user\mynotes\pofftest). To activate it select (KSM home) "configure" select "[general]" select "PoweroffRandomdir=$ksmroot/mynotes/pofftest (you will possibly not see the whole line, but there is only one value that starts with $ksmroot) //note: since KSM 08, the directory is $ksmuser/mynotes/pofftest select "return" select "save and exit" If you want to play around without powering off the reader each time, you can select (KSM home) "scripts" > "tests" > "poweroff test.sh" This will display the power-off screen without powering off. Close the screen by tapping in the middle of the screen, then select "close". Make the KSM power off screen display also if the device is being powered off directly from within nickel select (KSM home) "tools" > "activate" > "x install poweroff.sh" The KSM power-off screen will be displayed also if you power off from nickel (vlasovsoft launcher's power-off screen however is not affected by this). This activation will last until the next firmware update. Be aware that KSM does not yet provide an option to deactivate this feature. Last edited by tshering; 07-02-2017 at 12:35 PM.

04-13-2015, 09:41 AM	#170
Ken Maltby Wizard Posts: 4,466 Karma: 6900052 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Heart of Texas Device: Boox Note2, AuraHD, PDA,	I just size the image in Gimp2 then use the following: <html> <head> <title>kobo menu info</title> <style type="image/png"> p { margin-top: 0.5em; } </style> </head> <body> <img src="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png"> </body> </html> The full screen image dimensions for the AuraHD are 1040x 1387. The use of html makes it so you can display variables and generated text easily as well. For most of us, since it will be a static image on the screen anyway, creating the image in an image editing program makes more sense. Luck; Ken Just adding width="1040", as below: <img src="/mnt/onboard/.kobo/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png" width="1040"> should resize the image. Last edited by Ken Maltby; 04-13-2015 at 10:15 AM.

04-13-2015, 10:26 AM	#171
tshering Wizard Posts: 3,489 Karma: 2914715 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: kobo touch	Libertango, I am glad it starts working for you. For full screen images I do Code: <html> <body> <p align="center"><img src="imgs/sleeping_noborder.png" height="800"></p> </body> </html> height="800", because I did in on a Touch. The dimensions of the image are not so important in that case, but the ratio should be close to that of the screen. Ken's method does of course work too. You might have noted by yourself already. I mention it nonetheless. If you go "scipts" > "browse" > "browse mynotes.msh" > "pofftest" (or whatever), and select any html.file, it gets displayed. Last edited by tshering; 04-13-2015 at 10:38 AM.

04-16-2015, 12:45 PM	#173
Xen Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 180000 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle	12345 Last edited by Xen; 08-24-2018 at 10:18 PM.

04-13-2015, 09:22 AM	#169
libertango Connoisseur Posts: 74 Karma: 11628 Join Date: Nov 2013 Device: kobo clara hd, kobo glo hd, kobo aura h2o, kobo touch, kindle dx	Thank you very much tshering for your help, everything is much clearer now. Now, I want an image to fill the screen, so I made the following new html page: <html> <head> <title>kobo menu info</title> <style type="text/css"> p { margin-top: 0.5em; } </style> </head> <body> <img src="imgs/Escher_bg.jpg"> </body> </html> The image is now displayed in the corner. What I miss is the code to resize the page to fill the screen of my kobo h2o. Sorry for the very basic question, I would appreciate your help.

04-16-2015, 06:35 PM	#175
Xen Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 180000 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle	12345 Last edited by Xen; 08-25-2018 at 03:10 AM.

04-16-2015, 08:46 PM	#176
Xen Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 180000 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle	12345 Last edited by Xen; 08-25-2018 at 03:10 AM.

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