Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[Ebri]

Regardless whether the cover visible sometimes I see 0-2% consumption during sleep, sometimes 20-30% in half day. After a reboot usually the 0-2%, but after some time it jumps up to 20-30%. Probably I will also check the other suspend.sh-s.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Ebri

Probably I will also check the other suspend.sh-s.

No need to check the one of KSM. Since it did not work reliably, I removed "sleep" of the main menu of KSM 7.

[Ken Maltby]

Here is one KOreader feature I would like to see added:

A "Go-To" for the File Manager, one that would not only do page numbers but that could go to the File Manager page that has entries that start with a letter entered. It would be even cooler if it functioned like a search and as you typed letters it would go to the pages with the matching letters. There is no Goto in File Manager, just in the reader.

Luck;
Ken

An example; my File Manager Fantasy folder is 49 pages @ 14 entries per page. If I want to goto the page with the start of the M listings it takes 18 pokes of the right arrow at the bottom of the File Manager page. If the File Manager had a "Goto" like is in the reader, I could enter 18 and save some tapping. If the File Manager had a search like function for its "Goto" , I might be able to enter "M" and have it jump to page 18, then if I added a "c", it would jump to page 20 with the start of the Mccaffery, Anne listings.

There is now a "filemanagerfilessearcher.lua" in koreader\frontend\apps\filemanager\ but I don't see how it is implemented. Edit: I did find the "Find a file" menu item and it works fine, as long as I can remember the spelling.

[pickyaxe]

(Cross-posted from koreader issue tracker)

Feature request: "Open previous file" button in Reader View for basic multitasking (AltTab-like behavior)

This would make my life so much easier when doing my homework with Koreader, because I constantly have to switch between two files while studying.

Koreader already allowed me to stop printing everything and stop reading from a backlit screen. An AltTab-like feature in the Reader View would make my workflow SIGNIFICANTLY faster.

thank you for this great software, by the way.

EDIT chrox has informed me that this feature is already implemented! Pokeball Menu -> History. Thanks again everyone working on koreader!

[jberd]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

You can replace the "$args" with the address of the directory you want File Manager to open at koreader start. For mine it is:
./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Koreader/Books 2> crash.log

Huh. Is that it?
I changed the line in koreader.sh to
./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Books 2> crash.log
but koreader still opens at /mnt/onboard
Is there anything else that needs to be done?

Jay

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by jberd

Huh. Is that it?
I changed the line in koreader.sh to
./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Books 2> crash.log
but koreader still opens at /mnt/onboard
Is there anything else that needs to be done?

Jay

It works if you are providing the argument to the reader.lua that starts koreader. Depending on how you are launching koreader, the "koreader.sh" that has the reader.lua you want, will be in different places.

With KSM7, it now looks to be at; /.adds/kbmenu/onstart/start_koreader.sh. There is also a start_koreader_args.sh that you can override with your own starting place argument.

( You might also want to make it ./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Books/ 2> crash.log)

Luck;
Ken

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

With KSM7, it now looks to be at; /.adds/kbmenu/onstart/start_koreader.sh.

( You might also want to make it ./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Books/ 2> crash.log)

Luck;
Ken

start_koreader.sh calls koreader.sh of the koreader directory. Therefore, the changes that jberd did, should work. And they do work. But if you have activated "open last book", the file manager will open the directory of that last book instead of the one you set as an argument.

[xor_]

I just installed nightly-20150322, build 151, and it seems the handling of the minibar has changed. Specifically, I have been using these settings, and they don't work anymore:

DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = true
DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = true

Is that deliberate? Any chance to get the old behavior back?

[embryo]

Originally Posted by xor_

Is that deliberate? Any chance to get the old behavior back?

There is a new entry in the 'Gear'? drop down menu (3rd top icon) called 'Status bar'.
You can configure things through GUI now!

[chrox]

Originally Posted by xor_

I just installed nightly-20150322, build 151, and it seems the handling of the minibar has changed. Specifically, I have been using these settings, and they don't work anymore:

DMINIBAR_ALL_AT_ONCE = true
DMINIBAR_NEXT_CHAPTER = true

Is that deliberate? Any chance to get the old behavior back?

It's now in "Status bar" options in the upper reader menu and can be configured with a more graphic way like this:

[tshering]

Could somebody please change the reference to KSM in the wiki and in README_kobo.txt so that it points to the new thread?

[xor_]

Originally Posted by chrox

It's now in "Status bar" options in the upper reader menu and can be configured with a more graphic way like this:

Ah, I hadn't seen that. Nice! Thanks.

[mobamoba]

I really like Koreader, but I think maybe I'm missing something about setting certain defaults. I already know about editing the default lua and saving it as persistent, but there are certain other things I'd like to save as default but can't figure out how. For example:

How do I tell Koreader to turn off embedded css by default? Right now I have to manually switch it off for every book.
How do I tell Koreader to use small margins, small line spacing, and darker gamma by default? Again, right now I have to go through and adjust these for every book.
How do I tell Koreader to use a particular css by default? I created my on epub.css that lays out epubs exactly the way I like (I called it "epubme.css") but I have to manually select it as the rendering engine every time I open a book - can I set it as default somehow?
Finally, how do I set a font as default? I looked around this thread and it said to edit the cr3.ini file; I did that and Koreader still defaults to its original font and I have to manually select my font for every book.

Thanks and apologies if these were answered elsewhere and I just didn't see them.

[Ken Maltby]

The new "long press" on a File Manager folder selection option to set the starting directory/folder, seems to be working. It seems to be an evolving convention, to use a long press on option settings, to obtain the option to set them as a default.

There is no long press option(s) for the "Set render style" .css options, as of now.

A long press on the checked font selection, brings up an option to set it as the default font. (I am assuming that it would be for the reader, when the book's .css doesn't specify one.)

The reader's bottom menu items seem to work that way to, a long press gives you the option to make it the default.

Luck;
Ken

[mobamoba]

Thanks - I missed the "long press" thing during my search.