One-Click Install Packages for KOReader & Plato

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I'm kind of sad about it, but I will get over it... I only notice it when they are observed together side by side... Hers really is strikingly white... the closest to a white sheet of paper I have seen on any device...

David, another question... after I had Koreader working, I wanted to go back to stock to look at my pocket articles — and I clicked Exit... when I did that, it rebooted, and loaded stock with no way back into Koreader and my My Books was filled with hundreds of little images for navigation elements...

Could this be because I didn't put the Kobo eReader.conf file in the right place?? If you remember, I put it in the root, not inside the .kobo subdirectory...

I ended up formatting to factory specs...

I'm a little torn.. I loved the landscape mode, but the little details like changing brightness by sliding up and down on the left edge of screen is far smoother on stock than on koreader... I don't mind the dense interface, but koreader does seem to be less elegant in responsing to touch...

Is this common? Is there a way to improve this? Is kobopatch on top of stock? Would using this preserve the "elegance" of the stock interface? Do you know if I can set orientation using kobopatch?

I haven't read up on this, so perhaps I should before asking the question — but I was here, so... ;-)

[DNSB]

That is where you needed the exclusion in the Kobo eReader.conf file in the .kobo/Kobo directory. In the root it does nothing since the software does not look for the file there. If you had added the exclusion later, it would have removed all the extraneous images from your Kobo and you would need to re-add the files.

This is where the script file comes in handy since it does the work for you.

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I will have access to a mac and a pc in a couple of weeks as I am currently on vacation... I will try again then using a script...

I read that you can get landscape mode using only Nickel and it persists through FW updates... if this is the case, it might be good enough for me... though I would like to able to trigger orientation toggling and inverted by gesture... but that isn't a hill I need to die on... and I'm pretty happy with the stock Volkorn font extra heavy... it suits my eyes well... I don't know that I need the other more advanced features... I added books converted to kepub through send.djazz.se and it worked fine...

I think landscape mode is the big one for me, and I just want the most elegant way of, preferably, being able to toggle between portrait and landscape with one gesture, and inverting whichever one is currently set with another, or, as good enough, being able to rotate through 0°, 90°, 180° and 270° in series.

This worked perfectly in koreader, but I am still looking for other ways to achieve this with little effort... Getting a script to work from Chrome's Linux sandbox would be great, but I remain quite unclear on how to do it.

Perhaps one of you guys could come up with an article laying this out in step by step fashion?? ��

[DNSB]

In the Kobo eReader.conf file, under the [Device Settings] header, you could add 'ForceAllowLandscape=true' and see if it works. The other option is do search for devmodeon(*). This will add another setting under More => Device Information labelled as Developer options. On my Clara HD, the 3rd page has an Orientation option which allows selecting Portrait, Inverted Portrait, Landscape & Inverted Landscape. Either of these work on my Clara HD but I don't have a Clara BW to test this on.

* Literally, bring up the search by tapping the magnifying glass icon and type devmodeon and then search. To disable Developer mode, search for devmodeoff.

[rendababy]

https://github.com/baskerville/plato...ses/tag/0.9.44
I'm not sure how to overwrite the older version which doesn't work on my libra color. Thanks!

[DNSB]

Basically, connect your KLC to your computer, delete the contents of the /.adds/plato directory (since it didn't work, just easier to wipe the entire install) and then copy the contents of the .zip file to the /.adds/plato directory. At least that's what I tried on my KLC and Plato does work now.

[shnyaps]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Basically, connect your KLC to your computer, delete the contents of the /.adds/plato directory (since it didn't work, just easier to wipe the entire install) and then copy the contents of the .zip file to the /.adds/plato directory. At least that's what I tried on my KLC and Plato does work now.

it is enough to remove line "color = ..." from Plato's Settings.toml.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Basically, connect your KLC to your computer, delete the contents of the /.adds/plato directory (since it didn't work, just easier to wipe the entire install) and then copy the contents of the .zip file to the /.adds/plato directory. At least that's what I tried on my KLC and Plato does work now.

Originally Posted by shnyaps

it is enough to remove line "color = ..." from Plato's Settings.toml.

For myself, I copied the plato and plato.sh files from the first test package and remove the color= line from settings.toml. Which worked but the colour was rather strange. I then copied the plato file from the second test package and looked half decent.

OTOH, since Plato did not work on my KLC, if I had to install 9.44, I would have gone with the delete the old files and copy the new files since it was just simpler.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by rendababy

https://github.com/baskerville/plato...ses/tag/0.9.44
I'm not sure how to overwrite the older version which doesn't work on my libra color. Thanks!

Originally Posted by DNSB

For myself, I copied the plato and plato.sh files from the first test package and remove the color= line from settings.toml. Which worked but the colour was rather strange. I then copied the plato file from the second test package and looked half decent.

OTOH, since Plato did not work on my KLC, if I had to install 9.44, I would have gone with the delete the old files and copy the new files since it was just simpler.

I'd greatly appreciate if someone with a color Kobo would try my latest build of Plato

https://github.com/thataboy/plato/releases

and tell me how cover view looks

Thanks

Edit: to install, unzip the entire content of the zip file into .adds/plato and overwrite everything. (The package contains some files not included in original plato.) Your Settings.toml will be untouched.

[Goldeneyes78]

Please help, I'm trying to install KoReader on my new elipsa, version one, and when I tried to Run the instal.ps1 file with power shell, just start the power shell and close directly. Nothing happen else. My Kobo connected and everything fine except the install file doesn't want to start so I can choose to install koreader.
My windows is 11. Any idea why is that?

https://ibb.co/B254gBf

[DNSB]

As per item #3 in the Windows install script section, did you unblock the PS1 file? See the attached image. Otherwise, I would suggest opening a Powershell session, CDing to the directory where the script and the .zip file are and then typing .\install.ps1 (Powershell does not look in the current directory by default) which should at least let you see any error messages that might be generated.

[Goldeneyes78]

Originally Posted by DNSB

As per item #3 in the Windows install script section, did you unblock the PS1 file? See the attached image. Otherwise, I would suggest opening a Powershell session, CDing to the directory where the script and the .zip file are and then typing .\install.ps1 (Powershell does not look in the current directory by default) which should at least let you see any error messages that might be generated.

Thank you for your advice, but unfortunately doesn't work with me with many different type of orders and I did check the box for unblock, but I found the solution to order Powershell to bypass the security and install, and WELLA everything working fine and installed smoothly
As you said, after opening Powershell and go to the same files directery, I give this order
powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File .\install.ps1
and after the order as you know asking me for what I want to install and that's it.
Please help others for this order as maybe the Windows 11 making more hidden security for Powershell.
Thank you anyway and hope everybody get the benefit.
By the way do you know if there is any chance to embedded the stylus working in koreader in future? I want to use the the stulus pen with my Elipsa.

[Goldeneyes78]

I don't know why the pictures doesn't appear up!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Goldeneyes78

By the way do you know if there is any chance to embedded the stylus working in koreader in future? I want to use the the stulus pen with my Elipsa.

That's a question for the KOReader forum.