Kobo Start Menu 08

[Frenzie]

You need to index the PNGs in Nickel without filemon active. That means you can't go into Nickel from KSM because that'll always be with the file monitor noticing Nickel's trying to index them. Hence why the instructions say to do this before you install KSM at all, but you can easily do it afterward if you set KSM to boot into KSM only half the time.

[ebrahimpak]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

You need to index the PNGs in Nickel without filemon active. That means you can't go into Nickel from KSM because that'll always be with the file monitor noticing Nickel's trying to index them. Hence why the instructions say to do this before you install KSM at all, but you can easily do it afterward if you set KSM to boot into KSM only half the time.

By "boot into KSM only half the time", do you mean every other time? If it is so, I prefer to choose exit nickel from My Books in the nickel rather than tapping its homepage icon. The main trouble was the consecutive boot-ups which I intended to get rid of at the first place.

[Frenzie]

You can put it back after Nickel has indexed the PNGs.

[ebrahimpak]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

You can put it back after Nickel has indexed the PNGs.

As long as the PNGs' thumbnails are shown in the Nickel's homepage, Nickel would not be started, unless through the "nofmn.sh". Therefore I have to keep the thumbnails away from home.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by ebrahimpak

As long as the PNGs' thumbnails are shown in the Nickel's homepage, Nickel would not be started, unless through the "nofmn.sh". Therefore I have to keep the thumbnails away from home.

Is it difficult for yoou to keep them away? Since the new home screen, the KSM pngs never appear on my home screen (my KSM pngs are marked as finished). Try to open some books in nickel in order to get them on your home screen.

Originally Posted by Frenzie

, but you can easily do it afterward if you set KSM to boot into KSM only half the time.

This is true. But you can also launch nickel by selecting "tools" > "nickel diverse.msh" > "start nickel no fmon.sh" to run nickel without fmon running.

[ebrahimpak]

Originally Posted by tshering

Is it difficult for yoou to keep them away? Since the new home screen, the KSM pngs never appear on my home screen (my KSM pngs are marked as finished). Try to open some books in nickel in order to get them on your home screen.
This is true. But you can also launch nickel by selecting "tools" > "nickel diverse.msh" > "start nickel no fmon.sh" to run nickel without fmon running.

Since I don't read anything on nickel, no it's not difficult at all. It acts as a light adjustment tool! I wouldn't expect it to provide any decent reading experience.

[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by tshering

This is true. But you can also launch nickel by selecting "tools" > "nickel diverse.msh" > "start nickel no fmon.sh" to run nickel without fmon running.

My bad. So in that case I suppose there's no way to get out of it without shutting down? (Not that it makes a difference for the scenario I described, of course!)

Sorry, tend not to use Nickel at all for very long stretches at a time so I forget about all of the available options.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by tshering

Is it difficult for yoou to keep them away? Since the new home screen, the KSM pngs never appear on my home screen (my KSM pngs are marked as finished). Try to open some books in nickel in order to get them on your home screen.

Also, if you remove a book from the new home screen, it will never come back.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Also, if you remove a book from the new home screen, it will never come back.

Thank you for pointing at this. I understood eprahimpak's message to the effect that he has to undertake a continuous effort to keep the pngs away from the home screen. Now I think that I just misunderstood what he was saying, and that he somehow managed to removed them once from the home screen, and they are now gone for good.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

So in that case I suppose there's no way to get out of it without shutting down?

Unfortunately there is currently no other way. I was thinking of overwriting one of the nickel functions that are accessible by a menu entry by an exit function in order to get rid of the fmon problem. But somehow I never started doing it. I was (and still am) even to lazy to try the kute file monitor.

[ebrahimpak]

Originally Posted by tshering

Thank you for pointing at this. I understood eprahimpak's message to the effect that he has to undertake a continuous effort to keep the pngs away from the home screen. Now I think that I just misunderstood what he was saying, and that he somehow managed to removed them once from the home screen, and they are now gone for good.

Yes, absolutely. And no need to rearrange the thumbnails.

[Zekathon]

There seems to be something wrong with the custom power off HTML file. I have tried to get the random power off screen script working and found out, that when i try to use any image, the poff test script opens it correctly, but when the device is powered off, it just shows the KSM menu like nothing happened, but shuts down. If i remove the image from the HTML code, it works correctly and the screen displays whatever text is inside the html. Or is it on purpose, that it doesn't accept images? I am not saying it might not be my error somewhere in the code, but the poff script and even my browser shows it correctly

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Zekathon

There seems to be something wrong with the custom power off HTML file. I have tried to get the random power off screen script working and found out, that when i try to use any image, the poff test script opens it correctly, but when the device is powered off, it just shows the KSM menu like nothing happened, but shuts down. If i remove the image from the HTML code, it works correctly and the screen displays whatever text is inside the html. Or is it on purpose, that it doesn't accept images? I am not saying it might not be my error somewhere in the code, but the poff script and even my browser shows it correctly

That sounds like your image files are too large, try some with a lower resolution. The higher the resolution of the image, the more time is needed to write it to the screen. Therefore it can happen that the device powers off before the image appears on the screen.

Edit: For some example power off scipts with images, which are already on your device, see this post.

[Zekathon]

Originally Posted by tshering

That sounds like your image files are too large, try some with a lower resolution. The higher the resolution of the image, the more time is needed to write it to the screen. Therefore it can happen that the device powers off before the image appears on the screen.

Edit: For some example power off scipts with images, which are already on your device, see this post.

Hi, thank you, i have read this guide before. You were right about the file size. Tried images >=24kb and none of them worked. I wanted to have a full-screen image displayed and failed to stretch a smaller res image to whole screen (i am not very familiar with HTML), so i had to use images 1872*1404px large and even with maximally compressed .jpg couldn't get lower then to 24kb.

Only those preloaded 1kb images do work. Still better then the "you can edit this text..." default power off message

So, thanks for help , will keep on testing smaller images

[Ken Maltby]

For my AuraHD I have 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/.adds/kbmenu/txt/poweroff.png">
</body>
</html>

For my "poweroff_info.html". The Poweroff.png is 1040x1387 bit depth 32, its 361KB.
Works fine.

The image was created using Gimp2 to fit the full screen.

Luck;
Ken