01-15-2016, 12:50 PM | #511 |
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Hi guys, long time no see!
The other day I got bored and decided I'd love to use my kindle as a little tablet again, but I didn't feel like editing the launcher again to hardcode a different host and password... So instead I built a frontend that prompts you! [Images violate Posting Guidelines for size - MODERATOR] I couldn't figure out a way to call any sort of native dialog boxes, and it doesn't look like KUAL provides that functionality, so my solution was kind kludgey and convoluted. I have a script calling kterminal to launch another script that uses zsh's built-in ncurses functionality to draw dialog boxes asking for your hostname and password. Features I've implemented include full mouse/touchscreen support, functional backspace, enter, and esc keys, working ok and cancel buttons. This works great on my paperwhite. I assume it won't work properly on other devices, but I have no way to test. Anyway, I've included everything in the form of a KUAL extension. Just drop the kindlevncviewer folder into your extensions directory and you should be good to go. Requires kterminal to be installed, also requires zsh to be installed to /usr/bin. On my system it was already there. Might have been included in the jailbreak. It's also included in usbnetworking. Try it out and let me know if you run into any issues! Last edited by Dr. Drib; 02-04-2016 at 03:11 PM. |
01-15-2016, 01:09 PM | #512 |
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Yup, zsh is shipped w/ USBNet . Because zsh rules. .
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01-15-2016, 01:49 PM | #513 |
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Yup, sure beats the hell out of busybox anyway.
So anyway, as hackish as this all is, the gethostname.sh script could be useful to others who want a simple dialog box to grab data from the user, but can't figure out how to set up a toolchain to code a native GTK or whatever app. It's pretty primitive though, requires kterminal and zsh, writes its data to a temp file which is inelegant, and also doesn't handle the user pressing arrow keys, home, end, etc well. So, if anyone wants to improve on this, feel free to use it in whatever. |
01-30-2016, 04:08 PM | #514 | |
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02-04-2016, 02:46 PM | #515 |
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lipc-set-prop: not found *What's this command?
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I've been following this tutorial: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...p?f=41&t=62139 I got to the point of working with this library, tried running this script: /mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh 192.168.15.2:0 & Got this error: [root@[192_168_15_244] root]# /mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh: line 6: lipc-set-prop: not found 25/09/2015 03:56:06 ConnectToTcpAddr: connect 25/09/2015 03:56:06 Unable to connect to VNC server /mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh: line 8: lipc-set-prop: not found What is 'lipc-set-prop'? Anyone know what's going on? |
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04-24-2016, 07:20 AM | #518 | |
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Help really needed
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I am using Mac with the latest o.s and Vine vnc software. My kpw3 is jail broken running kual and usbnetwork and vncviewer installed. However when I attempt to connect to vine vnc through my kindles vncviewer software, it asks me for a hostort and password. I use 192.168.1.2 and have tried numerous passwords but i still cannot get the kindle to display the macs information. All help will be greatly appreciated as I desperately want and need to use this function. |
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09-02-2016, 02:42 PM | #519 | |
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12-12-2016, 07:20 PM | #520 |
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Great work, I've tried this on my PW3 and it works, apart from the size of the viewer.
Does anyone know how to alter the dimensions of the VNC viewer? It only uses half of my Kindle screen. THanks! |
08-12-2018, 07:54 PM | #521 |
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Has anyone found a way to get this to work with Mac OSX High Sierra 10.13.1? I can't use Vine Server since there's not a compatible version, and I can't figure out how to get newer VNC programs to work with my Kindle DX.
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09-25-2018, 04:11 PM | #522 |
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Kindle 4 vnc see more than 800x600
Hi folks, does anybody knows is it possible to make Kindle 4 VNC viewer to see the whole screen of server's resolution, for instance, 1024x768 with its native K4 800x600, I mean something like cover mode so it could be possible to see the entire server's screen if it can thx!!
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10-06-2019, 04:52 PM | #524 |
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Home screen doesn't go away
When I run the VNC Viewer on my KP3, it connects and shows logs, but the home screen doesn't go away and the VNC screen doesn't show. I have experience in programming and linux and etc., but I'm just a bit lost when working with this.
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10-14-2019, 10:53 AM | #525 | |
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Hello!
I am following Raspbery tutorial too: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...ic.php?t=62139 I have problem with vncviewer, I have described it in detail in the gist: https://gist.github.com/MurKit/8083f...900dd1663edc38 The error itself looks like this (yes my kindle lives in 2011 ) Quote:
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