Taken from the replies to a similar post of mine (I think!) some time back. Replace the exec call in the desktop file (/usr/share/applications/tangogps) to this script.
The exports work around where tango cant seem to find its home config This is my "car" script - sets up the FR so I can place it in a recess of the dash in landscape mode. For walking i dont rotate the screen, and allow suspend (just comment out the relevant lines). One day I'll get around to replacing it with a c program using library calls which will hopefully speed it up - I am using this script to customise tango, mofi, FBreader etc. Using shr-testing up to date a few days ago (as I am having problems building my repo at the moment :) BillK r...@om-gta02:~# cat mefiles/tgps #!/bin/sh export USER='root' export HOME='/home/root' export PWD='/home/root' cd /home/root /usr/bin/xrandr -o 1 mdbus -s org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage.RequestResource 'CPU' mdbus -s org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage.RequestResource 'Display' /usr/bin/tangogps mdbus -s org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage.ReleaseResource 'CPU' mdbus -s org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage /org/shr/ophonekitd/Usage org.shr.ophonekitd.Usage.ReleaseResource 'Display' /usr/bin/xrandr -o 0 r...@om-gta02:~# On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 20:58 +0100, Fernando Martins wrote: > Ah! I forgot to tell: I'm using shr unstable from January and the > settings UI doesn't work, , so I was looking for a command line > instruction to suspend on/off. > > Unfortunately, suspend off is not sufficient since the battey gets > drained too fast, in a couple hours while using GPS. I don't know how > much power the GPS and CPU is being used, but I'm sure switching off the > screen would help. > > Fernando > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
