Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Anthony Winter
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/6/3 Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org: OK, good start. But - assuming that it does run from a command line (and I still haven't found a terminal yet, but there must be one somewhere), what are the steps in getting it run by 'clicking' on an icon,

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Ovidiu Gavril
: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. I'm kind of stuck in these problems. Thank you in advance. Best regards,   Ovidiu --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org wrote: From: Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org Subject: Re: help for newbie, and some python To: Support

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Ovidiu Gavril ovidiu_gav...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm using om2008.12 release. I have the impression that most active development recently has gone into the om2009 release: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing I think the om2008.12

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
I have the impression that most active development recently has gone into the om2009 release: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing I think the om2008.12 release is a bit of a dead end. yes, OM009 is a good direction to go to and the link above (also check the Paroli wiki page)

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Anthony Winter wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/6/3 Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org: OK, good start. But - assuming that it does run from a command line (and I still haven't found a terminal yet, but there must be one somewhere), what are

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Ovidiu Gavril
Ok, but if I install OM2009, is it a sure way to solve my problems? I'm more interested in Dbus problem than the opkg update problem. Thanks,   Ovidiu --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: From: Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi Subject: Re: help

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Ovidiu Gavril wrote: Ok, but if I install OM2009, is it a sure way to solve my problems? I'm more interested in Dbus problem than the opkg update problem. Om2009 is using paroli and frameworkd, both of which are written in python, and communicate using dbus, so

Re: help for newbie

2009-06-02 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
And if you need to know how to launch the apps, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli#FAQ: How do I get to settings? Go to the home-screen (the one with the big clock) and hold the AUX-button pressed for 2 seconds. How do I get Illume? Open settings, click on display and then hit profile

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-02 Thread Anthony Winter
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote: Where are the apps for this distribution? there are very few apps installed by default on om2009. you will need to use opkg to install more, and keep everything up to date. best to do this over ssh, form your desktop/laptop bear in mind, that

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/3 Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org: Is there any obvious way of telling what will and what won't run on om2009? try installing it from the opkg.org repos. if it's been packaged correctly, and has it's dependencies listed, it will refuse to install and thrown up errors. in that case, you can

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-02 Thread Anthony Winter
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Robin Paulson wrote: python is installed by default on om2009, so run it exactly as you would a python programme on your desktop - there really are no important difference between that and your neo. so, copy it to somewhere on the neo (/usr/bin might be good) and then

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/3 Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org: OK, good start. But - assuming that it does run from a command line (and I still haven't found a terminal yet, but there must be one somewhere), what are the steps in getting it run by 'clicking' on an icon, in paroli/illume? That's the missing bit...

help for newbie

2009-06-01 Thread Anthony Winter
Ok, I have installed /uImage-2.6.28-stable+gitr0+f19f259d... and fso-paroli-image-om-gta02.jffs2 Now I need some pointers: Where are the apps for this distribution? How do I get a 'hello world' in Python to run? By which I mean (presumably) bringing up a window with a close button on it. --

Re: help for newbie

2009-06-01 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/2 Anthony Winter aw...@sayne.org: Ok, I have installed /uImage-2.6.28-stable+gitr0+f19f259d...  and fso-paroli-image-om-gta02.jffs2 Now I need some pointers: Where are the apps for this distribution? there are very few apps installed by default on om2009. you will need to use opkg to