by Rafael Ignacio Zurita
Jlime Winter is a "proof of concept" of a new GUI for JLime Vargtass userland (680/690/620lx/660lx machines).
It replaces the current Jlime WMs (icewm and dwm) to try to reach specific features.
Screenshot (Fig. 1.)
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This new "proof of concept" GUI for Hp Palmtop/Jornada can help to show us
how well different GUI ideas work.
The main goals (and current ones) are:
- full screen for all applications (no borders, no window decorations: our screens are small for those)
- shortcuts for all actions
- faster
- lighter
- sound on touchscreen
- written using C language
- multi protocol chat using bitlbee+xchat (The new chat environment is the easiest way to chat on your prefered chat network : msn, gtalk, jabber, icq, aol, irc.)
Download
for HP Jornada 680 / 680e / 690 machines :
Vargtass Userland + New GUI for 680, 680e and 690 variants - vargtass-image-5.0-pre2-NEWGUI6.tar.bz2
You can use this 2.6.25 zImage kernel and this shlo.txt file.
Information on how to install Jlime can be found in our official Manual Installation Guide (Partioned Method)
for HP Palmtop 620lx / 660lx machines :
You need to use this 2.6.24 zImage kernel , this shlo.txt , and this shloCE200.exe bootloader .
If you don't know how to install JLime on your HP Palmtop 620lx / 660lx you would like to read this "Howto Install" (for 620lx/660lx users)
How to use
You can use the main menu (Fig. 1.) to run applications using the touchscreen or keyboard shortcuts:
| Keyboard shortcut | Description |
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| ATL+d | switch to the Desktop (and main menu) |
| ALT+TAB | go to next window |
| CTRL+e | run tErminal (rxvt) |
| CTRL+t | run Text editor (gtkedit) |
| CTRL+m | run Mailer (sylpheed) |
| CTRL+w | run Web browser (dillo) |
| ATL+c | run Chat client (bitlbee+xchat+scripts for different protocols : msn, gtalk, jabber, etc). |
| CTRL+f | run File manager (xfe) |
| CTRL+a | run cAlendar (calcurse) |
| CTRL+o | run Other apps menu | CTRL+p | run media Player (specific for Jlime) |
| CTRL+k | close/delete the current window |
| CTRL+ALT+k | run window killer menu |
| CTRL+i | run wIndow chooser menu |
Keep this keyboard shortcuts list on hand :).
Maybe the most useful keyboard shorcuts are ALT+TAB, CTRL+o (fast apps menu), CTRL+k (close current window), ALT+d (go to main menu / show system information: date, power and networking status).
Extra users' themes
Below there are themes contributed by users. So if you want to change the default theme download the one you like and replace the /opt/jlime/winter3.png file.
Sera88's themes (click to enlarge/download) :
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Sera88's - sixpack75's theme (click to enlarge/download) :
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Framework
The core of this new GUI for Jornadas is jlime-winter.c. It is an X11 based main menu with sound on touchscreen which uses ratpoison and ratmenu on Xfbdev as WM and application launcher. The userland has custom applications fullscreen configured, and a new chat and simple player environment.
It works on Blizzard's userland vargtass 5.0 so if you need help about a specific application you can run the "web browser" and read the nice documentation from the home page.
Note for developers : all the new stuff is under /opt/jlime/ so if you are curious or you want to help to improve the work done, please go there to start.
Known bugs
I have not had time the last days to continue improving jlime-winter so below are the known bugs:
- The new chat environment shows the yahoo IM protocol to use, but biltlbee currently can't use it because yahoo changed its API a few months ago.
TODO
We need to add/develop a jlime configuration tool to set different configuration options :
- date and time
- touchscreen calibration
- brightness
- networking
- packages installation
- keyboard layout/language selection
- sylpheed configuration (we need to ask users which are their pop/smtp servers and for usernames/passwords)
About this page
This page is maintained by Rafael Ignacio Zurita
If you find a bug in this new GUI, please feel free to write me to report on it. By the way, we (Jlime team) always need new developers too, so if you need futher information you can go Jlime about web page