2009 - Rafael Ignacio Zurita <rizurita@yahoo.com>
It is a virtual terminal for Openmoko, with a complete fullscreen keyboard, and sound/screen/vibrator feedback.
You can set the colors and the transparency, set new keyboard layouts (hard yet) and replace the sounds.
The fullscreen keyboard aims to be complete and useful for bash, vi and common console tools, like top, mocp, mplayer, mc, gnu tools, etc. Moreover it is comfortable for fat fingers.
Also, if we write easy-to-use scripts to call or sms we would be able to use a shell for all the functions with an Openmoko mobile phone.
opkg install http://ffs.projects.openmoko.org/fatfingershell_0.2_armv4t.ipk
Just tap in the fatfingershell icon. Or run /usr/bin/fatfingershell.sh
For exit, just exit the shell (whit the shell command "exit" or CTRL+D for example).
Fn key changes the keyboard layout.
CTRL+, and CTRL+. to do scroll up/down.
To disable vibration, modify /usr/bin/fatfingershell.sh and remove the -v argument.
If you want sound, modify /usr/bin/fatfingershell.sh and add the -s argument.
If you have problems with sound, try to kill other applications using the sound device (check with lsof -n | egrep "dsp|snd"). Maybe you need to load the oss emulation module as well. You can do that with: modprobe snd_pcm_oss ; modprobe snd_mixer_oss
In some distributions, ncurses apps do not look well (top, mc, mocp)
with fatfingershell. You need to set TERM=vt100. From fatfingershell you can
run :
export TERM=vt100
or add "export TERM=vt100" into ~/.bashrc, or in your specific shell rc file.
You also would like to set utf8 as locale (if you see ugly frames,
or weird locations for labels in ncurses apps). Check LC_ALL. Maybe you need
to run :
export LC_ALL=utf-8
If you are a really good geek, you would like install bash as well, and then, set -o vi :-)
If you want to test other configured colors :
- replace colors.cfg with colors.cfg.example2
- edit fatfingershell.sh : replace the "./fatfingershell -e bash" with
./fatfingershell -d -e bash
or just edit colors.cfg and set your prefered colors.
This fat finger shell has several configuration files.
These files are very similar, and both of them set the location on screen of every key.
The format is:
x1 y1 x2 y2 key capital-key sound-number
The idea is this:
x1, y1, x2 and y2 are the two coordinates of the key, so if you want
to modify the layout you can use gimp to modify the bitmap and then
you need to modify these keyboard.cfg and keyboard1.cfg configuration
files.
key and capital-key are the symbols for the pressed key. These symbols are sent to shell. For example "e E". capital-key is the SHIF+key or CAPS-LOCK+key.
sound-number is a sound for the key pressed/released. There are four sounds. If you check the original configuration files the sounds are differents for neighbor keys. so you can recognize if you press the proper key or not. Of course, you need to listen for a while the different sounds for every key.
This configuration file set the colors for the middle layer and uppermost layer (font).
The file has two lines. Each line has four values (integer 0-255). Format:
red-value green-value blue-value tranparency red-value green-value blue-value tranparency
The first line is for the middle layer. The second line is for the uppermost layer (font).
0 0 0 100
26 160 26 255
(green font, dark gray middle layer. Nice contrast with default background
keyboard layout.)
228 223 145 200
0 0 0 255
(black font, beige middle layer. Nice contrast with black&white background
keyboard layout.)
There are two background keyboard layouts to choose. The layouts are identical but the default uses gray&black colors and the second one black&white.
If you want to use black&white use the "-d" command line argument for the binary.
http://ffs.projects.openmoko.org/fatfingershell_0.2.tar.gz
This software uses the source code of :
- xvt
- SDL_terminal
And the next libraries :
- SDL
The original libSDL_terminal was modified. Commented the "ttfwasinit()" call because it gives an exception float when running.