Customizing maemo for power users

Please remember, that doing anything instructed here is potentially dangerous. Please see General precautions for further information.


Modifying led colours and patterns

There are multiple triggers for led blinking. All can be found in

/etc/mce/mce.ini

The file can be edited with any text editor that can be run with Root access and open the file. So GUI - editors probably don't work, but terminal versions all will.

Step by step instructions

  • Open terminal
  • Gain Root access
  • Make a backup (not necessary!) from original mce.ini -file, for example:
cp /etc/mce/mce.ini /etc/mce/mce.ini_old
  • Open /etc/mce/mce.ini with a text editor
  • Search for a line:
[LEDPatternLystiRX51]
  • Make your changes to the lines below
  • Save
  • Restart mce -process. Either reboot or type to terminal:
initctl stop mce; sleep 2; initctl start mce

Constructing own patterns

The mce.ini -file has description header before pattern defining start. Here will be hopefully easier way to visualize the long strings.


source: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37691