How to personalize your N900
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How to personalize your N900 device
This page will collect together information on how to change how your device (screen) looks and how it sounds
Various settings
Settings panel Desktop Edit mode
Ringing tones / Ring tones / Ring tunes
Background images
Background images for the home (desktop) screens can be changed individually or all at once using background image sets. (Changing of background of the main screen of selected applications is possible as well - ThemeMaker support?)
The size of the background image is 800x480.
The background image set is defined in a .desktop file
[Desktop Entry] Type=Background Image Name=Deers Hidden=true X-File1=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer1.png X-File2=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer2.png X-File3=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer3.png X-File4=/home/user/MyDocs/.images/deer4.png X-Order=01
Themes
There device itself has a limited amount of Themes installed, but there are already a number of alternative themes available.
Transitions
Transition Control is an application which allows you to change various transition effects of the phone. Another approach is to edit the /usr/share/hildon-desktop/transitions.ini file
Device boot video
By default the device displays "Nokia Hands" video while booting up. it is possible to change the video shown during the boot-up or add additional videos in the sequence.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=347794&postcount=1
Notification light
http://wiki.maemo.org/LED_patterns
Keyboard characters
Remapping keyboard Special_characters_view
Using the same widget on multiple desktops
The folder /usr/share/applications/hildon contains files that contain info about installed programs. Duplicating these files will result in duplicating them in the shortcut list. However, this will result in a side effect causing the program to show multiple times the programs in the "More.." folder. You can fix this problem by adding an Exclude tag to the menu file as such[1]:
<Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <Directory>applications.directory</Directory> <OnlyUnallocated/> <Include> <All/> </Include> <Exclude> <Filename>rtcom-call-ui-2.desktop</Filename> <Filename>rtcom-call-ui-3.desktop</Filename> <Filename>rtcom-call-ui-4.desktop</Filename> </Exclude> </Menu>
Application Menu
Camera Sound
In /usr/share/sounds the files camera_snd_title_1, 2 and 3 (1 is the camera shutter sound, 2 is the video recording sound and 3 is the focus sound) just replace them with any working wav sound file OR for a SILENT CAMERA just rename or delete these files! [2]
Resources
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Day_2#Personalizing_your_Maemo_5_device
http://www.slideshare.net/hartti/n900-personalization
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39565 (contains information how to add reboot button to power key menu, add new keyboard shortcuts
References
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