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
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
Keyboard characters
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.
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! [1]
Command line hacks
Change wallpaper
gconftool -s --type string /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/1/bg-image $PATHTOIMAGE
Replace 1 with the number of the desktop that you'd like affected.[2]
Editing SMS and Chat templates
You can change the way you read SMS and chat conversations by editing the html files in /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html.[3]
Resources
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Day_2#Personalizing_your_Maemo_5_device
http://www.slideshare.net/hartti/n900-personalization
Information on how to add reboot button to power key menu, add new keyboard shortcuts N900 MODs
Advanced Tweaks: Collection of Low-Level Config-Files / Tools
References
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