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

Application 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! [1]

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

Powatool

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