How to personalize your N900

Revision as of 02:47, 17 January 2010

1 How to personalize your N900 device
2 References

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

Desktop Shortcuts

Use the same shortcut twice on the desktops. Manually modify their .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/hildon-home by adding the "X-Multiple=true" entry.

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

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.

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]