How to personalize your N900

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==How to personalize your N900 device==
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#REDIRECT [[Customizing Maemo]]
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This page will collect together information on how to change how your device (screen) looks and how it sounds
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===Various settings===
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Settings panel
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Desktop Edit mode
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===Ringing tones / Ring tones / Ring tunes ===
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===Desktop Shortcuts===
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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.
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===[[Themes]]===
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There device itself has a limited amount of Themes installed, but there are already [[List_of_Themes_for_Maemo5|a number of alternative themes available]].
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===Transitions===
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Transition Control is an application which allows you to change various transition effects of the phone. Another approach is to edit the
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/usr/share/hildon-desktop/transitions.ini file
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===Device boot video===
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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.
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http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=347794&postcount=1
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===Keyboard characters===
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[[Remapping keyboard]]
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[[Special_characters_view]]
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===Using the same widget on multiple desktops===
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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.
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===Application Menu===
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[[Application Menu]]
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===Camera Sound===
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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! <ref name="camsnd">[http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=462484 Silent Camera Hack ]</ref>
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==Command line hacks==
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===Change wallpaper===
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gconftool -s --type string /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/1/bg-image $PATHTOIMAGE
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Replace 1 with the number of the desktop that you'd like affected.<ref>http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=483028&postcount=2</ref>
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==Editing SMS and Chat templates==
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You can change the way you read SMS and chat conversations by editing the html files in /usr/share/rtcom-messaging-ui/html.<ref>http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36618</ref>
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==Resources==
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http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Day_2#Personalizing_your_Maemo_5_device
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http://www.slideshare.net/hartti/n900-personalization
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Information on how to add reboot button to power key menu, add new keyboard shortcuts [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39565 N900 MODs]
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[https://garage.maemo.org/projects/powatool/ Powatool]
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Advanced Tweaks: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39948 Collection of Low-Level Config-Files / Tools]
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Power_users]]
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[[Category:Articles in need of expansion]]
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[[Category:N900]]
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