How to personalize your N900

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How to personalize your N900 device

Various settings

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.

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

Resources

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Day_2#Personalizing_your_Maemo_5_device

http://www.slideshare.net/hartti/n900-personalization