Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 152

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
also compiled a few plugins for abiword, mainly text converters so you can open additional
document types such as OpenOffice, MSWrite and PDF files. I also got printing to a PDF file working
partially. Currently it only works with certain fonts, so if the results looks like garbage, try again
with another font.
Firefox has been enhanced a bit. It originally had a small problem with its own launch script but
now it launches itself into a new tab if you launch firefox multiple times when it has already been
started. I have also compiled the gplflash plugin so flash animations can be viewed with firefox. A
java plugin is also available, but it requires jamvm and classpath (available on the java image) and
perl (available on the zgcc image).
GQView, xpdf, grisbi, putty and abiword have been recompiled to force them to stick to the
640x480 screen size and not go beyond. Also, most applications have been customised to start in
full screen but not covering the bottom menu bar. This has been done for both portrait as well as
landscape based models and is managed by FluxBox. I also hacked GTK2 to restrict the window size
to 640x480 and 480x640, so hopefully all applications will fit onto the screen. I have tested
AbiWord and FireFox and all dialog boxes I could find were correctly sized. However, if there are
any oversized windows, then use Alt+n to maximise the window or Alt+arrow keys to move them
around. I purposely hacked GTK2 instead of the window manager (fluxbox) which is where it should
be fixed. However, since X/Qt can run in rootless mode without a window manager, the window size
needs to be controlled higher up in GTK2.
A rotate feature which resizes the windows of running applications has also been added and is
accessible from the FluxBox menu.
StarDict has not been configured with any default dictionaries. You will need to install your own
dictionaries into /usr/local/share/stardict/dic. Alternatively, I have created a huge squashfs image
with many stardict and qbedic dictionaries as well as the stardict sound files for pronouncing the
words in English. You can use that image (dictionaries.squashfs) as well but you will need more
than 300MB of space for it.
xmms has been hacked to allow it to use more Zauri friendly keys. You can now use the OK and
Cancel keys as Play and Stop. Also Up and Down have been reassigned to change tracks and N and
M are now used for volume control. The goal was to be able to use the sidekeys on the back of the
Zaurus to control xmms just like the MusicPlayer when the display is closed or you are using it in
PDA mode (portrait) without access to the keyboard. xmms can play wav, mp3 and mod files and I
have also compiled mplayer 1.1pre8 with X11 support so xmms can launch mplayer inside a little
gtk window for watching short clips.
I have also compiled the mplayer GUI - gmplayer. Note that this version of mplayer runs via X/Qt
which runs via a frame buffer through QT/E so it will never be as fast as mplayer running via bvdd
or ati. However, mplayer is compiled with XScale CPU optimisation so it does perform reasonably
for small clips and it supports more codecs than the older version.
A hacked version of DOSBox is also included. The : key has been hacked to work in this version. Fn
+ ; will give the : key. Fn + Ctrl + ; will give the ; key. To exit dosbox just type exit.
In addition, the following tools are available via the command line in pdaXqtrom:
pdf tools
pdffonts
pdfimages
pdfinfo
pdftohtml
pdftoppm
pdftops
pdftotext
video tools
swfplayer
mplayer2
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