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Groupie
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Set system poweroff screensaver on PocketBook ereaders
Hi.
I'm looking for a way to change the poweroff screensaver on my PocketBook ereader so that when I use Koreader the screensaver is the cover of the book I'm currently reading with koreader, rather than the last one opened by pocketbook's reader. I found a .lnk (microsoft link) in system/logo/ called "bookcover.lnk" that indicates the path to the last cover image to use. It would be rather easy to change this link to the image created by koreader: there are bash scrips to create .lnk files that could be easily run on the PB. My question is: what would be the easier (and cleanest!) way to launch a command each time koreader is started or (even better) is there already a way to easily have koreader change the system poweroff screensaver? Found this github issue, seems like the way PB handles the screensaver changed in last firmwares (an image in /mnt/ext1/system/logo/bookcover won't necessarily be used as the cover once the device is shut down, but the img linked by bookcover.lnk will). Thanks! Last edited by datanoise; 02-24-2020 at 03:58 PM. |
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Wizard
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Depending a little on the format it wants it'd be easy enough to write an image but if anything had changed the issue probably would've too. Especially note https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-515538113
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I noticed, thanks for your answer.
That's why a more generic way to launch a command when opening a file would make it easy to hack something (it's pretty easy to modify the .lnk file to point it to koreader's latest cover). Modifying the launcher could be a solution but I'd have preferred something cleaner... Last edited by datanoise; 02-25-2020 at 09:43 AM. |
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The cleanest (I dunno if this is possible on Pocketbook): figure out a way to stop the framework (aka inkview) to react to both input events (power key and magnetic cover) and figure out a way to tell inkview to go to sleep. If you find a way to do both you can repurpose all screensaver logic and it will behave as it does on kobos. The easiest way would be a plugin that generates a cover for each new book opened. You could repurpose part of screensaver logic but need to do a few things yourself, namely: - add logic to skip books without covers (a fallback image?) - check if the image was written to disk - check for FW incompatibilities and do nothing if the FW has other ways to write the screensaver. - ... |
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Thanks for your insight...
More complicated than I expected. I'll see if I can find some time to experiment with that... |
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Just in case someone is interested. Configure KOReader to save cover in:
/mnt/ext1/system/resources/Line/taskmgr_lock_background.bmp And make a little modification in KOReader code to kill the process taskmgr.app in the init method in readerview.lua: Quote:
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