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PocketBook Custom Desktop Icons, Custom App Icons and Custom App Names
Hi all,
Please see this link for a guide to customizing your PocketBook desktop and icons: https://github.com/jjrrw174/PocketBo...Customizations The spoiler below is my initial findings. This is out of date. Please following the github link. Thanks to everyone who helped on this thread ![]() Spoiler:
Last edited by jrw174; 08-10-2023 at 02:33 PM. Reason: Adding link to updated guide and other findings we made |
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I can't seem to find where thr configs are for custom apps(KoReader). If anyone knows where these are found. I'm looking at this to remove them from the user apps category and chnage the icons and app names. Any help would be appreciated
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Nice one.
Where do the app icons themselves live? Can they be swapped out or modified? |
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Useful info though... I may have another bash at trying to locate and remove the cutesy sleep screen icon, the one with the ZZzzzz
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Quote:
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In the Theme file (line.pbt), for which no compiler for newer firmware version exists. But seeing the trick with the zzzZ picture I guess there probably can be found a workaround.
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Something I have found:
1. Found a decompiler for Line.pbt which is the pocketbook theme located in /ebrmain/themes. I downloaded the Windows zip version from this this link https://github.com/Lighting/pbtheme/releases/tag/v2.2.0 2. Ran this command in CMD to decompile the file Line.pbt pbtheme -e Line.pbt >output.txt 3. In the output.txt file I found desktop.launcher.shortcut.1.position=99,1304,384,1 14 desktop.launcher.shortcut.1.text=@Library desktop.launcher.shortcut.1.path=/ebrmain/bin/explorer.app desktop.launcher.shortcut.1.icon=desktop_launcher_ library desktop.launcher.shortcut.1.icon.focus=desktop_lau ncher_library_f Getting closer. Going to see if I can make changes and re-compile |
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Yeah, decompile was mostly working. The trouble I had was recompiling it. For that I found no software working but I guess we don't need it if the trick with the Theme folder is working.
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In the thread I linked another fourm post that has a user saying themes work and I asked for some details but haven't heard anything back yet :/ would be good to know if they have any info
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I quickly tried creating the system/resources/Line directory and putting a BMP with the same name of the library icon in the theme config but no changes
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Its just try and error. I'm quite certain that those BMP files have to follow some rules, though I did not try it. But following the logic of other PB hacks, files in this aformentioned directory should have priority over files in the lines.pbt archive.
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I spent a large part of today trying to get pbres(https://github.com/Enyby/pbres) working again since it has the built in -d option to decompile pbt.
I am a programmer but not for C so this was a bit of undertaking. I have the pbres script working now except the decompressed images all come out black. I'll attach the Pbres I edited here incase someone with more knowledge can work it out. The steps I took to have this working on Windows 11. 1. Install msys2 2. Launch msys2 32 bit 3. Run pacman -Syu and accept the updates 4. Run pacman -Syu again and accept anymore updates 5. Run pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain to have GCC libraries 6. Put the Pbres.c file the home directory you installed msys2. Ex: C:\msys64\home 7. Put the Line.pbt file in the same home directory 8. In msys2 32 command window, CD to the home folder 9. Run gcc pbres.c -lz -static -o pbres.exe 10. Run the command ./Pbres -d Line.pbt 11. Let the script run, when complete go to the home folder and you will have the results. Theme.cfg is the resources of the theme itself and res4bpp folder is the bmp files. All black for some reason ![]() |
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Forgot to upload the files lol. Here they are
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From the dephts of my hdd, don't remember the source:
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