New ebuild for LightFrame on Philips

pcmaster · Last edited by pcmaster on Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:24 pm; edited 3 times in total

If you have a Philips CRT monitor with LihgtFrame2, and you want to use lightframe uin your linux box, this ebuild may be useful for you:

Earthwings · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject:

For the ebuild:

I think most of the things in (R)DEPEND are not needed
Doesn't make DESTDIR=${D} install || die instead of einstall work?
Use dosed instead of mv; cat | sed; rm

Moved from Multimedia to Unsupported Software.
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pcmaster · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject:

Thank for your comments. I have installed the ebuild in my system (in PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory), and it works.

The things in RDEPEND are necessary:

virtual/x11: xlightframe only works in X, not in text mode.
sys-apps/gawk: isn't necessary for xlightframe program itself, but is needed by lfw.sh script that alows you to select a window and apply xlightframe on that window.

If using dosed instead of cat, sed, etc, works, then the SED dependency can be removed.
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pcmaster · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

I just have modified the ebuild using dosed.
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pcmaster · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

New update.

einstall works, but a developer have posted a message saying is not recommended to use einstall, and other some tips.

I updated the ebuild.
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Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

Out of sheer curiosity, would anyone be able to explain to me what this lightframe thing actually does?
All I can find is a bunch of sales speak and press releases saying that it allows for TV-quality images on my computer screen - last time I checked, my computer screen was much better than just about any TV.

Presumably there is something to it, or xlightframe wouldn't exist...
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pcmaster · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

xlightframe works only on Philips monitors.

Some Philips CRT monitors have a chip in their circuitry that allows to increase the bright of the screen in a certain area or in the entire screen. Hightlighted area are more brilliant than not hightlighted area.

Activating xlightframe in an are on you are watching TV or video, increases the image quality. Is not useful with text.

The LightFrame software that comes with Philips monitors are Windows-only, but in sourceforge.net is available a free software supporting this feature of Philips monitors. This is the page:

http://xlightframe.sourceforge.net/

http://www.prdomain.com/companies/p/philips/news_releases/pr_20011030_lightframe.htm

Why this post are moved to unsupported software forum?
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pcmaster · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

Archangel1: see this example:

Desttop fragment without Lightframe activated:

http://img277.imageshack.us/img277/3851/16gu.jpg

The same destop activating Lightframe in an area where the xawdecode window is:

http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/8118/21el.jpg

sorry for the camera saturation

After moving the xawdecode window:

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1430/30ei.jpg

The highlighted area is the LightFrame window. This is a monitor feature, a desktop capture don't show the efect.

In the upper right corner, you can see the LightFrame2 logo in the monitor.
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