An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

fgarbrecht · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Philadelphia

Aaaargh! I put in the /etc/directfbrc file and on bootup I get this:

(*) parsing config file ' /etc/directfbrc' .
framebuffer_mode.c <665>
(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate (&dfb)]: Not supported!
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

So it sits for 5 minutes, tries again and gives the same message, except that now its
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and on and on....

Anyone seen this, know why or what do do?

Thanks
Fred

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

What mode did you use in the /etc/directfbrc? My guess would be that perhaps the right mode isnt being used for the video card?

mode=1024x768 (or whatever you use)

fgarbrecht · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Philadelphia

I used mode=1024x768 which is the mode I've always used.

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s4t4n · Retired Dev Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 433 Location: Italy

First, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Michele Noberasco, author of qingy. I also think this is my first post on the forums...

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ksuther · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject:

I did the initial setup and it works...sorta. It draws all over the screen and doesn't completely draw over my old framebuffer splash. When I try to select what session I want to run, going up and down over them causes the options to draw over each other, so I have no idea what session I'm logging into.

Any idea?

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ksuther · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:45 am Post subject:

cybe · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 67 Location: Finland

Great program... Happened to wonder the other day if there is such a program since its a bit disturbing with two different logins, and the Qingy approach is the right one...

Noticed that screen doesn't seem to work because of Qingy, it gives me this:

Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty2' - please check.

Also, the mouse isn't working for me, I can move the pointer a few pixels, then it dissapears...

As for suggestions for further development, probably no new ideas: non graphical mode, more customizabilty options...[/quote]
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maw · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:04 pm Post subject:

Well, it's a nice little program. The default theme's text is very hard to read against the background, but I'll do my own theme for it anyway at some point to match my bootsplash.

Some suggestions for future enhancement though:

- don't echo password characters, even as masked - a normal getty login doesn't echo at all, and this is the way I prefer it, then nobody knows how long your password is unless they're good at keyboard watching
- make the session choice mouse-interactive, a drop-down list or something, although I suspect you may have to code that from scratch. It would be helpful though
- please let enter navigate from the username field to the password field, then enter in password field to attempt login. Please!!!!
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maw · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 9:56 am Post subject:

Maybe. As long as I can turn it off, I'm happy.

I think I can do a patch to make Enter in the username field behave like I want to. The source code is quite pleasantly easy to read :-)

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maw · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

Oh, when Qingy is told to shut down or reboot, I get part of my console background back (the border around the actual text box), but the text area remains black and I can't see the output of shutdown. I believe hiding the output is intentional, but it would be nice if it somehow managed to avoid getting part of the bootsplash redrawn on top of it.
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maw · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

I have a directfbrc file, had to in order to get Qingy to run at 1280x1024. It just says

mode=1280x1024

in it, I don't think I'm missing anything... the problem only occurs during the time shutdown is running, when the border of my console image (it has a border where no text is drawn) gets drawn on top of Qingy's 'shutting down' screen. I hope there's something that can be done about this, but I have no idea if it's a Qingy thing or a bootsplash thing or a DirectFB thing or another thing entirely.

Hiding the last username would be good. Or maybe an option not to display the last username at all, but a setting where it automatically uses their last selected session unless they say otherwise? Might be better for shared computers (although mine isn't shared, I must admit). Although at this point I think it's worth remembering that the GNOME folks do have a point, too many options can be bad. Obviously don't do anything you're not happy with, it's your program, and I can always modify my own copy of it if I get really frustrated with anything, since you write such nice readable code :-)

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mweinstein · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 11

Pardon the stupid question, but I am relatively new to Gentoo and need to know how to build quigy from the ebuild after I download it. I tried "emerge qingy-0.2.ebuild" but it won't work.

Thanks! Mark

slymonkey · n00b Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 45

ebuild qingy-0.2.ebuild digest
ebuild qingy-0.2.ebuild merge
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