[qtmoko] customizing aux/power button or adding button to home screen

Ed Kapitein ed at kapitein.org
Mon Mar 3 09:37:01 CET 2014


On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 13:31 +0000, robin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to access some programs in qtmoko faster, so my
> question is: Is there either a way to 
> 
>   to run an app directly when you press the aux button
> 
> and if so, how can I distinguish the length of a press (I know that the
> old android version did start three different processes depending on the
> length of time you pressed the power button (very short, ~2sec, ~4secs).
> 
> and if this is all not possible, could someone point me to where I should
> start reading to be able to change/extend the homescreen, to add any icon 
> with a call of that application I want to run.
> 
> and even more advanced is there any chance of bind the this process somehow
> to a single icon:
> -> Application -> QX -> Select Navit -> Click upArrow in Menu -> Click Launch
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> robin
> 
> 
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Hi Robin,

The Aux button will generate an interrupt when pressed or released.
if you look at /proc/interrupts
and find the line starting with "50:", you can see the number increase,
every time you press the aux button.

You could build a script that reads /proc/interrupts, and start another
script to launch you application.
There is however no way to distinguish between a "normal" press and one
to launch your app.

You can use a simple timing loop to check how long the aux key is held,
and only start your application when aux is pressed for more then x
seconds.

Kind regards,
Ed







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