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| - | ====== Nokia N9 For Linux Users ====== | ||
| - | Since about 20% of our lab are N9 users, it seems worth maintaining a page for sharing tips and tricks. | ||
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| - | ===== Synchronizing Contacts and Calendars ===== | ||
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| - | If you do not want to entrust your data to //The Cloud//, you can sync the N9 directly to the desktop. Here is the most functional way I found: | ||
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| - | * On the N9, install [[http://people.debian.org/~ovek/harmattan/|syncevolution_*_armel.deb]]. | ||
| - | * On the host PC, run ''syncevo-http-server -q %%http://localhost:9000/syncevolution%%''. | ||
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| - | This allows synchronization of the contacts and of multiple calendars. Todos and notes cannot currently be sync'ed in this way, but this may [[http://lists.syncevolution.org/pipermail/syncevolution/2012-January/003289.html|follow]] at some point. | ||
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| - | There does not currently seem to be a straightforward way for SyncEvolution to sync over [[http://lists.syncevolution.org/pipermail/syncevolution/2012-January/003291.html|Bluetooth/OBEX]]. One can use the N9 built-in SyncML client to sync with a desktop Evolution server over Bluetooth, but this solutions apparently has its [[http://lists.syncevolution.org/pipermail/syncevolution/2012-January/003279.html|weaknesses]]. | ||
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| - | I do not miss Bluetooth sync much, as I need to keep the USB cable around for recharging anyway. | ||
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| - | ===== Synchronizing Notes ===== | ||
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| - | Notes can be sync'ed both ways as follows: | ||
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| - | * On both the N9 and on the host system, install ''git''. | ||
| - | * Place all your notes in flat files, one file per note. | ||
| - | * On the N9, place a couple of scripts that ''git push'' and ''git pull'' your Notes directory. | ||
| - | * A full sync is then done by something like the following sequence: | ||
| - | - ''push'' on the N9 | ||
| - | - ''pull'' on the host | ||
| - | - ''push'' on the host | ||
| - | - ''pull'' on the N9 | ||
| - | Voilà. Much better than conventional solutions, since notes are sync'able even if they are simultaneously edited on both sides. And you get to keep your entire history. | ||
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| - | The drawback is lack of integration with the N9. Editing notes can be tedious. You can alleviate this a bit by [[http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/platform-api-reference/xml/daily-docs/libcontentaction/index.html#xdgmimehandling|configuring]] the N9 to open text files inside ''nano'' instead of the document viewer. | ||
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| - | ===== Synchronizing Encrypted Data ===== | ||
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| - | Many people carry encrypted data around with them, such as passwords. There are various //keyring//, //wallet// etc. programs out there to maintain these, but I did not find a good solution for the N9, at least none that allowed any straightforward way of sync'ing such data with the desktop. But here is a simple solution that covers most use cases: | ||
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| - | * On both the N9 and on the host system, install ''gpg''. | ||
| - | * Write little scripts for encryption and decryption of files. | ||
| - | * Keep all your encrypted data in a subtree of the file system, one record per (encrypted) file. | ||
| - | * Sync this directory subtree from the desktop to the N9 using ''rsync''. | ||
| - | * [[http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/platform-api-reference/xml/daily-docs/libcontentaction/index.html#xdgmimehandling|Configure]] the N9 to associate with ''.gpg'' files the action of running, inside the Meego Terminal, a script that decrypts it to ''stdout''. | ||
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| - | Voilà. Much better than any keyring/wallet program, at least for Emacs users. To consult a password on the N9, simply open the file in a file manager (I recommend Filebox), and it will pop up the terminal, ask for your passphrase, and dump the record to the screen. | ||
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| - | The drawback is that encrypted files can only be edited on one of the two machines, not on both. | ||
| - | ===== Offline Reading ===== | ||
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| - | I have a little script that pulls a URL with prerequisites using ''wget'', cleans the pulled HTML files with ''tidy'', and strips out all ''<script>''s with a tiny XSLT transformation (I do not know of a way to turn off Javascript with the stock Web browser). The whole batch is then moved to the N9 by my sync script, and I always have a bunch of online reading material with me. | ||
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