Very useful feature in OsmAnd

I have been using OsmAnd for years now but discovered this feature only recently…

„Settings“ -> „Navigation“ -> „Turn screen on“

OsmAnd wants then to become a device administrator.

What does it do? When your screen is off, OsmAnd turns it on for a few seconds when you get instructions and then turns it off again. The time frame is long enough to get a quick overview of the current track.

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Will man unterwegs auf Touren/Radreisen Technik benutzen, dann braucht man Strom; sehr viel davon. Z. B. ist bei eingeschaltetem GPS die Batterie meines Android-Geräts schon nach ca. 3 Stunden leer.

Die Erste Idee – Nabendynamo mit Pufferakku

Meine erste Idee für die Stromversorgung unterwegs war E-Werk von “Busch und Müller”. Dieses Gerät wird an einen Nabendynamo angeschlossen und wandelt den Wechselstrom des Dynamos in Gleichstrom mit einstellbarer Stromstärke und Spannung um.

Prevent your laptop from sleep/suspend while something important is running…

The problem

My laptop is configured to go to sleep after two minutes of being idle.

But it also suspends while a backup to an external disk is running :(

The solution

The solution is to tell your system that something important is running and that it should not go to sleep/suspend or to shut down.

With systemd you can use the command „systemd-inhibit“. Read the man page… (man systemd-inhibit).

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Vollbepacktes Fahrrad; bereit für eine Tour :) Straße von Unterreichenbach nach Grunbach

How to configure the clock/calendar widget of KDE/Plasma to display PIM events…

Finally the ability of the clock/calendar widget to display your PIM events came back in the latest update of KDE/Plasma :)

You need at least the following versions:

  • „KDE Plasma“ >=5.7.4
  • „KDE Frameworks“ >=5.25.0

You can check this when you start „kinfocenter“.

To be able to see your events you must enable the PIM events plugin for your widget.