sleeping.png transparent wallpaper support after 20-minute timeout

[technicalguy]

I commented this on another issue (#157), but it is already closed so I am opening a new issue.

My sleeping.png has working transparency only if I press the sleep button. If I leave it for 20min to auto-sleep then it appears against a white background. 😢

P.S. Everything else about remarkable-hacks is absolutely amazing and I couldn't live without it! That's why I'm a sponsor!

[dstango]

are you sure sleeping.png and suspended.png both have transparency? There are different files used for the two situations.

It's working fine for me...

[technicalguy]

Ahh, I only had a suspended.png and not a sleeping.png. I've made a sleeping.png now and I will report back.

[technicalguy]

Hm, I thought it worked, but just today it didn't seem to work :/

[stanlrt]

Works for me using those

[technicalguy]

Works for me using those
– @StLa1

So if you wait for 20min you see the mostly transparent image that says “Sleeping Mode” (sleeping.png)? And the transparency works?

My sleeping.png works fine when I manually press the power button, but not if I wait for 20min.

[stanlrt]

Yes, there will be a black bar at the bottom, but the rest of the screen shows the content that was displayed before sleep

[technicalguy]

I think it may have been an issue with trying to use remux at the same time

[dominique-unruh]

I can confirm @technicalguy's issue. If the remarkable goes to sleep via timeout, it shows only a black bar on top (saying press a button). I have both sleeping.png (created it myself, wasn't there before) and suspend.png. Pressing the power button shows suspend.png. sleeping.png is never shown.

I run 2.10.3.379-patch_28.2.01-0-ge63b24f

EDIT: My reMarkable2 rebooted (I don't know what caused the reboot, software seems to be still the same) and afterwards the sleeping.png is shown. So possibly all that is needed is a reboot after installing sleeping.png.

[HelloThisIsFlo]

I wasn't sure where the best place was to ask this, but...
...I can't get either auto-sleep or button-sleep to work with transparent sleeping.png or suspended.png.

Is there anything extra to do? (besides installing remarkable-hacks)

[HelloThisIsFlo]

Update: I figured it out, both the 20-min screens and the click-to-lock screens are working for me. Here were the problems

• click-to-lock screen / suspended.png: This one only works if you have no passcode set up, if there's a passcode, the transparent section will appear blank.
• 20-min screen / sleeping.png: This one seems to be cached, make sure to reboot after copying the file on the device.

[HelloThisIsFlo]

Maybe we could add the info to the README.md and close this issue?

I don't mind doing a PR but I'm not sure where would be the best place to put that info. What do you think @ddvk ?

[martin-braun]

@FlorianKempenich Like so? #422

[HelloThisIsFlo]

@martin-braun Yep, that looks good. I think I had searched the term "transparent" on the readme when I had this problem. So, with your update, I would have found the info 👍
Thank you for updating 🙂

[martin-braun]

@FlorianKempenich "transparent" would not hit though, I rather use "support for transparent pixels in ..." instead of "transparency support for ..." then.

@ddvk Please take a look for your PR and maybe we can close this, unless you think it's possible to make it work with lock passcode as well?

[HelloThisIsFlo]

@martin-braun That's a good point, but on most browser it would still kind of work: As we start typing the word "transparen..." will get highlighted, that should be enough.

That being said, now that I think about it, my first thought when I looked for this feature was not actually to use the term 'transparent' or 'transparency', I went for these terms after a bit of research. Originally I was looking for something like: "Remove lock screen", or "View notes when tablet is locked". So, something around that might be even more useful to the end-user. Because, in the end, that's the real feature/goal. What do you think? 🙂

[martin-braun]

@FlorianKempenich Now you are going for the SEO route, don't you? ;)
I think people who look for transparent support would know about those file names and perform a better Google Search to match our phrase, don't you think?

"reMarkable View notes when tablet is locked" is not a good search for this feature, because it will result in hits for things like the lock screen and this feature is not dedicated for viewing notes while the screen is locked, but also to have cool art that allows to look through:

And ddvk's hack is mentioned on the reference above as well.

I would say it's good to go, short and precise. You are still free to make a PR to improve further. :)

[HelloThisIsFlo]

Didn't really think about SEO no. Was just trying to think what would have been helpful when I looked for it.

But sure, the current version is better than nothing at all. Thanks for the contribution 👍