Patches for use with kobopatch.
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This repository stores patches for use with kobopatch. See the threads on MobileRead for more information.
Will be continued from #18.
Just a heads up ;).
I'd have sent a PR, but I've been saddled with a last minute babysitting job, so I'm on the laptop right now ;).
As the title indicates, why not port kobo forma's no footer/header CSS to kao and other devices?
Several users are complaining about Kobo's decision to reverse which data was in header/footer.
I don't even know if this is possible and I wouldn't expect any early action from anyone but at least the thought won't get lost.
Also, improve instructions, maybe add a .desktop for Linux users.
Everything on MobileRead suggests that "Changing the info panel in full size screensaver" should work on all versions. But it isn't working on my Glo HD.
I would love to be able to customise the info panel, for example,
On the Kobo Forma, the brightness icon is the same whatever the brightness level, whether 0%, 1%... 5%... 50%... 100%. It's an icon of a sun.
I'd like to request the Kobo patch team to either:
A) replace the sun icon with a different icon when the light is completely off (for example, a circle that is filled with black)
or
B) create something beside the sun icon to indicate the light is completely off (for example,the word "0% light")
Rationale for this request: occasionally, when I'm in a completely dark room, I turn on the brightness from 0% to 1%. The next day, in the daytime, I read on my Kobo Forma forgetting that the brightness is on, and wading battery because I don't need the light at all in the daytime.
Hi,
I'd like to have the system font changed. It would be great that we could
use side-loaded fonts for system font.
Many thanks.
Add support for FeatureSettings Screenshots=true/false.
Hi
thanks for the new patcher. I wanted to switch over from the old patcher to this one, and found that the changes in kobopatch.yaml are not used.
Here the relevant part of kobopatch_4.9.11311/kobopatch.yaml (all patch name lines are correctly intended by 4 spaces):
overrides:
src/nickel.patch:
Custom left & right margins: yes
Fix three KePub fullScreenReading bugs: yes
Change dicthtml strings to micthtml: yes
src/libadobe.so.patch:
src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch:
Show all games: yes
Custom reading footer style: yes
Dictionary pop-up frame size increase: yes
New home screen increasing cover size: yes
Fix reading stats/author name cut off when series is showing: yes
Increase the cover size in library: yes
Increase the view details container size: yes
Custom font to collection and author titles: yes
New home screen subtitle custom font: yes
Remove footer (row3) and increase cover size on new home screen: yes
src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.patch:
Default ePub monospace font (Courier): yes
after that I run the .sh or the respective binary and get:
kobopatch v0.7.6
https://github.com/geek1011/kobopatch
Reading config file (kobopatch.yaml)
Opening input file
Patching ./usr/local/Kobo/librmsdk.so.1.0.0
...
but all patches are marked as disabled and skipped.
Thanks
Norbert
The Set font scale patch as it is does not keep the same font size in ePub before the patch is applied. Values of 8 do not work well. Values of 4 are the correct defaults. Sure you can change the values if you want, but if you don't want, then 4 is what needs to be put in place. Here is the patch with the values of 4 instead of 8.
Set font scale factor:
- Enabled: yes
- Description: |
This patch sets the font scale factor for ePub and KePub readers.
See also `ePub uniform font scale` and `Custom font sizes` patches.
# Font scale factor is calculated as (font size slider) / (X+32)
# Original value X=14, so original scale factor is (font size slider) / 46.
# Allowed replacement values for X: 0-15 (smaller X --> larger scale factor)
- ReplaceInt: {Offset: 0x52C522, Find: 14, Replace: 4} # ePub
- ReplaceInt: {Offset: 0xAE9C80, Find: 14, Replace: 4} # KePub
1. (v43)
2. (v44)
Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen and New home screen increasing cover size (@geek1011)3. (v45)
@geek1011 For your consideration once you feel like looking at patches again.
There was a request in the MR 'Kobo future firmware feature request thread' MR:post-3913806 regarding having the ability to set Comfortlight start time earlier than 21:00.
Naturally I'm bringing it to your attention because it's one I'd be interested in myself.😁 It can be dark by 15:00 in the UK in winter. Absolutely no urgency.
Thanks for all the work!
There's a note under this option:
# This patch is not necessary anymore, as there is a fully working config setting
# now, but is being kept for backwards compatibility with old kobopatch configs.
How do I access this config setting?
I'm going to make a new patch to allow using USB storage before unlocking the device. This might seem useless, but it will make it possible to recover from almost all segfaults from a mistake in a patch without factory resetting, as there isn't much code run before the first unlock which the patches touch.
The motivation for this patch came from working on the requested homescreen patches (#39, #40).
For version 4.9.11311
And here we go again...
v45:
v45/v46:
v45+:
I like holding my Kobo Forma in my right hand.
On my Kobo Forma, I have inverted "Next" and "Previous" page-control hardware buttons.
These two things combined seem to cause my Forma, after waking up or powering on, to momentarily have the text or the enter-your-PIN page to be upside down, before correcting itself to be right-side up. I don't want to waste time every time I pick up my Forma waiting for it to have the right orientation. That wastes 5 seconds every time.
I noticed that when my Next and Previous buttons are not inverted, I don't have this temporary hiccup. But, I will not choose "non-inverted" just to avoid this hiccup. I would like to invert my page-control buttons AND not have this glitch.
geek1011, can you add a patch that fixes this?
Maybe we can we can force the Kobo Forma into one of five orientations (regardless of Kobo's pitch axis):
oren64's nickel patch 'Increase headlines font' not working for LibraH2O. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3931895&postcount=177
Semwize has provided the necessary Find/Replaces so I'm going to commit an update and change the Description to be a bit more helpful about what it actually does.
I posted about my experience here, but basically, the patch applies without errors, but the full list of dictionaries doesn't appear in the drop down box; just a small subset. And the Settings menu thinks there are no dictionaries installed, despite the Installed and IsSynced columns in the database all being set to true and the micthtml files all being there. And you can still do searches on the dictionaries that are selectable, meaning that changing the file name does work since the Kobo can still access them.
Remove the patch and rename everything to dicthtml format, and everything works as expected again. Patch worked fine in 4.19 and earlier.
There are quite a few patches which take a bit of time to update (usually multiple int replacements), but don't change relative offsets often.
The CSS patches have already been simplified for v52.
The following patches will be made multi-version for 4.15.12920 or 4.17.13651+:
Patches will be made multi-version if they:
And a quick note: Due to some implementation details in the kobopatch symbol-finding, offsets from a symbol found by other tools will usually need to be decreased by 1 to work.
Continuing from #48 (comment).
In particular, that bit of the FAQ in the relevant patch (libnickel's Rename new home screen footer).
(Brought on by trekk's report over here of it eating the "o" in the German keyboard layout).
I didn't even remember that this could happen, tshering remembered something about it, and Semwize pointed out to us that it was in fact mentioned in the FAQ ;p.
@geek1011
This is what I've been using. I don't know if it answers your question but I think it's working OK.
I believe the only bits I changed myself are the last 10 lines of ReplaceFloat custom line-height values. You're on your own with the FindBaseAddressHex, ReplaceBytes bits :)
My 10 line spacing values - MV:
- Enabled: no
- PatchGroup: Line spacing values alternatives
- Description: |
This patch changes the values on the line spacing adjustment slider,
reducing the number of spacing options from 15 to 10, but allowing
much narrower spacing values to be set.
Created by GeoffR for fw 4.11.11980
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3772937&postcount=248
# Bypass code-constructed values 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0
- FindBaseAddressHex: 4F F0 00 09 07 F1 80 01 4F F0 00 08 C3 F6 F0 79 3C 1D F3 58 20 46 61 E9 1E 89 7B 60
- ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 20, FindH: 20 46 61 E9 1E 89, ReplaceH: 7B 60 03 E0 00 BF}
- ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 108, FindH: 20 46, ReplaceH: 03 E0}
- ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 150, FindH: 20 46, ReplaceH: 03 E0}
- ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 210, FindH: 20 46, ReplaceH: 03 E0}
- ReplaceBytes: {Offset: 312, FindH: 20 46, ReplaceH: 03 E0}
# 10 values for replacement, change these replace_float values to suit:
- FindBaseAddressHex: CD CC CC CC CC CC F0 3F 1F 85 EB 51 B8 1E F1 3F
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 0, Find: 1.05, Replace: 0.8}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 8, Find: 1.07, Replace: 0.85}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 16, Find: 1.1, Replace: 0.9}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 24, Find: 1.35, Replace: 0.92}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 32, Find: 1.7, Replace: 0.94}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 40, Find: 1.8, Replace: 0.96}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 48, Find: 2.2, Replace: 0.98}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 56, Find: 2.4, Replace: 1.0}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 64, Find: 2.6, Replace: 1.02}
- ReplaceFloat: {Offset: 72, Find: 2.8, Replace: 1.04}I want to try to track down why using "Custom new header/footer font" to change font-family from Avenir to whatever only works on the Chapter name, Book title parts of header/footer, not the progress part on the right.
@geek1011 @NiLuJe
I'm not asking you to do this for me (at least not yet :)) but before I spend a lot of effort with trial & error in nickel CSS I'm asking whether you already know the answer from when you were researching "Don't uppercase header/footer text"?
GeoffR's old patch "Custom reading footer style" included customisation of both height and style of the old footer.
The new patch "Reduce new header/footer height" handles the height part for both header/footer. There is not yet a patch to handle the style aspects. I am working on adding it.
It will be of most use to users where the default Avenir font serves their native language quite badly because it is not a Kobo-supported language, e.g. Russian, Vietnamese. However it will be usable by anyone for purely cosmetic purposes or just-because-we-like-to-tinker.
This would make it easier for the people who use Windows to develop/update patches.
the 3 patches still not working for Japanese(Vertical) and English.
There are at least 5 different patches about this, and it's not clear (even to me) what they all do. Let's collect some notes here which can be turned into a FAQ.
cc @jackiew1
@geek1011
See 11.1.2020 posts in MR:thread-325572
It seems you can no longer change font-weight in standard epubs. This seems to be true even in unpatched 4.19 firmware with built-in fonts. The Advanced menu opens, the slider works, but there is no change to the epub's font-weight.
I'm not sure whether this is fixable, but if anyone can you can.
From MR:post-3915600, also a few older requests which I don't remember anymore.
Hi,
Will this patch be updated for 4.18? I did not see a TODO/issue for it like with some others.
@geek1011, I don't know whether you saw this but an MR user has posted an update if you wanted to include it in the standard pack for next time.
MR:post-3894655
I think we need more users like this :)
v52:
v52/v53:
The navigation scrubber is new in 4.17 so there aren't any existing patches. I am planning to add one. I have found the relevant nickel CSS code.
Like issue 26, it will be of most use to users whose language is not officially supported by Kobo, e.g. Russian, where the default Avenir font is pretty hopeless and the fallback CJK font even worse.
Continuing from #48.
From MR:post-3916668, MR:post-3859558, MR:post-3881085, MR:post-3800790, and a few other ones.
based on latest Cyrillic keyboard update to "libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml" there is also a need to update the missing line for the
Hebrew keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2):
- ReplaceString: {Offset: -56, Find: "ß\0", Replace: "ן"}here it is in the context of the file:
Hebrew keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2):
- Enabled: no
- PatchGroup: Keyboard alternatives
## Replaces keys on the Extended Latin keypad with Hebrew alternatives.
##
## Note that after the device boots, the keypad might just show blank squares
## until after the first book has been opened.
## Also note that long-pressing keys on the base keypad will no longer show
## the appropriate list of Extended Latin keys.
#
# Replace layout sign
- FindBaseAddressString: "ÉÀÇ"
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0, Find: "ÉÀÇ", Replace: "אב"}
# Change keyboard layout
- FindBaseAddressString: "ý\0\0ÿ\0\0š\0\0ž\0\0"
# Top row, left to right (10 keys):
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x00, Find: "ý\0", Replace: "/"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x04, Find: "ÿ\0", Replace: "'"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x08, Find: "š\0", Replace: "ק"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x0C, Find: "ž\0", Replace: "ר"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x10, Find: "æ\0", Replace: "א"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x14, Find: "œ\0", Replace: "ט"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x18, Find: "þ\0", Replace: "ו"}
**- ReplaceString: {Offset: -56, Find: "ß\0", Replace: "ן"}**
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x1C, Find: "ij\0", Replace: "ם"}
- ReplaceString: {Offset: 0x20, Find: "ŀ\0", Replace: "פ"}Semwize posted a new version for 4.18. MR:post-3897542
I asked whether he knew how to add the LibraH2O stuff. Answer is no.
v47:
v47)v48:
v48)
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