Step 8: Set up Dillo
Tap the menu button, and select Net -> Dillo from the menu that pops up. From this point onwards you will need patience, many GUI processes take quite a while running on the slow Psion processor.
Dillo is just a lightweight web browser, so can be used like any otther (type an address in the address bar, click on links to activate etc.). To be useful on the Psion screen, however, it requires a few tweaks.the V menu and select "Options...". This will take around 30 seconds to load, with little indication that it is happening other than the CPU graph, but you will eventually reach an options screen. Tap the "Font" tab and set the font factor to around 1.4 depending on how large you want text to be (2 gives very large, clear text, 1.2 gives smaller text but allows more to fit on screen).
If you can handle another lengthy-ish wait, tap the Color tab and the Link color block. After another pause you will see a color selection screen- I suggest setting the value slider to a low value to make links more visible on the LCD.
Finally, under the Network tab you will find the start page and home page addresses- I suggest setting both of these to the path of the index page of your Wikipedia dump, as it will appear on the psion's file system, prefixed with file:// because it is not a web address (For example file://usr/index.htm)
Once you are happy with the settings, click the Save button, quit Dillo and restart it from the menu. It should start up to your Wikipedia dump index page.
Dillo is just a lightweight web browser, so can be used like any otther (type an address in the address bar, click on links to activate etc.). To be useful on the Psion screen, however, it requires a few tweaks.the V menu and select "Options...". This will take around 30 seconds to load, with little indication that it is happening other than the CPU graph, but you will eventually reach an options screen. Tap the "Font" tab and set the font factor to around 1.4 depending on how large you want text to be (2 gives very large, clear text, 1.2 gives smaller text but allows more to fit on screen).
If you can handle another lengthy-ish wait, tap the Color tab and the Link color block. After another pause you will see a color selection screen- I suggest setting the value slider to a low value to make links more visible on the LCD.
Finally, under the Network tab you will find the start page and home page addresses- I suggest setting both of these to the path of the index page of your Wikipedia dump, as it will appear on the psion's file system, prefixed with file:// because it is not a web address (For example file://usr/index.htm)
Once you are happy with the settings, click the Save button, quit Dillo and restart it from the menu. It should start up to your Wikipedia dump index page.
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