Tips and Tricks
General
Linux
Automounting
Make sure you have properly installed and configured HAL, otherwise the auto-mounting of the PRS won't happen.
Launching calibre Automatically When the Device is Plugged-in
Under KDE you would need to install ivman. For a number of reasons, including security, best is to run ivman as user from ~/.kde/Autostart/ivman.
cd ~/.kde/Autostart && ln -s `which ivman` ivman
Make sure you edit the ~/.ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml to contain:
<ivm:Match name="hal.info.product" value="Sony Portable Reader System">
<ivm:Option name="exec" value="calibre" />
</ivm:Match>
Just after the change - you'll need to restart your window manager or just start ivman manually. On subsequent runs - it's all automatic.
Now - just plug-in the PRS-505 and Voila! - calibre pops open! Sit back and enjoy :)
Gentoo
rar files
.rar files won't get translated at this point, since rar/unrar are installed without the librar.so. This is a Gentoo issue, not a libprs500 bug.
Temporary work-around: repack the files into a .zip file, which works.
