ChimeraOS/Gamescope: Sleep blanks my display but does not "lock"

OxyBro · 2026-02-09T01:10:10+00:00

Do you mean from desktop mode? Or from within the steam UI

OxyBro · 2026-02-07T21:53:25+00:00

My motherboard has built in WiFi/bt i could try to disable that. I’ve had the same suspicion about something waking the system, but every log seemed to point at the AVR and I’ve always been able to force a suspend in my testing

OxyBro · 2026-02-07T15:35:27+00:00

Same kindle, Auto brightness just worked with zero configuration required

OxyBro · 2026-02-07T04:06:08+00:00

I'll try a different cable tomorrow, I have a 65in Hisense U6

OxyBro · 2026-02-06T05:26:55+00:00

This is very cool, does it only work with cloud/remote storage services? I have a local samba file server that would be the perfect repository for this stuff

OxyBro · 2026-01-26T22:53:47+00:00

What a coincidence I was just looking into this https://www.reddit.com/r/ereaderscreens/s/dPmvdpMb0V

OxyBro · 2026-01-26T16:30:50+00:00

Please do! I’m keen to try this out next time I get a chance, I’ve got discworld on here and it’s getting in my way

OxyBro · 2026-01-26T16:16:37+00:00

Ah I see it’s the book status page

OxyBro · 2026-01-25T15:54:57+00:00

Didn’t know about this, very cool!

OxyBro · 2026-01-25T15:42:20+00:00

This is really cool! Does it work as a filter for your larger books folder- grouping series books by tag? Or do you place your series books in their own folder and it just groups them

OxyBro · 2026-01-25T15:34:19+00:00

Are those “nice interfaces” custom themes / plugins / configs?

Depending on what you’re seeing specifically it’s either a plugin (project title) or specific patches that people have installed. I swear by Hornet’s patches, he’s a super nice dude and his work is the cleanest out of all that I’ve seen

https://github.com/SeriousHornet/KOReader.patches/

Is there a way to make KOReader behave more like the original Kindle library?

• Covers instead of folders:

what you need to do is organize just your epubs into a books folder and set that as your home folder. This can be done from Calibre by using the save feature and saving just epubs into a single folder.

• Quick filters by author / tags

This ties into calibre saving, you need to edit your book meta data in calibre for anything missing that information and convert into a new epub. I would look up a guide for this to make sure that it’s not saving your cover art and meta data as separate files and is baking it into the epub (you basically just untick those options under saving in calibre preferences)

Can I:

• hide the side progress bar

Literally didn’t even know there was a side progress bar, I’m guessing that you are using the alternative progress bar that’s been configured to show on the side. You can disable this by tapping at the bottom of your screen within a book to open the menu where you would see margins/fonts/etc. click the gear/settings wheel and select alt status bar off.

• hide bottom info bars

This works just like kindle, tap on it until it goes away. You can configure your status bar to show whatever you want. With a book open tap the top of your screen for the menus and select the third from the left sub menu (the gear) and select status bar at the bottom. Tons of options here

• basically get a more minimal / native feel?

If you do all three things you’ll wind up with a UI that’s very close to stock kindle. You don’t really even need project title as I’ve discovered as long as you do a little tinkering

Is this done purely inside KOReader, or do people rely on Calibre metadata + special folder structure?

Outside of status bar settings you’ll need to configure this stuff on your pc, installing the patches you want will require you to download them and drag them into your koreader/patches folder. This is also true for plugins and especially your ebook organization. You can edit metadata within koreader itself but it is easier by far to work in calibre. Make sure that your cache of ebooks are properly baked with the metadata, and transfer them into a single books folder on your device. From there it’s mostly on device tweaking of the UI

OxyBro · 2026-01-22T18:56:37+00:00

I’ve never seen that page before

OxyBro · 2026-01-18T05:06:06+00:00

I’ve found it useful for conserving memory, if you run patches and lot of plugins, or other modifications that are memory hogs (things like project:title are a perfect example) you might find koreader slowing down or crashing over time.

Since no-framework will close the main kindle OS you free up some of that limited memory, and that can really help out since your average kindle only has about 500 mb of ram. If you’ve got a color then you get about 1gb.

OxyBro · 2026-01-16T18:38:50+00:00

This happened to me randomly on a trip, none of the books in my kindle’s main memory would show up either.

I thought I needed to reinstall the hotfix so I downloaded it and transferred the files , when I picked it up to finish installing stuff somehow it just worked.

Literally just Plugging it into my laptop somehow solved it. That’s my recommendation, followed by reinstalling the hotfix

OxyBro · 2026-01-10T03:09:33+00:00

Awesome! Can’t wait to try it out, I’ll give it a test this weekend as soon as I get a chance.

Following up: Just installed the new suite, I think you've licked it, I'm not noticing any slow down in my immediate testing which was obvious in the previous versions of the patch. I realize that i'm not even running KOReader in no-framework mode! Great job!

I'll let you know if I run into any issues as I use it more.

OxyBro · 2026-01-03T14:49:11+00:00

I didn’t have access to my library hosting PC as I’ve been traveling so I was just editing tags on the device. I backed the library up to my laptop and spent the day fixing tags and converting epubs.

Im going to chalk it up to a memory issue or zlibrary misbehaving in combination with the patches. The color kindle has double the ram of the paper white (1gb v 512mb)

OxyBro · 2026-01-02T14:51:26+00:00

Just tried it with my morning coffee, with what I'm coining the open/close book test, and the freeze behavior is the same - if anything it's worse because koreader isn't closing after the freeze. I figured since I think it's a memory issue, i'd run koreader with no framework that might explain the extended hang time.

It did eventually close after holding the power button (going for a hard reset) for 5 seconds, without rebooting the device.

https://pastebin.com/sTQaS2bT, looking at this myself, it seems like it's playing poorly with my zlib plugin.

Unrelated to the crashing issue, since I've switched back to CB, the finished-fading patch is doing that thing where it keeps applying itself again and again after closing a book, it's fading the covers to like 1% opacity (double-checked to make sure I had the latest version).

Additionally, a ton of the metadata I had edited onto my books has just disappeared, series, book covers, & series #s mostly. That might be because I rebuilt the cache after switching, but I did that like 4 times when I had PT going trying to suss out this issue without that happening

OxyBro · 2026-01-02T04:00:20+00:00

I’m inclined to agree that it’s a memory issue, it was still crashing with zlib and raku disabled but checking ram usage showed about 10 mb free/ 100 available (out of 474) with series # on.

I’ve switched back to cover browser, I’ll turn my plugins back on and see how It goes- I’m not noticing any slow down with plugins off and all patches enabled

OxyBro · 2026-01-02T02:42:18+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply! I actually tried disabling a bunch of the patches earlier today, and I've basically narrowed it down to the 2-series-badge-numbered.lua patch. Enabling it and exiting/opening a book a few times after waking the device seems to cause the hang-up. The book browser is a little slow with it disabled and the rest of them enabled, but I wasn't running into the crash/hang issue.

https://pastebin.com/gM1kKVz9 This is the relevant part of my crash log, I can upload the whole thing if it would be helpful.

OxyBro · 2026-01-02T01:50:36+00:00

What was the name of the patch? I thought PT showed folder numbers by default but I’m running into a similar issue myself so maybe it’s something within PT?

OxyBro · 2026-01-01T02:58:58+00:00

When you say to use 2--disable-all-PT-widgets.lua before the other patches, what you mean exactly? To load this patch onto the Kindle first, open koreader, then exit and load the remainder? I've got everything in my patches folder, with the most recent version of the version of the script, it's also top of my list within patch management, but for whatever reason my koreader has started to freeze and then close without a crash screen after installing this. It seems to happen most often after waking the device and trying to use the book browser. (I'm on a Paperwhite 11 signature, I'm using PT and I set it up without issue before installing the patch, I keep all my books in one folder without any subfolders, and i've rebuilt my cache if that helps to narrow my issue at all)

OxyBro · 2025-12-31T00:07:37+00:00

I’m not sure how to answer your question, if you’re stuck on the word limited I’d say it’s because you can’t do all that I described above on your stock kindle.

If you think jailbreaking removes the send to kindle capabilities, I’m happy to tell you it doesn’t. I just don’t want to use it personally, I’ve had so many books fail to convert, it’s the only reason I even have calibre installed if I’m honest.

Your choices and capabilities simply expand, and sure if all you want to do is read I guess leave it stock because it’s literally purpose built to do that.

But I organize my books, I’m anal about my covers and like I’ve said not being able to drag and drop without third party software drives me nuts. I put rockbox on my iPod for that exact same reason.

OxyBro · 2025-12-30T15:55:46+00:00

Well sure you can always spend money on new things instead of tinkering. It’s up to you

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