@shano said in Why is Wayland compositor and Lomiri so far in terms of functionality compared to Compiz and Unity7 released some 20 years ago?: rather excluding large parts of it. well, that's a reproach that has been aimed at Microsoft (Windows and Apple (Liquid interface). When you go from a keyboard/mouse interface to something that can only be driven by fingers, you are most likely having to lose some functionality. The hand is a marvelous tool, but to manage a computer it's not always the most efficient. It's not for nothing that voice control has been added more often to phones than traditional computers. Yet clearly for the newer generations the classic computers are almost a curiosity from older times, the phone has won, warts and all.

Got it working here is the useful issue - https://github.com/ubports/ubports-pdk/issues/40 Now I can do ubports-clone lomiri and start it as a DE.

@developerbayman Sorry, QML of what?

@RJDan Not in UT, no.

As kugiigi says, Ubuntu Touch is using an obsolete version of Mir (1.8) with dated Wayland support. Also, most of the Wayland support in Lomiri comes from Mir (the rest comes from Mir's support for "custom" Wayland extensions). The consequence of that is that there's no much prospect of improving the Wayland support in Ubuntu Touch without first updating it to use the current version of Mir. The good news is that is work currently going on to get Lomiri working with the current version (2.20) of Mir. As of today this works on the machines of the developers involved and is close to landing in both the Debian and Fedora archives. However, it will still take significant time to get the rest of Ubuntu Touch migrated over to this newer stack. That is probably the task that can most benefit from help at present. After all that is completed, it should be possible for Ubuntu Touch to track the current version of Mir, and Wayland support will follow Mir. It is also possible to contribute to Mir's Wayland support, but that won't help Ubuntu Touch at present.

@Keneda Thanks for the reply and will look at it.

@shishimaru Lomiri runs on Mir as its Wayland compositor. Xephyr as I understand it is an X server. I doubt you can get Lomiri run on it. I'm sure it's technically possible but not easy. XWayland won't help since it's for running X apps on Wayland and not the other way around

@arudy for OSK after installing lomiri before reboot.Install dpkg-dev." sudo apt install dpkg-dev".After running this, Reboot the system.

@Beta-Break i tried lomiri on a desktop, using the ubuntu desktop iso provided by ubuntu unity with their latest release, both lomiri and unity seemed comparable, but i thought it best to ask since i am not very familiar with either

As of 4/25, you can now try Lomiri with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on Ubuntu Unity They have testing iso for Ubuntu Lomiri 24.04 LTS and comes with installer. I'm now switch my Surface Go 3 tablet from Debian Sid to Ubuntu Lomiri 24.04 LTS

In case somebody arrives here with not changeable scaling issues, I want to add another solution: If you have the file ~/.config/systemd/user/lomiri-full-greeter.service.d/override.conf, it may look like this: [Service] ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd GRID_UNIT_PX=21 It overrides the deviceinfo value of GRID_UNIT_PX. You could remove the override or adjust it to your needs.

shell-add-wayland-extension=zwp_primary_selection_device_manager_v1 # it isn't obvious why maliit-keyboard needs this It seems this is necessary due to QtWayland requiring it. However, this commit suggests this may no longer be the case in 6.6.0. I don't know if it's been pulled into the KDE patch collection for 5.15 though. Now we just need to get Lomiri fully onto Mir 2.x and Qt 5.15 so we can add the capability to ship the OSK in a confined click.

@kugiigi Thanks! Worked out fine!

Iv been off UT for a day or so messing with my orange pi but i think im gonna try installing plasma mobile .....https://plasma-mobile.org/ would be sweet if it worked on top of UT

@kugiigi dont know if its share internet or not, ubuntu jammy not showing what bluetooth connected activated features, the bluetooth preferences is not available could it be considered a phone line or modem by ofono?