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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    Hello Just a quick message to encourage you. The latest version, 24.04, has been a huge leap forward for me on my Fairphone 4. It's really stable. I have been a Linux user since my adolescence. I know how to search and run command lines. I've installed Waydroid and a few apps with Libertine. Waydroid's freeze feature seems like a good temporary solution for limiting battery consumption. I don't know if it would be compatible with the permissions regime, but automating it when going to sleep or simplifying activation could be a plus. If I had two requests, they would be the lack of a working Firefox and Discord app on Libertine. (I haven't managed to get them working yet.) And also the possibility of simply changing the DNS settings (to remove add) Displaying desktop applications doesn't bother me. I've planned to use a dock. I also wonder why it wouldn't be possible to promote things like "appimages" for office applications in Ubuntu Touch (but maybe snaps are the same thing.) I send you my encouragement once again. It's truly good work.
  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 is live this Saturday 29th November at 19:00 UTC on our YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIcfYORt6P4 We will cover all the latest news and development, and your questions and answers. Questions can be posted live during the show or using this Forum link for priority: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11645/ubuntu-touch-q-a-179-call-for-questions. Please remember that questions on porting to device **** or its status, or questions on bugs will not be answered UBports@telegram #ubports:matrix.org #UBports #UbuntuTouch #UBportsQandA #Lomiri #OTA11 #UTnoble #Ubuntu
  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    To enter Fastboot, one has to pus Volume UP and hold it, then power on the device while pressing volume up until the bootmenu appears. UBports is buggy at this step IMO, but once you enter fastboot manually the flashing begins. Only after the tablet is in fastboot does UBports tell you how to activate it. So for anyone reading this in the future, download UBports, enable Developer mode on the tablet (Ubuntu Touch doesn't have OEM locking), connect, then when the tablet shuts down, boot into fastboot and it should continue.
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    Ok I wil try it. Thanks!
  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    @Vlad-Nirky said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad: it gives a pretty good overview. Interesting that my opinions about the installer were more or less reproduced. That's the missing point in the premise for most posts here: what's driving you mad in your use of UT presumes that one is using UT. That is, the installing part did succeed else one would not use UT. However there is a surviving bias here :-). Taking a second look on this problem, it is actually worse than I thought: there are 1900 unsolved issues about the installer on Github. It may point at many fire and forget issues, but that's also a janitoring problem: the installer is missing resources even for handling problem reports and that's because the experienced users are driving attention by being vocal about their problems on the forum or on Gitlab. The missing users are silent because they have tried UT and given up.
  • Discuss the user experience or design of Ubuntu Touch or its apps

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    woah, great work!
  • Creating Ubuntu Touch apps

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    @CiberSheep said in Script for updating apps [help needed]: with the default tool in the system, without an external tool what's the 'system' in fact ? python as installed in 24.04 has json (of course, it's part of the 'batteries') and yaml is packaged too. So if the system is a phone under noble it has everything needed for a conversion. If the job is done in a context where for some reason the yaml package is not present, there is always json. Having imported the json file a basic exporting 'by hand' should not be too difficult if one can afford to ignore handling the myriad of special cases that are certainly in the big yaml libraries. This assumes that UT clickable.json files are always valid json. If it can be false (comments springs to mind) a python solution will fail badly.
  • Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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    @linhmieu Here is the Port Development Guide. Read through that first, and ask specific questions as they come up.
  • Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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    Hello, I am currently running Ubuntu Unity 24.04 with Unity 7.7 desktop. I was wondering if it is possible to install Lomiri alongside to play around with it and switch between Unity 7.7 and Lomiri from the LightDM. I tried running Lomiri on Debian 13 but it did not work with multi-monitor in my case and so I cannot change to Lomiri as a primary desktop until this is repaired (as I see from the website, this is "under construction", per se). I love Unity and love to see the future of how this desktop develops as Lomiri formerly Unity 8. Thank you!!
  • Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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    @Vlad-Nirky Thank you. Done.
  • A place to discuss ideas for promoting Ubuntu Touch

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    @Jules We are aware of this and we are having a good look at it.
  • Other Projects

    Projects which are started by a group within the UBports community

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    could compile it installed it but when run direct on the smartphone it hang if login ssh -CY phablet@10.42.0.1 and run then, gut the GUI Dockerfile FROM ubuntu:24.04 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive # First, update and install basic tools RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ curl \ ca-certificates \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Configure repositories properly RUN rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources && \ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble main restricted universe multiverse" > /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "deb [arch=arm64] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ noble main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "deb [arch=arm64] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && \ echo "deb [arch=arm64] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list # Enable arm64 architecture RUN dpkg --add-architecture arm64 # Update and install dependencies RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ build-essential \ crossbuild-essential-arm64 \ git \ meson \ ninja-build \ pkg-config \ blueprint-compiler \ desktop-file-utils \ gobject-introspection \ libgirepository1.0-dev \ gir1.2-gtk-4.0 \ gir1.2-adw-1 \ gir1.2-gtksource-5 \ libglib2.0-bin \ libglib2.0-dev \ protobuf-compiler \ libglib2.0-dev:arm64 \ libgtk-4-dev:arm64 \ libadwaita-1-dev:arm64 \ libpango1.0-dev:arm64 \ libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev:arm64 \ libcairo2-dev:arm64 \ libgtksourceview-5-dev:arm64 \ gettext \ python3-pip \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Fix: Replace ARM64 glib-compile-schemas with wrapper to native version RUN if [ -f /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas ]; then \ mv /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas \ /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas.arm64 && \ echo '#!/bin/bash\nexec /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas "$@"' \ > /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas && \ chmod +x /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas; \ fi # Add this near the end of your Dockerfile, before WORKDIR RUN pip3 install --break-system-packages clickable-ut # Install Rust RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}" # Add aarch64 Rust target RUN rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu # Configure Cargo RUN mkdir -p /root/.cargo && \ echo '[target.aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu]' >> /root/.cargo/config.toml && \ echo 'linker = "aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc"' >> /root/.cargo/config.toml # Set pkg-config paths for Cargo ENV PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=/ ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH= ENV PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig ENV PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS=1 # CRITICAL: Force Cargo to build for aarch64 ENV CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu # Create simpler cargo wrapper RUN mv /root/.cargo/bin/cargo /root/.cargo/bin/cargo-real && \ cat > /root/.cargo/bin/cargo << 'EOFWRAPPER' #!/bin/bash case "$1" in build) if [[ "$*" != *"--target"* ]]; then /root/.cargo/bin/cargo-real "$@" --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu result=$? if [ $result -eq 0 ] && [ -n "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR" ] && [ -f "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/flare" ]; then mkdir -p "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/release" cp "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/flare" "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/release/flare" fi exit $result fi ;; esac exec /root/.cargo/bin/cargo-real "$@" EOFWRAPPER RUN chmod +x /root/.cargo/bin/cargo # Create pkg-config wrapper RUN echo '#!/bin/bash\n\ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\n\ export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig\n\ export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=/\n\ exec pkg-config "$@"' > /usr/local/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-pkg-config && \ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-pkg-config WORKDIR /build aarch64-cross.txt [binaries] c = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc' cpp = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-g++' ar = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-ar' strip = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-strip' pkg-config = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-pkg-config' rust = ['rustc', '--target', 'aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu'] [properties] sys_root = '/usr/aarch64-linux-gnu' [built-in options] pkg_config_path = '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig' [host_machine] system = 'linux' cpu_family = 'aarch64' cpu = 'aarch64' endian = 'little' [build_machine] system = 'linux' cpu_family = 'x86_64' cpu = 'x86_64' endian = 'little' docker build -t flare-builder . [docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/build flare-builder bash -c " # Install clickable in the container pip3 install clickable-ut # Build the click package cd /build clickable build --arch arm64 clickable click-build --arch arm64 " docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/build flare-builder bash -c " cd /build apt-get update && apt-get install -y click patchelf rm -rf click-package mkdir -p click-package/usr/bin mkdir -p click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu # Copy binary cp builddir/src/flare click-package/usr/bin/flare-bin chmod +x click-package/usr/bin/flare-bin # Explicitly copy ALL required GTK4/Libadwaita libraries echo 'Copying libraries explicitly...' # Copy each library with all its versions cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgtksourceview-5.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || echo 'libgtksourceview-5 not found' cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgtk-4.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || echo 'libgtk-4 not found' cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libadwaita-1.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || echo 'libadwaita-1 not found' cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgraphene-1.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || echo 'libgraphene not found' cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libfribidi.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true cp -v /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libepoxy.so.0* click-package/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null || true # Set RPATH patchelf --set-rpath '\$ORIGIN/../../lib/aarch64-linux-gnu' click-package/usr/bin/flare-bin # Create wrapper cat > click-package/usr/bin/flare << 'WRAPPER' #!/bin/bash SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)" APP_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$APP_ROOT/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=ubuntumirclient export MIR_SOCKET="${MIR_SOCKET:-/run/user/$(id -u)/mir_socket}" if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]; then export $(dbus-launch) fi exec "$SCRIPT_DIR/flare-bin" "$@" WRAPPER chmod +x click-package/usr/bin/flare # Copy icon find data -name '*Flare*.svg' -exec cp {} click-package/flare.svg \; -quit # Create desktop file cat > click-package/flare.desktop << 'DESKTOP' [Desktop Entry] Name=Flare Comment=Signal messaging client Exec=usr/bin/flare Icon=flare.svg Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Network;InstantMessaging; X-Ubuntu-Touch=true DESKTOP # Create manifest cat > click-package/manifest.json << 'MANIFEST' { "name": "flare.dennisschweiger", "title": "Flare", "version": "0.18.6", "maintainer": "Dennis Schweiger dennis@example.com", "architecture": "arm64", "description": "Signal messaging client", "framework": "ubuntu-sdk-20.04", "hooks": { "flare": { "apparmor": "flare.apparmor", "desktop": "flare.desktop" } } } MANIFEST # Create apparmor cat > click-package/flare.apparmor << 'APPARMOR' { "template": "unconfined", "policy_groups": [ "networking", "audio" ] } APPARMOR](link url) cd click-package ``` echo '' echo '=== Bundled libraries (first 30) ===' ls -lah lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ | head -30 echo '' echo 'Total library files:' ls -1 lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ | wc -l echo '' echo 'Verifying libgtksourceview-5:' ls -la lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgtksourceview* || echo 'NOT FOUND!' # Build click build . --no-validate mv *.click ../ cd .. echo '' echo '=== Package created ===' ls -lh *.click " sudo click unregister --user=phablet flare.dennisschweiger 2>/dev/null || true sudo click install --user=phablet --allow-unauthenticated /home/phablet/flare.dennisschweiger_0.18.6_arm64
  • For things that just don't fit in the other categories.

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    @jukebox3711 said in Is there anyone managing customer service?: But you can imagine that since then, I've bought another mouse pad. Of course. But you paid for one of ours, and so you should get it. I will arrange that. And sorry for your troubles!