@arubislander I describe in broad outline ...

relative to vps/vpn (which allows you to have an ip reachable) it is set to redirect the requests received on port 88 to a specific vpn client (my xiaomi) and vice versa (there are 2 iptables rules)

regarding the auto start of nginx, in upstart :

description "Libertine - start nginx" start on started unity8 exec /home/phablet/.aa_myscripts/nginx.sh

nginx.sh :

#!/bin/sh sleep 3 ; sudo chroot /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/mylinux/rootfs /bin/bash -c "./startup.sh"

in libertine root : startup.sh

#!/bin/sh service nginx start

one more thing, due to dns changes I've made I could no longer install any program (from gui or libertine-container-manager) so i used chroot, I have reset dns, installed and configured nginx without any particular problems ... do you have more specific questions ?

@immortalchanger no, I meant not through terminal

@peter-gamma,
Yes, LibreOffice is a gui application. At the moment these applications do not work on PinePhone.

@pulsar33 said in Libertine Tweak Tool:

However, my understanding described above is not exactly the same as @dobey

I'm not sure if you're referring to the sole comment under the report about portrait width, but it was not my observation. The issue was imported from GitHub, and the comment starts off stating the GitHub username which made the comment originally. 🙂

@doniks snapshots are done and commented.
I have now to explain with some words. Trying to do that tomorrow
BR
Pulsar33

Thanks. It's a work in progress. 🙂

@jojumaxx
I link @dobey post so that's clearer.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7572/problem-with-sudo-is-my-system-broken/2?_=1647646805260

@lakotaubp Make that decision. In fact, Kodi is better than any Ubuntu Touch media player in the base install. Then they put that posting in the Mediaplayer or Libertine section. Definitely the best solution for me, although it could still be improved.

ssh to localhost. Because of containerization, will not work from regular shell.

If you get errors involving apt, do a "sudo mount -o rw,remount /"
from your non-ssh terminal.

If you can't ssh to local host, do a purge and reinstall open-ssh from your non-ssh terminal. don't forget to start ssh service, but this should happen automatically anyway

You will be able to create a libertine container. But the applications installed probably still won't work. They don't on the pinephone.

Finally, change your update channel to dev. There are 800 later builds than on the stable channel.

@danval Indeed, as you have already experienced, Ubuntu Touch in general, and Libertine in particular, does not facilitate running background services.

That having been said, I am very intrigued with your setup. Do the several services you installed in Libertine run well when you start them manually?

@pulsar33 said in Running desktop applications on UBTouch:

@dobey how to "work in team" and how to "learn the fundamentals" of UBports layers

@dobey : any clues ?
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Pulsat33

@totalsonic said in Any way to run desktop apps?:

does not work in Libertine, but Abiword and Gnumeric do.
Best regards,

Oh. Thank you for the answer. I will try this later!

@applee Fine solution !
Pulsar33

@luksus said in Libertine > OK ... NOK ? FP3+:

Make sure that your device does not go to sleep, while installing a new container.

Hi @Luksus ,
Thank's to you as usual and your excellent ideas, It's now OK !
I tried yesterday after many many others try to install Debian paquets watching my phone no falling asleep and it's perfect.

Now Libertine is OK on my FP3+

@moem this picture was for @Lakotaubp because not possible to send in private, it seems
Yes he has (well) done the job 👍

@pulsar33 Yes, wireshark is not designed to be run from an unprivileged container, as it requires a user in privileged group, and has a setuid binary. Therefore you should not try to run it in a libertine container, as it will not work properly.

I've been facing the same problems and was about to create an issue (but I've no time this week-end). Don't worry, you can install applications, but the name and the password that you give to create the container seem useless.

If you have a container in the GUI, delete it to be sure there was no problem when you closed the screen. Swipe the name of the container to the right and hit the "trashcan". When you see "Get started" create a new container and let it do its job. To see what's happening, swipe the container name to the left and hit "information" then "view" if necessary and go down to see the log. Wait until completion ...!

Once it's over, the GUI shows the name that you proposed but you have now a clean container named "xenial". Install for example gnome-system-monitor (good tool to see what's happening on you phone). Hit the spinning wheel to see the log as above and wait until completion ...!

Enjoy
Pulsar33

See it working in this subject for example

@dobey Well, I'm currently discovering the Libertine usage and trying to compile, test, modify (if needed for convergence) some source code of my own. These source codes are on my Desktop PC running Linux MINT 19.3, in a Folder called Workbench and containing many sub-folders (one for each application that I developed and some for general functions reused by many of my applications). I use the Eclipse IDE to compile and debug all that since years ...
It was simplest for me to copy some folders needed for CheckLog in the Documents folder and compile in place, then test. I'm not in the process of developing published code and I'm not used to create deb files.

That said, if Libertine is a Desktop-like environnement, I don't see why there should be specific location to install excutable, icons and data. A sub-folder anywhere should work as well, no ?

@dobey said : I'm not clear on what you mean by that, or what error you got,

Since the beginning of this thread, I successively tried to launch my own GUI App (already validated on MINT) in its own window (not in the LXTerminal) and then create a launcher to be able to launch it from outside Libertine as every normal application. This means with an icon displayed in the drawer, a temporary splash-view displaying the Icon and the name of the application, then the application itself in its own window (in Windowed mode or Staged mode).

I explained each step of what I discovered and list any unsolved questions, and fortunately any solution I found. At this time, there are some "strange" things for which I don't know if they are bugs or not. @dobey you suggested me to post an issue about the BT Keyboard for Libertine, so you are involved in this development. Maybe you can advise me about these points :

libertine-container-manager exec and libertine-launch can't be used in a .desktop file located on the UBports side to launch a GUI App in Libertine. In the same way, these commands can't be used in the UBPorts Terminal. There are "chroot" or "DISPLAY" errors. Is this a bug ?

On the opposite, the command "ubuntu-app-launch xenial_checklog_0.0" works but is not described in the Libertine Documentation (AFAIK).

The issue 194 still open says libertine gui apps cannot run. This is not true (anymore if it was). Should it be closed ?

When a desktop file is located in /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/xenial/rootfs/usr/share/applications/ and in /userdata/user-data/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/xenial/rootfs/usr/share/applications/ the launcher appearing in the drawer can start a GUI App located in some arbitrary sub-folder of ~/Documents but the icon located in the same sub-folder is not displayed, neither in the drawer, nor in the splash-view during the application loading time. Is this a bug ?

Thank you for your opinion and suggestions
BR
Pulsar33