UBPorts Promotion - with PostgreSQL, Convergence and more!
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@pe3noATo2DOTpl Based on a quick search, that device don't support wired external display so that kinds of breaks all your plans
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@kugiigi Concerning convergence, I can say that there are no issues with the mouse if you use an external display over USB-C (with is supported by the Fairphone 4). I tried to use my phone as a computer a few times and I can say that this is an awesome experience. It worked the whole day but some icons dissapear if you switch back to the smartphone display. So yes - it is broken in a few ways but it's already quite useable.
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@pe3noATo2DOTpl said in UBPorts Promotion - with PostgreSQL, Convergence and more!:
Note 9 Pro Max 8GB/128
I can't help you with the technical stuff ..
.. but If you want to make a video and need a banner, I made some "design files" for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 with Ubuntu touch you can find it here:
https://gitlab.com/design3680819/ut-hw-models/-/tree/main/Phones/Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro?ref_type=heads
this link contains one example and the original files in gimp format -
@Schlicki2808 You didn't have an issue with mouse scrolling? That's currently broken and annoying but I guess you can still use it without that
And yeah, another broken thing is that the Launcher usually gets messed up when connecting/disconnecting an external display. -
@kugiigi Yes, the mouse wheel doesn't work in all situations but I can deal with it
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Dear @kugiigi, @Schlicki2808 and @Lga - thank you for the information
10). Dear @kugiigi, it's not fully breaking my plans.
If the connection to monitor/tv via USBC/HDMI cable from the Note 9 Pro Max will not work (or will be extremely problematic) then I would also accept the WiFi Monitor Connection - would you be able to share the knowledge, how to configure the Monitor+Mouse+Keyboard in a WireLess fashion, please? 11). Dear @kugiigi, I strongly want to promote UBPorts, so I'll learn the workarounds and try to avoid "traps". Would you be so kind to share more details/links/films about these "quite broken desktop use, with the mouse issues", to let me better feel the challenge scale, please?
12). Dear @Schlicki2808, I can apply the workaround to avoid switching back to smartphone's display, in order not to lose the icons and after the presentation I simply shut down the phone. One more question though: I have the Note 9 Pro Max (and not Fairphone 4). Do you think that this Awesome Experience, using external display over USBC will work with my phone too or maybe it can fail, like @kugiigi has mentioned so maybe the only option for me is the WireLess one ... ?
13). Dear @Schlicki2808, just to double check the "it is broken in a few ways but it's already quite usable" - did you mean that if I don't switch back to smartphone's screen then the desktop issues will not occur at all and the desktop use experience will be fully correct - please explain/describe in detail
14). Dear @Lga - thank you so much for the Beautiful Note 9 Pro Photos
15). Dear @kugiigi, are the mouse problems related to scrolling only or you mean that additional problems with the mouse use occurred on your side - please specify if so? Do they only occur when switching back to phone's screen or also in other cases/randomly? How about the Launcher Problems? You mentioned that it occurred during both: Connecting/Disconnecting of the external display. As I mentioned above, I will keep the external monitor during the presentation all the time (without switching back to smartphone's screen) and when finished, I will shut down the system. But I cannot avoid connecting the external monitor and you wrote that the Launcher usually gets messed also when connecting the external monitor - does it really happen? How often if so?
16). Dear @Schlicki2808 - thank you that you clearly confirmed that the mouse wheel does not work at all - I can also deal without it, by using the pageDown/Up, CTRL+Home/End and arrow keys or by holding the scrollbar with the mouse pointer, in order to scroll the pages
Just to double check - do I correctly understand that the mouse wheel does not work also for a WireLess keyboard or only for the Wired one?17). Dear UBPorts Friends, does that make sense trying to test the DisplayLink Hubs with my Note 9 Pro Max UBPorts Phone? That was suggested by one of the Sellers whom I asked that I want to buy a USBC Hub for my 9 Pro Max and they answered: "Redmi Phones do not support the standard methods of transmitting video to external monitors via cables. I recommend checking hubs using the displaylink technology". Do you think it would make sense to test e.g.: the "Universal Dock G2 120W HSN-IX02 USB-C DisplayLink" or maybe you have tested any other USBC DisplayLink Hub and you would share your experience, please?
I wish you All the Best, thanks in advance for your advice and kind regards ~~ Piotrek~~pe3no
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@pe3noATo2DOTpl The mouse problems I'm aware of are the scrolling issue in external displays ,where you can't use the mouse wheel to scroll most of the time, and the limited mouse movement when rotated in specific orientations when in the builtin screen.
As for the Launcher, it doesn't happen all the time but it does happen quite often. Usually, the pinned apps aren't shown anymore or at least some are missing. Sometimes, the icons are all over the place overlapping each other and having random empty spaces. BTW, when this happens and you pin an app or any modification to the Launcher, you will lose your original config even when yoh disconnect the external display.
There are other issues when connecting to an external display such as the following:
- Switching to the external display takes time and sometimes even crashing Lomiri and restarting it
- Some apps crash when connecting an external display. This happens in all apps with a webview so all browsers and webapps
- Disconnecting from the external display may take time too and also crash Lomiri.
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For postgresql try installing docker, it will do the trick i guess
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Dear @kugiigi and @bearbobs - thank you for the information
21). Dear @kugiigi thank you for the details about the mouse problems, and I will try to completely avoid scrolling with the mouse wheel, and instead of it I'll use the keyboard combinations and the windows slider with the mouse pointer
22). Dear @kugiigi - so for the Launcher problems, as the workaround I would avoid to pin any application and I hope that I shouldn't fall in any trap here
23). Dear @kugiigi - when talking about switching to the external display... I need to do it only one time so I can wait until it's connected. The Lomiri crashing sounds bad... do these problems occur also (how often) when you connect via cable for the first time or only when switching back and forth between the screens of the phone and the external one?
24). Well, that's another Hint, Dear @kugiigi - that I must completely avoid any WebApplication or even every web browsing when I attach the external Display via cable - thank you! Disconnecting I try to avoid in such a way that when finished, l will shut down the phone simply.
25). Dear @kugiigi - do I correctly understand that all these problems which you described are related only to the situation when we try to connect the external monitor/keyboard/mouse via cable? Or do they also occur in the WireLess fashion?
26). If the WireLess would not give problems, would you be so kind to share how to setup the connection of the three components to the phone, please?
I mean how to connect the Monitor/TV + keyboard + mouse in the WireLess option?27). Dear @bearbobs - thank you for the Hint with the PostgreSQL@Docker Option
Would you be so kind to describe it in detail how to setup that, please? 28). Dear All UBPorts Friends, do you think it would be possible to install the DisplayLink Driver/Hub, using this howto?
https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/1944022-how-to-install-displaylink-software-on-ubuntu-20-0I wish you All the Best, thanks in advance for your advice and kind regards ~~ Piotrek~~pe3no
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@pe3noATo2DOTpl They still happen even if you use wireless display since that's basically the same, just wireless. And that isn't ideal anyway since input lag is very high.
