Problems working with libertine and snaps

derbaertigefrytz

Re: Fairphone 5 - 24.04-1.0
Hello all. just trying to start over with UT.
I created a libertine container and installed several graphical apps like libreoffice, abiword, gnumeric.
While abiword and gnumeric start using a very small font size which renders them useless, the libreoffice components just try to start and stop immediately.
I connected with adb shell and started libreoffice there, to see errors, if any. There was none. I used "lomiri-app-launch noble_libreoffice-writer_0.0"

I tried to use the libertine tweak tool, entered the correct container ID and set the Xdpi scaling to different values. This neither had effect to abiword or gnumeric, nor did it help to start libreoffice.

This was the moment I tried to use native snap support. I installed vivaldi and it started with unusable small fonts as well. Neither the UI tweak tool, nor the libertine tweak tool seem to be helpful in this case.
I installed firefox, and it started. However it is just an unusable, transparent shadow in the list of active apps.

My UT is 24.04 stable, with german language settings

So what am I missing?
Frytz

johndoe

@derbaertigefrytz I do not think, that you are missing anything. Libertine and Snaps do not work great for many graphical programs right now (this will probably improve in the future with changes to the desktop environment and underlying software). They are maybe more useful for terminal programs right now. You can often improve things by tinkering around a little bit, but it is certainly not ideal.

For a FireFox like browser, you could check out uWolf in the OpenStore.

derbaertigefrytz

Well thanks a lot for you fast reply.
I think, I took the wrong approach. I use Ubuntu since dapper and the name Ubuntu Touch misleaded me in the way, that I thought, those well known desktop apps should be my first choice.
When I did not find them in Openstore, I did not look for alternatives but for the "original" in Libertine and Snap.

I am pretty sure, I will be happy with mostly Openstore Apps.

Thank you frytz

kugiigi

The main thing here is that Ubuntu Touch doesn't have the latest and greatest support for Wayland/XWayland. This is needed so you can run traditional desktop apps. It will come in the future and there are already works on it on the desktop side of things.
However, even with that, we can't expect for these desktop apps to magically work well on small screens with touch input.
As mentioned, uWolf is in the OpenStore which is Librewolf but made to work better on phones. It still has some quirks though, caused by the same thing I mentioned earlier. It has no clipboard support and the performance isn't as good as the native browser.