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    • TotalSonic
      TotalSonic last edited by TotalSonic

      GIMP in Libertine

      Start with installing gimp package in your Libertine Container.
      Screenshot is GIMP running in Libertine Container using the Color 48 theme to make icons usable on a mobile device - https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gimp-scripts/raw/2e8e87faf5eaaf6036e0d8b68ff9f6f37a3f0421/themes/Color-48.7z

      In order to install this theme I had to extract the 7z archive on my computer and upload the folder to the phone. Then I had to go into home/phablet/cache/libertine-container/xenial/rootfs/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes rename the "Default" theme folder as "Old Default" - and then paste in the Color 48 theme folder renamed as "Default" (because trying to change the theme from Gimp's gui would just crash it)

      Also to get the GTK menus to be sized to be useable on phone it is important to: create a file named .Xdefaults in a text editor (tedit is a good Ubuntu Touch native one for this) with a single line Xft.dpi: 280 - or whatever other dpi value which you prefer. Save this to the home directory of your chroot environment - usually .local/share/libertine-container/user-data/xenial/ in your normal home directory.

      You also still need to use an external bluetooth keyboard for GIMP on the phone in order to have the gui respond.

      Best regards,
      Steve Berson

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        Giiba last edited by

        @TotalSonphone

        Wow, that's awesome. How well does it run on a phone?

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        • TotalSonic
          TotalSonic @Giiba last edited by

          @Giiba - it is a bit buggy running in Libertine currently - hopefully some of the improvements coming to Xmir in the next OTA's will help to fix this.

          Best regards,
          Steve Berson

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            zubozrout @TotalSonic last edited by

            @TotalSonic Unfortunately so far there are only additional issues with this:
            https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1192
            https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1193
            https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1194

            However, maybe with the new Mir we could have some of these apps compiled against Wayland and packaged as click packages. Unfortunately though so far I was unable to run such Wayland apps at all on edge. There is probably something I am missing required but until more people are using it I am hesitant to ask how to proceed with it.

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