@dobey said in How can a webapp run in sandbox when using Morph browser to display its content?:

It does not destroy the profile on exit, no. Why would you want such a behavior?

Just to prevent blowing up the webapp profile too much... As a pure reading app, in my eyes there is no need to store any data on the phone. Neither cookies nor anything else (e.g. accepted privacy confirmations).

Thanks a lot!

@dobey said in How can a webapp run in sandbox when using Morph browser to display its content?:

They are running instead in the "webapp-container" which is provided by Morph Browser, and which is run under confinement (thus sandboxed), with its own profile, in a separate directory from the main browser.

That means, the webapp does not reset its corresponding webapp-container to factory defaults (when closing the app)? Is it possible to force such a behavior?

I am wondering about why many people claim that Webapps can run in a sandbox, even if they use Morph Browser to display their content?

The reason for my question is that I recently have built a webapp for a website with Webapp Creator. When I opened the webapp for the first time, I had to confirm some data privacy hint of the website. When opening the webapp for the second time, this hint did not appear anymore.

Therefore I fear some cookie has been stored on my system, even if the webapp claims to run in a sandbox?

See title...

If so, how is it called?

Which file contains the configuration about which ringtone and message sound I have selected?

Probably a file somewhere in ~/.cache, ~/.config or ~/.local/share?

I want to write a small bash script which can be used to auto-configure all my Ubuntu Touch devices after resets to factory defaults. In this case I want to move the WiFi-passwords onto the devices, so that I do not have to type them in manually via keyboard all the time.

I thought it would be enough to just copy the file /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<wifi-name> from one device to another.

Unfortunately this is not sufficient, something seems to be missing. Do I need more files?

@custello said in How to download and install Apps from OpenStore via CLI?:

Funny fact: The index.html file has exactly 6.53 MB (what would be the same size as Dekko's .click package). Maybe wget just renamed the downloaded file as index.html?

Thanks to @Ingo's knowledge, this is partly true! wget will ignore the response headers, because this is an experimental feature at that time. Therefore wget uses a standard name for the downloaded file, and this one will be a classic index.html.

@dobey said in How to download and install Apps from OpenStore via CLI?:

The --allow-untrusted is required, because by simply downloading a click directly, you are missing the additional metadata, and are not verifying that what was downloaded, is trusted.

Okay, thanks a lot!

So the final (working) command should be:

• wget https://open-store.io/api/v3/apps/dekko2.dekkan/download/xenial/ -O /home/phablet/Downloads/dekko2.dekkan_armhf.click

Afterwards:

• pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted /home/phablet/Downloads/*.click

@doniks said in How to download and install Apps from OpenStore via CLI?:

@custello said in How to download and install Apps from OpenStore via CLI?:

Maybe something like...

looks ok. does it work?

• Let's assume I always want to downoad the newest version of respective .click-packages. Therefore I can not use the URL of a specific version, but have to use the overall URL to the package. Hereby I am not sure if this attempt could work with wget, because the following user prompt appears when opening the URL https://open-store.io/api/v3/apps/dekko2.dekkan/download/xenial/ in browser:

  

  It seems that opening the URL in browser will forward the user to the actual file. I am not sure if wget could handle that request correctly, because the URL does not refer to the file directly. I've tried it in terminal, hereby wget mistakenly downloaded the index.html-file instead of the desired .click-file. Funny fact: The index.html file has exactly 6.53 MB (what would be the same size as Dekko's .click package). Maybe wget just renamed the downloaded file as index.html?

• Do I need to use pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted or would it work without allow-antrusted as well?

I want to write a small bash script which can be used to auto-configure my Ubuntu Touch devices after resets to factory defaults.

Is there any option available to download and install newest versions of desired apps from OpenStore via command line interface (CLI)? For example, how to install Dekko 2 via CLI?

Maybe something like...

• wget https://open-store.io/api/v3/apps/dekko2.dekkan/download/xenial/dekko2_armhf.click
• pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted /Downloads/dekko2_armhf.click

Dan Chapman said:

• ~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject
• ~/.local/share/dekko2.dekkoproject

Is this attempt of creating backups still valid for Dekko 2 on Ubuntu Touch 16.04 as well?

Or do I need to backup additional folders since using 16.04?

Finally it is working! Thank you very much for your awesome help guys!

What I did?

• Resetted the whole Ubuntu Touch device to factory defaults
  (probably some Dekko fragments of UT 15.04 have been hanging around)
• Installed a virgin Dekko from OpenStore
• Setup all user profiles one after each other

Finally the wizard also displayed the magic page where one can specify server settings by hand. This page has never appeared before...

Furthermore, I see the message "Your acount has been set up successfully" or something similar after completion - that also did never happen before...

Thanks a lot for your kind help!

@lakotaubp said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

@custello This does sometimes happen. My google set up straight away. TalkTalk same as you. Now the account is there you an check the details and edit away if needed.

In following I am talking about the account with successfull auto-configuration:

Yeah, the account has been added, but I can not use it. It is neither possible to send emails nor receive them. If I try to send emails they are always "queued" in "Outbox" but do not move into "Sent". Furthermore, received emails do not appear in "Inbox", even if I've heard the ring sound and saw the notification that they have arrived.

My emails inbox is completely empty.

If I click on a listed email in "Outbox", Dekko will crash.

Confusion:

Beside of dekko2.dekkoproject there is a directory dekko2.dekkan created - what is this?

Thanks a lot for your answer!

@doniks said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

enter name, desc, email, pwd - note my actual email account would auto detect, so i deliberately enter a wrong email and password

I've tried your attempt with data of a working account (with previously successfull auto-detection). Hereby I entered a wrong password: Now the wizard passes the step "Searching for configuration." but gets stuck at "Validating credentials." No page to fill in custom settings will appear...

Now I've tried to start at zero:

• Removed all Dekko-directories (./cache, /.local/share and /.config)
• Started Dekko
• Tried to an add account with wizard (with wrong password)
• Again: The wizard will stuck at "Validating credentials."
• However, after waiting a very long time (~ 5 minutes, wizard still stucking) I closed the wizard window
• The account was added to accounts list, but with the wrong password

In summary:

• Maybe something is wrong with my Dekko?
• Or is it common that I have to wait so long?
• The custom settings page has still never appeared for me.
• Emails will be received after correction of the password (heard the sound), but they are not displayed within Dekko.

Thanks for your answer!

@guru said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

My mailaddr is guru@unixarea.de, and my SMTP server differs too, it is smtp.1blu.de, and for IMAP it's imap.1blu.de, this works all fine w/ Dekko2.

That sounds pretty nice! But how could you configure your custom server settings? In my case the wizard will neither finish nor add an account if it can not detect the necessary server settings... So I can not configure an account by hand, because it won't be created at all if the wizard fails.

For me, the wizard never provided the option to custom configure my server settings when it was not able to find the settings by himself.

Thanks a lot for your kind answers!

@hummlbach said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

@Custello [...] I guess the account wizard comes up for you(?) and normally it tries to fill out the settings for you [...].

Exactly, that's completely right! I get stucked at the moment when the account wizard does not know which information it has to fill in. In these cases the wizard will display the "waiting" symbol for infinite time.

@hummlbach said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

@Custello [...] But if dekko does not know how it gives you the possibility to enter them manually actually.

Sure? That would be awesome!

@hummlbach said in Dekko 2 Email-App: How to add Mail Account with custom Server Settings?:

@Custello [...] But if dekko does not know how it gives you the possibility to enter them manually actually.
Doesn't you get through to that screen?

Not at all - I did not even know that the wizard could provide such an option for manual insertion of desired configurations. In my case the wizard always stucks at the step "Searching for configuration" - I will try again with your recommended approach of adding further accounts...

I have unsuccessfully tried to add a mail account to Dekko 2 with custom server settings. That means:

The mail account to be inserted looks like user@domain.de, but the belonging mailserver has a divergent address like mailserver.domain.de.

Unfortunately Dekko's account wizard can only handle mail providers where its internal "Searching for configuration" process finishes successfully. Only in these cases the wizard will "Validate credentials" and add the account to Dekko's account list at all.

However, in some cases the server settings have to be edited manually by hand to reach the server (as seen in the example above). There Dekko won't be able to detect the required server configuration by himself, so it is necessary to edit them by hand.

Now there is the problem:

Dekkos account wizard won't add mail accounts if it can not find belonging server information. To outsmart Dekko I have tried to reregister a further mail account with identical data of a already added (working) account, but with a different account name. Afterwards I edited the server settings of this account. First it looked like this approach is working fine, but new emails do not appear in belonging folders and it's impossible to send emails as well.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve that issue? How can I add a mail account with custom server settings to Dekko 2?

Thanks a lot for your help!

@3arn0wl "To improve privacy, I'd like the option of using the Tor network."

Running Tor on Ubuntu Touch devices would be a great feature for sure! On all of my desktop computers I'm using Tor as my standard browser since three or four years now. Nowadays and in times of unlimited tracking run by companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc. there is not any reason anymore to not use Tor as a daily driver.

This is working great indeed! Thank you very much for your kind help @DanChapman !

I start enjoying Dekko2...

Hello together,

to improve privacy I want to enable private browsing mode as (standard) default mode.

Where can I adjust this configuration?

Thank you very much!

With best regards!
Custello

Hello together,

is there any option to backup user profiles from Dekko 2 in Ubuntu Touch 15.04? Which directory do I have to backup to avoid annoying manually rebuilding of user profiles when reinstalling UBports?

For example, on common Linux-systems you can easily backup the directory /home/user/.thunderbird to store your data. After reinstalling your operating system you just replace the pre-existing directory with your preconfigured directory. Is something like that possible for Dekko 2 as well?

Thanks a lot for your help!

With best regards!
Custello

@DanChapman: Thank you very much for this great app!