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    • RE: [Break Your UT] Bigger and better Lomiri and Keyboard???

      I was thinking a custom keyboard with macros could build on Malakiboard. I've cloned jerk-click, jerk-installer and jerk-packages in the hope of PRing some day.

      For now, thank you for making it easy for everyone to install these 'hacks' which I believe should and could become a part of UT! 🎉

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    • RE: Dual external monitor

      @kugiigi Thanks for posting your experience, did you post / find an issue on gitlab regarding it? I am interested in Ubuntu Touch development, so if I get the chance I'd like to work on that, because if something like that worked it would allow portable convergence, which is what I'm after.

      posted in Fairphone 5
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    • RE: What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?

      @Opolork The draft email method is quite clever and I would use it if it worked on my gmail, but unfortunately it doesn't.

      The sync is not instant, but it works eventually: perfect while I'm transitioning to UT!

      posted in Support
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    • RE: Working VoLTE reports, share your experience

      Never mind, it seemed to have been a temporary issue thankfully, hopefully it won't bother anyone!

      The experience I had from it and a possible 'solution' (if that's a reasonable term for it) can be found here: https://forums.ubports.com/post/91229

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    Latest posts made by GooglyBear

    • RE: Backup and restore (TWRP-style)

      @Vlad-Nirky What phone and version did you try it on? On Fairphone 5 24.04-1.1 I can't get the SD to appear.

      Interestingly enough, when I have an SD card insertd on my phone and I run dmesg | grep ciborium I repeatedly get udisks2.go:322: Issues while processing /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/loop6: interface org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block not found, while when I don't have it inserted the output is empty.

      I can read/write to a USB I had though: I hopped onto my Pi 5 running Ubuntu 24.04 and ran these commands:

      sudo umount /dev/sda
      sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
      

      This formatted the drive to ext4, and with an adapter the drive was recognised.

      This is what it looks like on the GUI (the very bottom icon is the USB drive, which wouldn't show up if it weren't correctly connected (ie. in such a way to make read/write operations possible):

      photo_2025-12-17 10.29.42.jpeg

      After performing the same formatting process on an SD card and using an external adapter, it also allowed read/write operations.

      I also formatted another SD to FAT format, so UT can handle a variety of formats (probably ExFAT as well for example): it wasn't reading it before, but my other devices weren't either, so it ended up being a problem with the SD (fixable with reformatting in this case) rather than the phone.

      It also works with my Samsung T7 SSD, without any need for sudo there for whatever reason.

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    • RE: Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1

      @Charly I can only see SD cards connected via USB, not in the internal reader

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    • RE: Welcome to UBports International!

      @flohack How do we apply to become moderators in our native language?

      posted in UBports International
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    • RE: No internet connection since update to 24.04-1.1 on FP4

      Still working fine 🙂

      More info here: https://forums.ubports.com/post/91464

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    • RE: Working VoLTE reports, share your experience

      Voxi also works

      posted in General
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    • RE: What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?

      said in What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?:

      emacs

      While all packages should work just fine inside of Libertine, the main issue is making the desktop tools usable on the phone.

      Libertine Tweak Tool was good for resizing text on the app to a comfortably readable font on a phone screen, only thing missing now is modifier keys on the software keyboard, and a way to force the keyboard to appear inside of emacs for me: this is because the 'touch-to-click' compatibility system isn't always the most reliable, and a program like emacs is of course macro-heavy.

      My biggest way around the Desktop / Mobile syncing problem actually comes down to avoiding it as much as possible, by having my phone do (almost) everything, as syncing takes time while HDMI output to an external display is instant 🙂

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    • RE: [Break Your UT] Bigger and better Lomiri and Keyboard???

      I was thinking a custom keyboard with macros could build on Malakiboard. I've cloned jerk-click, jerk-installer and jerk-packages in the hope of PRing some day.

      For now, thank you for making it easy for everyone to install these 'hacks' which I believe should and could become a part of UT! 🎉

      posted in General
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    • RE: Keyboard: Text Expansion & Chorded Keyboard (Including Modifiers) Support?

      @mirroronthewall Yes, this is surprisingly useful, as it means you don't always have to whip out a hardware keyboard, which defeats the point of the small form factor of a phone.

      Missing support for modifier keys is a big issue when using GUI apps in Libertine, as touch-to-mouse conversion often doesn't behave as it should and can get you 'stuck', so a fallback to keyboard shortcuts is just as necessary there as it may be useful in general: actually, your idea of creating macros for anything seems to solve many problems (including mine) at once, so congrats 🙂 - now we just need to figure out how!

      The closest I've found is Ambot Installer: Hacks and Mods, although I need to set up a persistent amd64 QEMU instance on my arm64 laptop before I can allow myself to experiment with it freely (it's the only way I got the installer working). Other tools may be available but I have not been able to surface them yet, I will update this thread as I learn more about the issue and potential solutions.

      [UPDATE]

      Here is a list of interesting posts related to this problem, which may be a good starting point for building a bridge towards the solution: These are previous conversations on the repos which appear to have been abbandoned:

      • https://github.com/ubports/keyboard-component/issues/96
        • gitlab.com/ubports/apps/terminal-app/-/issues/78
        • https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-keyboard/-/issues/96

      Instead, here are some useful links related to Malakiboard, which should be a good foundation to build macro functionality on:

      • https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-click
      • https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-installer
      • https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-packages
      posted in Design
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    • RE: What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?

      @Opolork The draft email method is quite clever and I would use it if it worked on my gmail, but unfortunately it doesn't.

      The sync is not instant, but it works eventually: perfect while I'm transitioning to UT!

      posted in Support
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    • RE: What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?

      @wgarcia Yes, on 24.04-1.1 on Fairphone 5 the button to connect to Evernote does not do anything. Do you have any tips on setting up sync with NextCloud, such as any resources which were useful to you in the process? It could greatly benefit others on the forums (including me 😉 )

      posted in Support
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