@ChromiumOS-Guy Thanks, extensions are accessible now. Form filling from the browser's saved passwords doesn't work, I guess it's because of copy&paste not working? But the bitwarden extension can fill form fields so it's good enough for me.

For my point 9. I found the privacy settings and that by default it deletes a lot of stuff on exit. Might be good to call these defaults out in the readme.

Not sure if this is for location access https://github.com/ChromiumOS-Guy/uWolf/commit/c27cf41b4b3bd9d1e84519ca0c7abe17637ac19c#diff-9f6e9f7df1d5f0a60e077fa35efd7d122e78595f3852769e59834397b9860c07R3-R5 but still only the browser itself asks for its internal location access permission, it still doesn't ask the OS. I think you should be able to test this far even without the smartphone actually being able to get a fix, right?

@UBportsNews

USB-C headset support is now also enabled on 20.04 series as well.

Wait, this was implemented at all? None of the gitlab issues I subscribed to were updated https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10831/usb-audio-devices-don-t-provide-any-output/6

But I tried it and plugged in USB-C headphones on Volla Quintus with 24.04-1 and sound actually switches to them now. Awesome.

(To be clear, this is for USB-C devices with an USB DAC, and not analog passthrough over USB-C - those have longer been working)

I got Volla Quintus with Ubuntu Touch today and naturally wanted to install the latest updates straight away. But the “Ubuntu touch” “version 3” update fails.

See screenshot for error message. I think umount: /dev/block/dm-1: Invalid argument or /dev/block/dm-1 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12 will be the problem. Maybe e2fsck in the recovery/update installer is older than the one that created the the Ubuntu Touch file system?

What is the best way to solve this? Is it possible to simply deactivate the “FEATURE_C12” in the live ubuntu touch system before the update and/or does this have any negative effects? I only found that if you do it with tune2fs -O ^orphan_file the filesystem needs to be unmounted. I'm new to ubuntu touch, not sure how I would do that.

So... has it been released? I haven't seen any news.

@Fuseteam With main menu I mean the hamburger menu with the three lines.

Made some videos for some of the things.

1: Solo USB key, it's supposed to turn blue when an auth request comes to it. Idk if it needs some kind of usb permission: https://youtube.com/shorts/EIjAkhwfOOw
2. Drop down boxes in the settings page, I think this might be related to the on screen keyboard because it starts working after a menu opens: https://youtube.com/shorts/o5OpgXKtTWk
3. Broken auto complete in the url bar: This time it seems to have learned not to auto correct "about:", but backspace still autocompletes quite broken stuff: https://youtube.com/shorts/Uc5UlPfpEXg

That reminds me that I wanted to make a MR for this: https://gitlab.com/ubports/docs/docs.ubports.com/-/merge_requests/659

i.e.:

If connecting fails with the message ::

kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

check the log on the UBports device ::

journalctl | grep sshd

If you see a message about missing hostkeys such as ::

sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

You need to generate host keys with the following command ::

sudo ssh-keygen -A

Not the only one. I was also surprised plugging in my usb-c headphones did nothing.

Generally it should be noted that this is about headphones with an usb dac. There are also adapters and headphones that pass through analog audio over the usb-c connectors, and those apparently work.

These are the open issues that have been reported so far:

https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/packaging/usb-moded/-/issues/6

https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/ubuntu-touch/-/issues/1912

https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/reference-device-ports/halium13/volla-phone-quintus/volla-algiz/-/issues/3

1. The small UX problems have been mentioned, but I think the biggest one is that quite often the touchscreen input mapping breaks. I think it happens especially after an accidental drag & drop trigger, on an image on a website, or on a tab. Then there is a good chance that either a) one touch input seems to be stuck so if you try to just scroll down with one touch, it does a pinch zoom instead, or b) the touch input is clamped to a part of the screen and you don't have touch input outside of that area. This is probably related to the landscape mode issue, but this is easily triggerable even when the phone is in portrait mode and rotation is disabled. I'm not sure you can do much about that, but it is a real issue because the only way to get proper input back I found so far is killing the app and restarting it.

2. This applies to bluetooth audio and usb audio (the latter apparently works now). It does NOT happen with built in speakers: Firefox likes to control the global volume. Example: Play any audio (e.g. https://radiomii.com/ or any app). Go to youtube in uWolf and start a video. Bam, 100% volume blasting your ears.

Not sure if MOZ_DISABLE_PULSEAUDIO=1 is really a thing (only 1 google result from last month?) but I tried os.environ["MOZ_DISABLE_PULSEAUDIO"] = "1" and it doesn't make a difference. I tried that because I assume the issue is with how firefox creates a separate stream for every tab/media.

In about:config I only saw media.default_volume but not even that seems to do anything about this behavior.

Does anyone know if there would be a way to make firefox behave?

@UBportsNews

USB-C headset support is now also enabled on 20.04 series as well.

Wait, this was implemented at all? None of the gitlab issues I subscribed to were updated https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10831/usb-audio-devices-don-t-provide-any-output/6

But I tried it and plugged in USB-C headphones on Volla Quintus with 24.04-1 and sound actually switches to them now. Awesome.

(To be clear, this is for USB-C devices with an USB DAC, and not analog passthrough over USB-C - those have longer been working)

My hope for real wayland support is that it improves not rendering stuff when idle.

Currently when I run uWolf and power off the screen (even when I focus another app), lomiri permanently uses 30-40% cpu and pulseaudio 15%.

This makes the phone a nice pocket warmer, but also sucks the battery pretty fast.

Or currently, might there be a way to tell firefox to drop its rendering while the screen is off or another app is focused, like maybe "minimizing" it in xwayland?

@naz.R same in uwolf

To answer my own question, yes it still works on Noble as it did on Focal.

As a side note, I feel like I saw GPS (google maps web) working once, but currently it's definitely not working. Do we know what it would take to get it working?

@Ian Thanks, but the command didn't seem to do much. After checking updates again just now, I did get the update though, so all good for me now.

@UBportsNews Huge thanks to everyone involved. I'm not offered the Upgrade on Volla Quintus with OTA-10 yet, is this update also rolled out with delays for random users and if so, is there a way to trigger the update immediately?

@kristatos Got my answer in the 20.04 OTA 10 blog post https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-20-04-ota-10-release-3972

tl:dr: Held back until some boot failures are solved.

So... has it been released? I haven't seen any news.

@Ida_ Ugh it started working again after restarting the phone. I didn't see any obvious errors in journalct or the output of /opt/click.ubuntu.com/uwolf.chromiumos-guy/current/librewolf.sh, not sure what the problem was, but a reboot fixed it.