Happy New Year everyone. In the last linmob update, Peter has said:

Also, once Ubuntu Touch 24.04 lands, running apps via Libertine (the container thingy you can install .deb packages in), is going to make more sense than ever before.

I wondered, if anyone gets a spare moment, if they could very quickly explain what the advantages might be?

@jojumaxx I think most of those issues were before Focal Fossa. A great tip from @arubislander is to add MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 to the exec in firefox.desktop. Libertine Tweak Tool for scaling and I'm sure there's further improvements that can be made also.

Sent from Firefox

You've mentioned the Pinephone a few times. I have one also. But the thing that stops me daily driving it, is not that it's underpowered, but that sooner or later I'll miss a text or a call. As far as I'm aware (please correct me if I'm wrong), there isn't a single pure Linux phone where texts and calls are totally reliable.

So that only leaves us with UT, Droidian/FuriOS and Sailfish. They're all good, and all work reliably for phone usage. I did daily drive Droidian (sorry) on my Pixel 3a for about 6 months, but I ended coming back to UT, as the ability to use and scale any Linux app isn't all it's cracked up to be, and UT has some really cool native apps!

Ultimately, UT does everything I need, and most importantly, I can depend on texts and calls working (I don't use social media). As for browsers, I can't see why more people don't use Firefox via Libertine. It seemed like everybody wanted it when it didn't work, and now it does work, nobody wants it! And it's far from being the only Linux app that works in Libertine.

Hi,

I've got an extenral mini keyboard, but unfortunately, it has no cursor keys. However, the firmware is configurable, so although it has no ESC key either, I can map a key to a value, i.e. 0x1B and I have an ESC key.

I believe cursor keys ar a bit more complicated though, and send something like ESC [ A etc.? But just thought I'd ask on the off chance if there was any values I could use to get cursor key behaviour?

Thanks,