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.

@jojumaxx I think it’s Libertine not Firefox. I just deleted mine.

@jojumaxx excellent. Hope it does the job for you until this new browser appears

@irnbru no worries and glad it helped

@irnbru see my post in https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10107/browser-limits-phone-usability/22

@jojumaxx Hi

In /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/focal/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

replace each occurrence of:
Exec=firefox ...
with:
Exec=env MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox ...

lines 153, 200 and 222

Does that not allow you to do scrolling etc. with the touchscreen?

@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

Can’t you just use Firefox via Libertine?

Hi @Bouleetbil - I've just tried, and got this:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/ubports-scripts$ ./install.sh
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/phablet/.config/systemd/user/debian-mount.service': No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: Unit file debian-mount.service does not exist.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Thanks @Bouleetbil
I did try the new command to create the chroot, and it worked fine. But I was still struggling with some of the later steps.
Hopefully this will make it simpler - looking forward to trying it out…

Hi @Bouleetbil - thanks for this. I'm also using a Pixel 3a (Focal) and thought I'd give this a try, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

After entering the first block of code (Create chroot), it was busy doing stuff for about 10 mins, but then eventually failed with:

W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /home/phablet/Documents/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package dconf-service is at fault)

Looking thorugh the log file I just see lots of dependency errors, e.g.

dpkg: error processing package firefox-esr (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dconf-service
 dconf-gsettings-backend:arm64
 libgtk-3-common
 libgtk-3-0:arm64
 chromium
 maliit-inputcontext-gtk3
 firefox-esr

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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,

Hi,

Does any know if it's possible to get this working in Libertine for Focal Fossa?
Nothing shows up in a search, and I've tried downloading .deb files and installing via the Libertine GUI, but it nothing happens and it says 'Cannot determine package version'.

Thanks

Hi @lduboeuf - thanks for the reply. I was aware though, that the 'Preparatory Step' tells us to install Android 9. But it doesn't give any info on how to install. I went for the command line method, as it seemed easier. This seemed to make it impossible to install UT afterwards and I would never have guessed that the reason was the way I'd installed Adroid 9 (until I found the info buried in the thread I linked to). Thanks.

Hi,

I'm a new Pixel 3a owner and have just got UT working (awesome btw), and just wanted to give some feedback...

I'd like to think that I'm fairly techy but it's just taken me a whole day to get UT installed. And the problems all boiled down to the way I was flashing Android 9. Yes, the information is there in the locked thread https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6798/stuck-on-google-splash-screen-instead-of-going-to-recovery-mode but I think it would be great if this could be added to the 'Preparatory step' section of https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/sargo/

In a nutshell (on Windows 10 at least), DON'T flash with the 'flash-all.bat' script. Instead, use the Android Flash Tool and make sure these (and only these) checkboxes are checked:
Wipe Device
Force Flash all Partitions
Disable Verify
Disable Verification
After that's done, it doesn't matter which version of the installer you use. They all seem to work, so no reason not to use the latest.

Thanks,

I was trying out UT on the Pinephone and just out of curiosity, I set up Libertine and tried Firefox. To my amazement, it seemed to be working pretty well
Has anybody tried this on other Focal devices?
Thanks

Hi,

I thought it might be good to have the launcher on the bottom edge, and did some searching and found:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom

It seems to accept the setting and when I read back the value it's changed, but nothing changes in the UI. Does anybody know if this should be possible?

Thanks

Sorted - thanks very much

Hi,

I've followed:
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/advanceduse/ssh.html

When I try and ssh from Git bash (or Putty), I get permission denied. I've even tried the -i option to specify the my key file.

Windows@Windows-PC MINGW64 ~/.ssh
$ pwd
/c/Users/Windows/.ssh

Windows@Windows-PC MINGW64 ~/.ssh
$ ls
id_rsa id_rsa.pub

Windows@Windows-PC MINGW64 ~/.ssh
$ ssh -i ./id_rsa.pub phablet@192.168.0.13
The authenticity of host '192.168.0.13 (192.168.0.13)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:WKT3/hAtjWDUTiht4wkTp5LfTQ+orK4hQZ/gEE7b0Zg.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.13' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
phablet@192.168.0.13: Permission denied (publickey).

Any ideas most gratefully received.

Thanks

Hi,

I've just got a Nexus 5 to try ubports. The installation was amazingly easy (once I had adb tools in my path), and I really like it so far. But the one thing that totally confuses me is the 'desktop' and 'shortcuts'...

When I do a right edge swipe I see all my open apps in a stack, but for each one, I also seem to get a corresponding shortcut on the desktop? When I close any of these apps, it disappears from the stack and the shortcut disappears too. If I close them all, I'm just left with the app drawer and the corresponding 'scopes' shortcut, which I can't close.

So my questions are:

1. Is the desktop area something I can use myself, and place my own shortcuts, files etc., onto. Or is it purely for the purpose of displaying, selecting and closing open apps?
2. The shortcuts that appear just seem to be a duplication of the list of open apps in the stack, so I don't really get their purpose?

Sorry if I'm using strange terminology, but I'm completely new to UT. I'm using 16.04/stable btw.
Many thanks for any advice...