@Linus67 Thanks very much. Will try it out…

@Linus67 thanks - that’s great. So when you say set cpu cores to half load, how do I do that? Is that the powersave governor?

@Linus67 so what was the conclusion here for light users? Powersave or scaling? Suspension setting on or off? Thanks

@arubislander thanks for the info

I thought I’d read that there would be an OSK in snaps on Noble. Is that correct, and if so, is working in the pre-release versions of Noble that are available?

Thanks

Hi @Salah - I don’t think there can be a general problem with version of the installer else loads of people would be shouting about it. I used that version to try Noble and then go back again earlier in the week on my 3a and it worked fine. The only time I’ve had anything like that was when I had a dodgy USB connection. Which installer did you use to install UT previously?

Don’t know if some server being down would cause the same, but would have thought more people would be complaining if so. Good luck and hope someone more knowledgeable can suggest something.

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?

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