Two questions if I may ask:
1 - How would it be possible to lower the minimum screen brightness?
2 - Would it be possible to have a full-screen function like the F11 function there is on Ubuntu Desktop? This would allow to display more lines to read on the web browser by hiding the web page address at the top of the screen. This would be particularly handsome in landscape mode.
There are a number of threads about the loss of WiFi password after reboot of the Nexus 5 and of the BQ M10 but not much about the same problem on the MEIZU Pro 5 apart from https://forums.ubports.com/topic/708/meizu-pro5-fastboot-mode-locked
I have a MEIZU Pro 5 with 4GB of RAM and Ubuntu Touch 16.04 UBports OTA-7. This is not the Ubuntu Touch edition. This phone came with Flyme OS and I installed Ubuntu on it. I need to re-enter the WiFi password after reboot.
The way this problem occurs is strange because the password is not completely lost. If I open the Settings, go to Wi-Fi and then to the list of Previous networks, my access point is still there and it does have the password. The problem is that when I select this access point in this list, the only option I have is to Forget this network. I can't enable the connection from the list of previous networks.
In order to connect to this access point, I have to select it from the current list of networks from which the password is lost. Once I enter again the password, the list of Previous networks creates a new entry with the same network name albeit with the suffix " 1" added to it. If I reboot again and do the same thing, a new entry appears once again, this time with the suffix " 2". And so on with the suffixes 3, 4, 5, etc...
Has anyone found out how to fix the problem since the thread mentioned above?
Usually recent mobile phones don't run UT because it takes time to port the software onto them. So I am surprised that the port to the OnePlus 6T was so quick. What happened then?
Has anyone tested convergence on this beast of 8GB of RAM? This could be an ideal device for use as a desktop computer.
Shall we ever be able to boot from a mainline kernel and from an SD card on Android devices?
@kugiigi You are right. Thanks.
Alright, I did find a file /home/phablet/.cache/libertine/puritine/PuritineSymlinkFarm.json and I deleted it. I don't know why I couldn't see it with find.
Yes I know I have to replace CONTAINER-IDENTIFIER with the identifier of my container, i.e. xenial.
~root refers to /root.
I have found the following text files which I deleted:
/.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/libertine-scope.ubuntu_libertine-scope/.surfacing_cache
/.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/clickscope/.surfacing_cache
But still no change, even after reboot. It seems that the container is very much contained and unbreakable! But don't worry, I am going to reinstall UT anyway.
Thank you to all for your help.
All Ubuntu Touch apps store user data in ~/.local/share/app-name/. It is impossible to open a file stored for instance in ~/Documents/.
One way around this would be to create a symbolic link:
$ ln -s ~/Document/data-file ~/.local/share/app-name/link-to-data-file
Unfortunately, opening such a link with an app yield an empty file. However, if the data file were in the same directory as the link, then opening the link would yield the full non empty file. That is, if the link is created as:
$ ln -s ~/.local/share/app-name/data-file ~/.local/share/app-name/link-to-data-file
then everything works fine.
It seems that Ubuntu Touch apps are blind to the directory tree. Does anybody know a way around this problem? How could one choose where to store data files and not be restricted to ~/.local/share/app-name/ ?
@BrisPete Thanks BrisPete. I should have found out by myself instead of starting a new thread... Sorry.
UT Tweak Tool themes have no effect on the brightness of apps.
I lower the display brightness to its minimum when in the dark but I find this minimum a bit too high. In the dark, the brightness is a bit blinding. How would it be possible to alter this minimum?
@UniSuperBox I would just like to know your opinion on this optimisation work because it looks very impressive.
Could we have Dalton's cat opinion on UT development?
Usually recent mobile phones don't run UT because it takes time to port the software onto them. So I am surprised that the port to the OnePlus 6T was so quick. What happened then?
Has anyone tested convergence on this beast of 8GB of RAM? This could be an ideal device for use as a desktop computer.
Would it be possible to boot the PP from external flash memory connected to the USB-C port? This would avoid having to remove the back cover when swapping SD cards.
@ThePossessor said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 84 This Saturday At 19:00 UTC:
I am curious: what happened to librem 5 UBports port?
While quite some months ago we saw quick progress, at some point for some reason it was more or less "wiped" from UBports site. What's the story behind this?
Purism recently claimed that hardware will be shipped "late November 2020". Will there still be a port available?
Could it be because someone noticed that if you remove just one letter from "Purism", you get PRISM !?
Why was Chromium chosen as a basis for the Morph browser instead of Firefox? Would it have been easier to install add-ons like NoScript and Badger with Firefox? What about Firefox Focus (aka Firefox Klar in Germany)?
May I ask what the plane box on Florian's shelves is?
It turns out that the SunshineTronic SlimPort adapter is not fake. It does works... on the Nexus 7 but not on the Nexus 5, at least not on my monitor and TV.
However the resolution sent by the phone to my PC monitor does not match the resolution of the monitor itself, leading to a strange horizontally stretched rendering that is not very usable.
Shall we ever be able to boot from a mainline kernel and from an SD card on Android devices?