Hi, I can’t imagine no one has noticed this yet but couldn’t find anything about it yet. Feel free to merge/move this to where it belongs

Ever since updating to 16.04/devel, once libertine started working again, it works differently from how it was in 15.04.

It used to open everything an app did in the same window. Even new apps started by an app, like when you launch gedit from terminal. This was cumbersome, but the new situation is the other extreme: everything, tooltips, drop down menus, right-click menus, dialogue boxes, everything opens in a new window. Some middle road must be able to be achieved?

See also the github issue I made for it. https://github.com/ubports/libertine/issues/10

Does anyone have this problem too, and is there any way to fix it? Is this an xmir/mir/Xorg thing?

Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out how I can dualboot my Nexus 10 with an image from Ubports

I currently have a dualboot through Canonical's Dualboot Installer app in Android, running a very old an discontinued version of Ubuntu Touch (April 2015 i think) as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DualBootInstallation

learning about Ubports' efforts to make a working Nexus 10 image, i wanted to have a looksee

The abovementioned site describes a way to use a custom image server (in this case Ubports' server) but i can't get it to work.
This is my preferred way, because it preserves my current Android installation.

so my question is:

Can anyone help me with the right way to point to Ubports' server, or tell me about better ways to dualboot (and preferrably keep my Android setup intact)?

This is what i did up to now:
I took the server location from Ubports' install script:
sudo ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable --device=manta --bootstrap

and pasted it into the command found on the wiki:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $CUSTOM_SERVER_URL > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

creating:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $http://system-image.ubports.com > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

the custom_server file is created, but the installer doesn't give me any new channels to install.
Am I just missing some things, or am I just embarrassing myself here?

Hi, has anyone tried to install anbox on a bq M10 HD yet?

i have , but anbox-tool is telling me i need to flash the kernel, but i did that?!

i followed instructions from here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

might there be some step missing? or is the anbox-boot-cooler.img not functional?

@doniks

it went from EVERYthing in the same xsession (and 1 xsession per window) to EVERYthing in a new window (don't know if it's multiple windows per xsession or worse, every gui item getting it's own xsession now)

i suspect xmir recently became aware of new windows, but either

1. still lacks the abilty to classify, or
2. has support for window classes but is not getting the proper instructions?

thinking about it, if every gui item gets it's own xsession, xmir is not wrong to give it a new window, so
3. xmir has support for window classes, probably gets the right instructions too, but only receives new xsessions == new window

how does Mir itself handle it? (don't have a mir session to play with on my pc)
/Edit:
Fun fact: i just tried with libreoffice on wayland and on Xorg: Wayland doesn't allow floating toolbars! i have to dock it somewhere, where on Xorg, i can have floating toolbars. the floating toolbar even shows on the panel as a separate window (tooltips and menus don't though)

@doniks judging by how hot my FP2 can get, and FP2's are mostly found in northwestern Europe, do we have correlation?

@killerbee indeed, so it's not depending on a specific toolkit (XUL, GTK3, QT, whatever libreoffice uses), but has to do with window classes not being recognized or not properly dealt with. which is a window manager thing.

Rodney told me on telegram that the problem might go away when we move from xmir to xwayland, but no idea on ETA on that

Hi, I can’t imagine no one has noticed this yet but couldn’t find anything about it yet. Feel free to merge/move this to where it belongs

Ever since updating to 16.04/devel, once libertine started working again, it works differently from how it was in 15.04.

It used to open everything an app did in the same window. Even new apps started by an app, like when you launch gedit from terminal. This was cumbersome, but the new situation is the other extreme: everything, tooltips, drop down menus, right-click menus, dialogue boxes, everything opens in a new window. Some middle road must be able to be achieved?

See also the github issue I made for it. https://github.com/ubports/libertine/issues/10

Does anyone have this problem too, and is there any way to fix it? Is this an xmir/mir/Xorg thing?

Hey Florian, thanks for the heads-up!

I followed the instructions on a windows 7 pc (don't think that matters, but there you go ) and a Fairphone 2 running UT 15.04 devel r280

flashing went smooth, phone is up and running. i will keep an eye on stability.

i have been experiencing signal loss (take it out of my pocket, see an X on the signal indicator, unlock the phone, indicator jumps to at least a little signal. seems as though being in my pocket is enough to lose signal?) would this patch help with that too? lets wait and see...

The dualboot part is working as far as i can see. The problem is the image for nexus 10. it is broken, and even though it still churns out versions, it just does not get fixed. Somehow nobody wants to try and fix this. Fine, maybe it's just too broken to bother, but then at least be honest and remove that 90% functionality from the website.

At least you gave a means to dualboot a device with an ubports image, which is something. Thanks for your effort.

Yougo

Hi Trojan_t, did you get Ubuntu touch installed and running yet? I tried a while ago and am still interested.

Sorry for bumping this thread, but has anyone gotten this working yet?
i'm still getting the "This phone needs restoring from a PC...." message.

it's really frustrating to see Nexus 10 listed as 80% operable, but installation is stuck for almost half a year now...

if somone knows how, please help out here.

Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out how I can dualboot my Nexus 10 with an image from Ubports

I currently have a dualboot through Canonical's Dualboot Installer app in Android, running a very old an discontinued version of Ubuntu Touch (April 2015 i think) as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DualBootInstallation

learning about Ubports' efforts to make a working Nexus 10 image, i wanted to have a looksee

The abovementioned site describes a way to use a custom image server (in this case Ubports' server) but i can't get it to work.
This is my preferred way, because it preserves my current Android installation.

so my question is:

Can anyone help me with the right way to point to Ubports' server, or tell me about better ways to dualboot (and preferrably keep my Android setup intact)?

This is what i did up to now:
I took the server location from Ubports' install script:
sudo ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable --device=manta --bootstrap

and pasted it into the command found on the wiki:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $CUSTOM_SERVER_URL > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

creating:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $http://system-image.ubports.com > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

the custom_server file is created, but the installer doesn't give me any new channels to install.
Am I just missing some things, or am I just embarrassing myself here?