05-19-2022, 08:10 AM
I can confirm the detection issue I suspected on Mobian/Phosh - I can get it to start on the phone from the terminal if I force the desktop selection with an environment variable:
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome-wayland libreoffice
It turns out libreoffice tries to detect different desktop environments and behave accordingly, but Phosh isn't one it knows about and its fallback doesn't work with phosh on wayland. If you're using a different desktop it could do something different. If phosh used to be detected as gnome it may have 'just worked' in the past. I assume this is a cross-distro problem, but perhaps they have patches or something different in the desktop environment to make it work.
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/HEAD/...tector.cxx
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show...?id=121275 (an old detection bug with similar symptoms)
You'll need a pointing device as it's not touch friendly, at least by default. I don't know whether there are any optional packages or settings that could improve it. I don't know if I just couldn't touch things accurately enough, or if it's something else like touch generating different events to mouse, but with only the touchscreen I couldn't get it to do much. If you've got a working USB dock and can use a mouse and keyboard it may be fine in landscape. Mine is a BraveHeart without the USB fix so that's not an option. I don't have a bluetooth mouse, and haven't tried the bluetooth keyboard.
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome-wayland libreoffice
It turns out libreoffice tries to detect different desktop environments and behave accordingly, but Phosh isn't one it knows about and its fallback doesn't work with phosh on wayland. If you're using a different desktop it could do something different. If phosh used to be detected as gnome it may have 'just worked' in the past. I assume this is a cross-distro problem, but perhaps they have patches or something different in the desktop environment to make it work.
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/HEAD/...tector.cxx
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show...?id=121275 (an old detection bug with similar symptoms)
You'll need a pointing device as it's not touch friendly, at least by default. I don't know whether there are any optional packages or settings that could improve it. I don't know if I just couldn't touch things accurately enough, or if it's something else like touch generating different events to mouse, but with only the touchscreen I couldn't get it to do much. If you've got a working USB dock and can use a mouse and keyboard it may be fine in landscape. Mine is a BraveHeart without the USB fix so that's not an option. I don't have a bluetooth mouse, and haven't tried the bluetooth keyboard.
