I am trying to edit the geoclue.conf file, but it says it's read only. I don't know how to change that.    I am using Thunar. I got into su mode in king's cross, but not sure that helped.

Also, I have the modem disabled. Will pinephone still be able to know my location via gsm chips built into the hardware even if I edit geoclue?

In other words, if the modem is off and there's no SIM chip, am I still connected to a satalite anyway?

Massive apologies if I've poked this thread in the wrong place, or it's been answered a thousand times already, I searched in the forum for suitable things, but couldn't find anything.

So, probably a quick question, I want to play with the status LED through Python3. Is there a pre-existing GPIO library that works against the Pinephones GPIO implementation?

I know it's at least theoretically possible as on xnux's site there's a LED page (PinePhone LEDs (xnux.eu)) and having a play around and looking at the uboot-script.cmd for Postmarket, that's fiddling with GPIO on boot (just not in Python-land).

I do see there are a few posts around the Rockchip on the Pine64 boards for pythonic GPIO control, but I wasn't sure if the Pinephone and the Pine64's had vastly different GPIO implementations.

I've looked all over the web for a x86_64 developer / cross compiler live iso.

Preferably without  GUI. Anybody? Any hints?

I think that perhaps I need to add some more repositories in order to install some more software. For example:

lingot
pysolfc

for lingot I simply get

$ sudo apk add lingot
[sudo] password for user:
fetch http://mirror.postmarketos.org/postmarke...DEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3....DEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3....DEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
  lingot (no such package):
    required by: world[lingot]

If I try:
$ sudo apk search -v -d pysol
I get
py3-pysol-cards-0.10.1-r0 - Deal PySol FC Cards

$ sudo apk add (any one of:
for pysol, pysolfc, py3-pysol) I get the same result

I have not used alpine before, so I am learning ... slowly

Thanks

Andrew

Has anyone managed to actually close apps rather than leaving them running on phosh?

Ie. if you open an app (say "settings") then the only option is to minimise it and have it sitting in the home screen, which then moves all the other app icons to a lower position in the home screen

I understand that it is useful to be able to have a few applications open for ease of multi-tasking, but is there a way to force stop an app so it does not sit on the home screen after it has been opened?

When I open settings I get black shapes on settings tab and lag. 
There is video:
https://youtu.be/ZdCNj58Xqwo

Hi, for work, I really need immediate, clear notification of any email I get. I got geary working, but it didn't really offer this, and I didn't see a way to get it to do so in the settings. Any tips? Thanks!

Hi all. RockPro64 Store lists EU and US Power Supplies. I need an AU power supply. Any idea on how to order one?

Hello techlords,

I've been running SXMO on pmOS as my daily driver for 3+ weeks. I am a noob and non-programmer. So, bear with me. I would like to accomplish 3 goals:

1. How can I autoload SD card at boot (the OS runs from emmc)? From there, I plan to use midnight commander (mc) to play some tunes.
   
2. How do I copy received text messages? Sometimes, I receive a HTML link and would like to cut&copy it.
   
3. How can you add programs to the app menu (Thunar adds but MC does not, etc..)?
   

I've been enjoying my 2020 Pinebook Pro (Manjaro) for almost a year without issues. Up until last week, I was able to use Fn + F keys to activate the kill switches for the Wifi and Webcam.

Starting a couple of days ago, these no longer work. In fact, I have noticed a lot of the F keys are not working, in addition to my alt key (cntrl+alt+t no longer pulls up a terminal).

I haven't installed any updates or new software (I only use my laptop for light web browsing and email). I have an external keyboard on the way via Amazon, but I'd rather not use it.

Has anyone experienced this - worried my keyboard is shot, but I have no idea how to confirm or what program to get that would show registered key presses/remaps.