How is everything KDE?
I'm recently become entirely fascinated by Linux,
hope to teach my child the right way some day later,
think it would help enormously with my immediate future the same,
and was wondering if you could answer a few questions:

1. [Convergence]
If you have [i.e.] Mint or PureOS would KDE Connect work with it?

2. https://invidiou.site/watch?v=-lJt1FpVu0Q
Garuda Linux KDE looks like an e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t place to experiment with KDE for the first time--would a KDE PinePhone be able to connect with it accordingly [Kontact, etc.]?

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/
3. I think a number of scheduling/office programs would help me enormously, and was just curious how the anbox functioned, or how many non-KDE apps were available while still remaining within the mobile setting. In relation to a Librem 5?

4. Purism can separate/create an in-line app from a website, then secure it with something similar to Firejail while keeping it safely compartmentalized...Does a Pine Phone offer anything similar?

Sincere enthusiasm for everything your entire organization works so hard on,
and honest interest in making a purchase or two perhaps sooner than not.

P.S.
This was a rather rushed message, but in return for the help, definitely let me know if you/your friend has/have a lesser known book/project, review/comment needed, deserving band/link/idea,etc.--anything I can help with from afar--that needs a little extra exposure, and I'll definitely share it somehow which might [i.e] help the promotion, as well try my best to it appropriately as well as enthusiastically.

Kindest regards,
-Paul

Hello i tried to search to see if anyone has elemalation station running on the rock64. And I didn't find anything. I have a rock64_v2.0 and iwas courious if it was possible to run elemalation station for old retro games?


Joseph

Hi Everyone!
I'm selling my Manjaro CE Pinephone and Convergence package. The phone and all the accessories are still in their original packaging. I live in Canada and can easily ship it anywhere in the country with a tracking number. 

I bought the convergence package, a battery changer, clear case and tempered glass screen protector. I'll sell the whole package for 200USD + shipping. Essentially you can get the accessories for free and avoid the import tax.

Img updated to 3.4.0.24
Storeman not preinstalled for some reason.
Webcat initially did not work: ran zypper refresh && zypper dup which updated webkitengine, then downloaded storeman rpm.
Sim card recognised, can't verify calls/sms due to network problems in the area.
Some glitches in UI, occasional stalls and ssh dropped when display timed out.

I'm running Ubuntu on my desktops, and Mobian on the phone. I can SSH over LAN pretty easily, but I would like to connect directly over USB, if possible.

As a bonus, it could be nice if I could connect to my Mobian phone over LAN, but through the USB. I just figure it would faster than over wi-fi, which is a little spotty in my house.

Hi there.
From time to time I visit the PINE64 shop because I am interested in a PineTab.
Every time it is "Out of stock ". Have anybody an idea at what time it will available?
Best regards - Martin

Hello,

I'd like to contribute to the Pine64 Wiki, and I need to upload a couple of PDF files that contain PineBook Pro component datasheets.  How do I actually do that?  The file upload limit on the Wiki is only 2 MB, and it also doesn't seem to permit uploads of PDF files.

On the other hand, there are already a bunch of files on files.pine64.org, so there must be a way for uoloading files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hello everybody,

I think that I might have found a clue on why does so many linux applications does not work correctly, or sometimes not at all on PinePhone with Manjaro-arm (and possibly other PinePhone linux distros).

It might not have anything to do with how the developer of the software have developed the application, but a lot to do with the certain libs that were used - which are sometimes compiled differently for different linux distributions.

The clue came from a comment left by a creator of a certain linux application, to a bug report that was targeted at a PinePhone:
https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/635

I quote the developer:

"The file chooser dialog is not part of Foliate. It's provided by whatever xdg-desktop-portal backend you're using, or else it will use the default GTK dialog.

For the GTK bug, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2194. 

On the Librem5, I believe they're shipping a patched version of GTK, the result of which can be seen in this screenshot."

(the discussed screenshot can be seen here: https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/...-11-15.png)

The developer of the Foliate application points out to the guy who have opened a bug report, that the bug has nothing to do with the software it self, and that he is using some type of component of GTK in his application, so what people will see on the screen depends on what is supplied with their operating system.

So probably certain application which fail to work, or are unable to adjust their UI to a mobile device, is because certain GUI libraries that are supplied / compiled together with the said linux distro needs to be tweaked for a mobile screen.

If anybody from the Manjaro-arm team get to see this thread, please let us know, what can be done? could the GTK version that ships with Manjaro can be tweaked / patched to have applications built using GTK (many) to display correctly on the PinePhone' screen?



EDIT: just had a look on this source code: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/debs/gtk
This is gtk tweaked to work with a phone interface


kern707

I currently use XFCE on my Pinebook pro and most is fine. But I really miss the basic tiling from Gnome(is running on a different machine): pressing `super`+ arrow keys makes the current window tile to the left, right or full screen(up).

There is an option in Window Manager -> Keyboard for 'Tile window to the left', but it doesn't really work for me. 

1.Setting  and using `super`+ `Left_Arrow` only works when I first press `Left_Arrow`. But usually I do not think about about which of the keys I press first.

2. It arbitrarily does not work half the time and when it works it sometimes takes just a bit long.

I tried the same setting on an hp stream 11 -- also fairly low power -- and it works perfectly fine and is really quick.

Anybody else have this problem?

Looking for fun projects to do with my 64+

I've seen a lot of kits available on Amazon that are specific to the Rasberry Pi, would these all be compatible with the 64+? 

To that end, any project ideas people would recommend for a complete noob that wants to learn about this stuff, please let me know of them!

Thanks