Is the best solution thePinephone keyboard with PostmarketOS with SXMO?

- and does an additional Bluetooth mouse always disconnect?

- I have chosen postmarketOS for my Pinephone since among the distros which support the PP keyboard and that is postmarketOS, Manjaro Linux, DanctNIX (Arch Linux) and Mobian:

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pin...oard-case/

- postmarketOS is the one Martin Braam has chosen in several YouTube video demos so I have chosen it as well.

- But user reported in the Pine64 forum that only one Bluetooth HID device can be connected at a time:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12973

- and an usb mouse can only be connected if the PP keyboard is not connected:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18586


- Zebulon Walton uses a Bluetooth keyboard with trackpad:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13835

- But I had issues with this device since it always disconnects:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16829

- Is there a user who is happy with Zebulon Waltons Bluetooth keyboard with trackpad?


- There are happy users of the PP keyboard, for instance Hook:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16750

Hook writes:

- «For whatever it is worth in this context, for PostmarketOS with SXMO, the keyboard works perfectly out of the box.

- Alt G gets you the third layer symbols on the numkeys and Pine-numkey gets you the function keys.

- No mods of any sort required.

- Being a noob, SXMO was a little challenging, but once you get it, it is perfect for a phone sized device.

- I just installed nano and away I go.

- SXMO on a PinePhone makes the phone essentially a terminal with menus and gestures. Very nice.


- According to what I have learned and mention in this thread, it sould be possible add additionally a Bluetooth mouse to a PP with the PP keyboard.

- Is there another option to add HIDs?


- Is LibreOffice not one of the applications which can be started up on the PP which is one of apps with the most features for the PP and is highly costumizable:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...614&page=5

- But does it make any sense to costumize LibreOffice for the PP without a keyboard with a lot of keys which can be accessed directly without pressing ALT and SHIFT and Control and the Pine key?


- I studied intensively single board computers and the issues they have with HID devices.

- One such a device is the Orange Pi 5

- On my question « Is there a wireless keyboard which works with the Orange Pi 5?» which I wrote to the armbian forum:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/30167-is...ange-pi-5/

- forum members posted that they use 2.4 GHz keyboards with trackpads which do not require any driver and work out of the box.

- One of these devices is the Ri mini 4 which is part of Chris Sherwood (Crosstalk solutions) kit for the Orange Pi 5:

https://kit.co/crosstalk/orange-pi-5

- The Rii 4 offers Bluetooth and 2.4 Ghz dual mode.

- It is a keyboard from which Chris Sherwood says it works with the Orange Pi 5.

- Is it not the best to choose 2.4 GHz with the dongle of the keyboard which does not require any drivers?

- Did someone get the  Rii 4 mini keyboard with 2.4 Ghz dongle get to work with the PP and is happy with it?

I have a "recent" version of the PinePhonePro (i.e. - there is no RE button.)

Tow-Boot was pre-installed and seems to be working fine.

I don't know what's flashed on the eMMC in the factory, but when I tried to update it, replaced pacman pgp signatures with HTML advertisements for domains for sale (that's a new one.)

But I deleted the .sigs and updated through discovery.

I then got some sort of error on boot, but couldn't quite make it out because I couldn't turn on the backlight.  But the system didn't boot to a graphical screen.

I then downloaded Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephonepro-beta15-rc4.img.xz from https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/pla...e/releases

Flashed it to eMMC using tow-boot and rebooted.

Other than it setting the backlight to zero on boot, everything was fine. screen worked. audio worked. wifi worked. i was able to activate sshd via systemctl.  I was completely happy.

But I did want to add software and update the device.

So...

sudo rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip
sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring archlinuxarm-keyring manjaro-keyring manjaro-arm-keyring
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate
sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
sudo pacman -Sc

and then


sudo pacman -Syyuu

and it downloaded about 900Mb of new packages.  But now when I reboot, it hang w/ a message "failed to start simple desktop display manager" (I figured out that you set the screen dim timeout to never or some large value to avoid having the screen super-dim when it reboots.)

is this the expected behaviour?  are we just not supposed to update?  anyone have references to pages describing how to fix this?

Hi guys, 

I'm trying to build Infinitime project on my windows machine but with no success. I have been following the steps in:

https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniT...Program.md 

I'm stuck in the last step, the make command. 

Cmake command:

Can i install manjaro phosh on pinebook pro?  if yes is it working fine without issues?

Megapixels is not loading on PinePhone Pro with Mobian.

I had installed the prerequistes (according to thread in this forum) for Megapixels:

$ sudo apt install dcraw
$ sudo apt install imagemagick

What is required to have the Megapixels camera app to work in Mobian?

Thank you

Here it says:

https://abiword.en.lo4d.com/windows

«AbiWord is a full and extensive word processor with features and a feel similar to older, more classic versions of Microsoft's Word product.»

- I was able to create and store files on an SD card with Abiword on my Pinephone

- then I transferred the file on an SD card to a Ubuntu PC, modified it here with Abiword

- Then I have put the SD card back to the Pinephone and was able to edit it again with Abiword.

- This worked without issues so far when choosing the .odt format ( Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) ) to save files in Abiword.

- But I had issues when I have chosen the abiword filre format or the .rtf format as discussed here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18788

- The above procedure worked several times for me personally.

- Unfortunatly Abiword always want to save the file in the abiword format.

- I had to choose the .odt format every time I saved a file in Abiword.

- Is there a way to store the files by default in the .odt format in Abiword?

- I always saved the file as a new file.

- I did not test yet how it is if I save the file under the same file name as I opened the file.

Admin,
Delete this account. 
I've requested deletion multiple times and been given scheduled erasure dates, but still the account remains open and you send me unsolicited junk email. 
Sort it out. 
Regards,
MC

maybe from slipping in and out of the keyboard, my pinephone's frame starts to lose some parts. Is this what they call inner frame in their store? is this dfficult to replace? I don't like the frame to be damaged since it does not clip very well into the keyboard even when complete. On the other hand, it snapped in so tightly, the lid of the keyboard cracked too.        

Hello,

I have a friend who mentioned that she would like a soldering iron.  I came across the Pinecil here and now I am intrigued in it as a Christmas present.  My friend is decent with computers, though has never programed as far as I'm aware.  She's a chemist, not a programmer.  So I'm wondering how much messing around with flashing etc. is required it get it running and keep it so.

If I were to get it for her, are there and suggested accessories as well?

I like Pine devices, (my PineTime is cool,) and I'd like to spread interest if possible. 

Thanks!

the mobian blog https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30...t-dilemma/ notes the pinephone Linux kernel is close to being abandoned due to ists dependancy to a single person's development who is not interested in investing more time to develop this kernel anymore: Our single reference tree was then left rotting (the last kernel compatible with the PinePhone being based on 5.9, which was released nearly 3 years ago!) and unmaintained since then. So it does not look like Pinephone users will get any support in future.

Is this true at all, and what does everybody else think about it?