I want to install RealVNC. Downloaded RealVNC deb package. Gdebi installer asks for password. Won't accept "rock"... invalid password.
So... what is the real root password?

I am considering getting a Pinebook Pro with ANSI keyboard. I am a Dvorak typist, so I would really want to move my keys to the Dvorak layout.

Can the Pinebook Pro's keys be removed and rearranged? Are all letter keys shaped identically so they fit in all places? This has been a problem on my Lenovo X200 for instance, as the keys around the TrackPoint are different, so I'm using blank keys (read: I sanded my keycaps) on there instead.

Note that the Dvorak layout only differs from QWERTY with letters and some other 'square' keys. Non-square keys like the spacebar, backspace, Shift, Ctrl and Tab are in the same place.

I just got my ANSI Pinebook Pro yesterday, and I'm already a fan. There are things I'd like to achieve and fix(for instance, running Android apps in Linux and properly hibernating), but, this being a young project, there aren't many tutorials, scripts etc. So I'd like to learn some skills and start working on things. I develop software professionally, but I've never done anything low level, or really even worked with Linux since college. Does anyone have some recommendations on resources for learning to work with the kernel and firmware, etc?

Hi,

today I pushed the button to hibernate the system but it didn' t wake up again. So I pushed the power button to restart the notebook.
Now sytemd can't start NetworkManager.service. There is a core-dump.
Is ist possible to make NetworkManager work again?

Is there any way to run stadia on the PBP?
I tried with the stock Chromium, but it complains it is a too old version of chrome ...

Hi everybody,

my devkit recently arrived and I'd like to charge it.

This may come as a weird question to some, but how do I charge the watch? I need to hold the case closed with relatively much force for the contacts to remain securely closed. I've tried to put something more or less heavy on it while charging, but that didn't do the trick. Permanently closing the backplate with glue probably isn't a good idea either as I will need to flash it every now and then.

How are you guys doing that?

Has anyone looked closely at the work the RebbleOS folks did in creating an open source version of the Pebble OS?

It seems to be based on FreeRTOS and the Pebble hardware is very similar, although presumably we'd only use the center 144x168 pixels of the display.  https://github.com/PebbleA2/wiki/wiki/Watch-Comparison is a good summary of the pebble hardware.  https://github.com/ginge/FreeRTOS-Pebble seems to be the main site for the pebble firmware reimplementation.

The main limitation seems to be that "the Pebble hardware is very similar", that is, PineTime doesn't have a lot of extra CPU, RAM, or Flash to play with.  So the clone implementation can't cut corners, it would have to be at least as good as the original 2012 PebbleOS.  And PineTime has a lot of features that Pebble doesn't...

Still, it would be really nice to be able to cross-compile some of the old pebble watchfaces and see them run on new hardware -- or better, upload a .pbw directly to the watch via bluetooth.  https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pe...index.html documents the pebble APIs you'd need to reimplement.  I looked but couldn't find any documentation on the PBW file format for watch faces. https://github.com/pebble-dev/neographics has a reimplementation of the pebble graphics APIs.

I'm interested in comparing notes with anyone who's thought hard about this.

ANSI PBP, keyboard/touchpad firmware update applied. Using the Fn key with the keys on the top row, Esc through F8 seems fine:

Esc: Calls up the shutdown menu
F1: Brightness down
F2: Brightness up
F3: Seems to be the same as the Pine key? Presumably that's fine
F4: Mute
F5: Volume down
F6: Volume up
F7: Disables the trackpad
F8: Insert

However, F9 onwards seems wrong, both in what keycodes xev reports and in observed behaviour:

F9: Label says Print Screen, but instead Num_Lock
F10: Label says NumLK, but instead Scroll_Lock
F11: Label says ScrLK, but instead Pause
F12: Label says Pause Break, but instead Num_Lock

Other blue-label keys (ie. the numberpad keys, delete, home/end, page up/down) all seem to be mapped as expected.

All, just dropping a note.  Just opened my PBP and everything looks good.  Only issue I found was that while typing the double quote '"' and the at '@' were reversed.  It appears that this is because the default keyboard mapping was set to English(UK) instead of English(US).  

After changing it seems to be working as expected!

-Jared

Is it possible to click 3rd mouse button when there are 3 fingers on touchpad?