Switch to xfce?

[jakfish]

Code:

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies network-manager-applet onboard

Then:

Code:

sudo systemctl disable phosh

Upon reboot, xfce can come up as desktop. Initial rub: it boots to shell, so both user/password are necessary, followed by:

Code:

startxfce4

With handle-jiggling, xfce works (though not as a phone). Most vexing is the once-again failure of top keys (minus, underscore, etc). Workaround so far is a combination of xbindkeys and onboard keyboard, since in xbindkeys, pipe and backtick produce errors (eg: 

Code:

xdotool type|

makes linux thinks there’s a script error).

To produce accurate battery percentage for combined phone+kb, I had to script a genmon applet. But tuptime also works in genmon.

I’ve keystroked all apps/utilities since touchscreen is hard to use for menus, etc, but phone+kb now looks like a laptop hit by a shrink ray and everything pretty much works.