there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
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there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
do you mean the gemini board?
I think you qualify to be the first doing smart phone with trinity :D (joke)
I guess most of us do not have such a thing. In fact I try to not buy things I do not need for sure ... each such thing means less time and need to care .. and there is enough around already.
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On June 26, 2018 4:45 PM, deloptes deloptes@gmail.com wrote:
dep wrote:
there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
do you mean the gemini board?
no -- until a whole lot of stuff gets sorted out with the gemini it won't be able to run trinity. the only wm that works at all well on gemini is kwin, and the only reliable desktop for the device is lxqt. everything else doesn't support the acceleerated video, such as it is, and is deadly slow (as in libre office: type a character. wait. character eventually appears. type next character . . .) it is alleged that the phone works, except for the audio part, which some of us find important in making and receiving telephone calls. i think the best hope for a non-googledroid gemini will be in sailfish -- the only linux distribution that doesn't run linux apps.
I think you qualify to be the first doing smart phone with trinity :D (joke)
it was brief and painful. unlike the gpd pocket that as i write this is upgrading from ubuntu 17.10 to ubuntu 18.04. but it's not a phone. it's a very small notebook computer with an intel chip and 8 gigs of memory, though only 128 gigs of storage; (and i remeber getting my first 1-gig drive and thinking i would never fill it up, and how i would certainly never unironically use the phrase "only 128 gigs of storage.) it's a full unix workstation the size of a small paperback book.
I guess most of us do not have such a thing. In fact I try to not buy things I do not need for sure ... each such thing means less time and need to care .. and there is enough around already.
i'm guilty of doing that from time to time, but in this case i actually do need a good portable device -- i need to ship pictures, captions, and stories from news events to the newspaper office on deadline, and not carting around a notebook machine will be easier both on me and on the notebook -- need something that fits in a jacket pocket. once i get the gpd gadget configured, i'll get a 4G dongle for it. and that should solve the problem until the gemini's development is farther along. the gpd is about twice the size of the gemini.
though doing all this *is* fun.
dep
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Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018 schrieb dep:
there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
Maybe you are the only one that owns one of these quite nice devices :-)
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:28:46 -0400 dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
Good luck with toolbar sizes to be usable both with joysticks, stylus and touch. I have GPD Win, installed Debian on it and also had TDE for a short time. However, I found that TDE is good for more powerful (not in sense of resources, but usage) machines - there are lots of options which I can use comfortably on my dual 2048x1536 setting or even a full HD desktop, but not in such small screen. I ended with Xlunch launcher as a primary "start menu" bound to key combination, window manager and panel from MATE and Double Commander as main file manager. MCbx
P.S. From GPD Win perspective: Does the suspend-to-disk really work? In Win there were enormous problems with it even under OEM Windows.
On June 26, 2018 7:01 PM, iadest@o2.pl iadest@o2.pl wrote:
Good luck with toolbar sizes to be usable both with joysticks, stylus
and touch. I have GPD Win, installed Debian on it and also had TDE for
a short time. However, I found that TDE is good for more powerful (not
in sense of resources, but usage) machines - there are lots of options
which I can use comfortably on my dual 2048x1536 setting or even a full
HD desktop, but not in such small screen. I ended with Xlunch
launcher as a primary "start menu" bound to key combination, window
manager and panel from MATE and Double Commander as main file manager.
The Pocket is way different from the Win. It's more a very small laptop, while the Win was envisioned as a gaming device more than anything else, I think. There are no joysticks, just a Thinkpad-Trackpoint-style rubber nub (which I replaced with a "cat's tongue" nub from a Thinkpad 500 from 25 years ago -- much more precise because not at all slippery). With that I have need for neither touchscreen (though it does work in Trinity, to my mild surprise) nor stylus. The magnification or whatever it is is set at 2, so things aren't too tiny, and setting up Kicker was fairly trivial in most respects. I think it will work out pretty well -- though there are a few hours of configuration yet to come. And no doubt -- it's a computer, after all -- the places that will be most hellish to sort out are the ones that ought to be easiest.
P.S. From GPD Win perspective: Does the suspend-to-disk really work? In
Win there were enormous problems with it even under OEM Windows.
What? Windows doesn't work? Who'd have guessed?<g> There's a fairly substantial developer community, with all kinds of patches and stuff to make everything that is supposed to work work:
https://github.com/stockmind/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin
I haven't tried hibernation, but the last time I encountered a working hibernate on a computer was in 1993, on a Zeos Contenda running OS/2. Booted it on the airplane to Kuwait, used it every day I was there, and didn't have to reboot for months afterwards. Of course, the hibernate file was, what, 8 megs.
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