26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
8:28 p.m.
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.
dep
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26 Jun
8:45 p.m.
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?
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.
regards
9:19 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: [tentative] success!
On June 26, 2018 4:45 PM, deloptes <deloptes(a)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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8:45 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] [tentative] success!
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 :-)
dep
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New subject: [trinity-users] [tentative] success!
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:28:46 -0400
dep <dep(a)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.
11:32 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] [tentative] success!
On June 26, 2018 7:01 PM, iadest(a)o2.pl <iadest(a)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.
dep
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