I just downloaded yesterday the librem 5 image again and ran it with qemu-kvm. As we don’t get the daily videos of librem 5 anymore I thought clicking in it myself a bit, as I wanted to know some programs in the past (like games if they run). Maybe you have the same desire. That’s why I thought I make this post.
Here’s the offer, just post the App you want to see on a Librem 5 and I will install it in the qemu machine and make a screenshot or video. Best would be to tell me the package from apt, so that I don’t have to search.
You can ask any program, you could also ask me to show a special feature of that program which you currently use on your desktop.
Important: I won’t search for similar programs you use on e.g. android, windows or apple os - you have to name me a valid program for debian / pureos.
Disclaimer: Only because something works in my qemu machine, it doesn’t mean it will work for you on the mobile or the other way round as my qemu machine uses x86_64!
If you have time i whould like to see chatty and fractal, their settings and then running with some chat, the first using an xmpp and matrix server i’m curious to see the UI and how can you understand what protocol and account are you using, because i never used one app to manage more protocols and accounts, then fractal ofc with matrix
I uploaded chatty and stellarium. I will test fractal later. It needs to be installed via flathub as there is no debian package for fractal yet. I will do that soon and then upload the video.
I would be curious to know which of these ebook readers work best in the Librem 5.
It seems that we will never have a decent text-to-speech engine in Linux. I have already resigned myself to using a proprietary service online to convert my epub files to mp3, since its sound quality is so much better than TTS in Linux.
Max, thanks for this. I watched the video about the stellarium running on the qemu (i.e. not the web version) quite a few times… Does it mean that it crashes? Could you please gather the console output as text and post it here or send it to me (guru(at)unixarea.de) in private mail. Thanks again.
I added the requested apps to the initial link. Fractal is there too now. I am not sure if I will have time tomorrow to add more videos, I will defenitely not have time thursday and friday - so maybe I will continue on the weekend. I will work through the apps from top to bottom so fcfs.
Hope you are enjoing the videos - Don’t get this too negative, what you can see is that the apps work and those optimized for mobile work very well. Those not optimized run and are or somehow usable or will be working when connected to a monitor (convergence) I guess.
I would like to know if the password managers KeePassX (package “keepassx”) and KeePassXC (package “keepassxc”) are working. Not to be mixed up with Keepass which is based on .Net as far as I know and would need to install mono on linux, which feel wrong to me.
The Linux version of KeePassX (in contrast to it’s Windows version) has build in AutoType which can be triggered with Ctrl + V. So you can put the curser in the browser or whatever into the username field of a login formular, switch to KeePassX, select the account, press the shortcut.
KeePassX will minimize itself can input your login credentials automatically. Really nice. Makes it handy to use 40 character 100% (pseudo)-random passwords.
Another one. I am not up to date about porting the Signal messenger to Librem 5. Another approach could be to use Signal desktop. It runs fine on my Linux laptop, even if I don’t like those web-based local software.
P.S. Oh, I see there is “[arch=amd64]” so I guess it doesn’t work this way. I don’t know it could simply be substituted with “[arch=arm]” or something similar or if the whole build must be reproduced for the Librem 5’s architecture.
