Hello, thank you for your work. It’s very nice to have a stable system without echo and with an up to date phosh.
Just the same issue with the keyboard. I have an additional one with the screen reader on. Just have to put it off in the setting.
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Hi! Nice to hear that you successfully applied backports and find them useful!
I’ve tried to switch back to squeekboard and it works well! So, I have no idea why the keyboard did not show up after latest update… Could you try to select you keyboard again (using ssh or an external one) with the next command:
$ update-alternatives --config Phosh-OSK
Oh, yes! I remember that I had the same. Settings did not help me (the screen reader returned back some time later), so I’ve just deleted the related package.
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Phosh 0.51.0 is here!
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I’m not sure what’s going on but I seem to have lost the whole install. At first during the last month or so the squeek/keyboard has been a bit iffy to appear but now it disappeared totally after recent updates - I can’t get it to show up. Stevia is a no-show too. This while the switch for kb in mobile-settings is on, and that has no effect.
On top of that, starting the settings crashes the whole system (screen goes black, but it did kill the screen reader).
Oh well, new install it is then…
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Wow… Lets start from the simplest thing, system crash must be logged, did you try to find something strange in the journal when you opened the settings? Which kind of settings, g-c-c or mobile?
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Could you try to select you keyboard again (using ssh or an external one) with the next command:
I select 0 (sqeekboard automatic) and it stop working.
, yes! I remember that I had the same. Settings did not help me (the screen reader returned back some time later), so I’ve just deleted the related package.
do you remember the package name ?
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What about stevia? Could you also try to run sqeekboard directly from the console?
It must be orca.
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So I just completed the backports installations and ran into the same keyboard issue. In my case, I was able to start squeekboard from an SSH terminal as others suggested. Also, if I run sudo update-alternatives --config Phosh-OSK and select stevia as the default manual keyboard method, that functions as a workaround that will survive reboots.
Also for whatever reason, some type of accessibility screenreader is active after installing backports and I have yet to be able to figure out how to turn it off.
I also ran into slews of codeberg too many connections errors, but just kept chipping away with sudo apt update --fix-missing again and again until I got all the packages downloaded.
Then I finished the remaining package installations with sudo apt dist-upgrade, and ran sudo apt autoremove -y to clean-up.
After the 1st reboot, I got the welcome app, which was unusable at default 200% scale. Will update this thread with some screenshots when I can.
The bug where switching to 175% scale shows as 100% in the dropdown menu is still there, as reported here
I headed off the LUKS issue by first installing the unl0kr pkg from the codeberg backports repo as advised, editing /etc/crypttab as suggested, and regenerating initrd.img. Rebooted and tested unl0kr first, and then proceeded with installing the bulk of the backports packages.
Excited to have so many up to date versions of apps. Will be testing them throughout the coming weeks and updating this thread with any notable observations.
Thank you @galilley for your work on this.
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One thing I found with this: You can edit the /etc/unl0kr.conf file and make unl0kr permanently dark mode, and add a timeout and other settings, but you have to do it before you update the initrd.img
Edit: See this for more themes
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Thank you Purism, US, Community.
For Linux, Internet, Free Software, US before 21. Now i just feel war and take care. Big Hug to all for what you an some community did.
Take care of your self your community, your body and your health and some planet computation and for future, some some A.I. and future you…
That’s good to know, thanks for sharing that tip. The white screen is blinding at night, would prefer default dark mode.
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got 429 Too Many Requests Error, should I just wait?
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Yeah
maybe use sudo apt --fix-missing dist-upgrade?
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this will fetch the server to download again? I thought I hit the throttle on the codeberg. let me see.
Update: so I did the dist-upgrade, and it reboots everytime when it is configuring the network-manager(all icons are gone too), should I do another round of the dist-upgrade? Thanks.
In general, yes, you should try to perform the next round until all your system will be upgraded. How exactly you run apt dist-upgrade? ssh, console? The first one is better…
first time, console, but it rebooted, then ssh, reboot again. then I left it in the lock screen and ssh in do the dist-upgrade, it worked. But I don’t see most of the icons on the phosh desktop.
really strange behavior… I have no idea about that… Are you able to launch the apps from the command line?
I am able to launch apps from the phosh, just the icons are the default paper icon for all the apps, including the toggle icons, notification icons. I tried to reinstall phosh, it didn’t work.
Check if the icons still exist (I think so) and there is a command to update the GNOME icons list, but forgot how it was. So please just search for it. I don’t know if it solves your issue, but it is at least a try that doesn’t break anything.
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One thing I noticed since installing backports; the slider to control display brightness does not seem to respond in a linear fashion anymore. Seems like 80% of brightness variation is in the last 10% rightside range of the slider.