I know the question’s been asked before, but all the answers said ‘Chats’ which isn’t an answer to the question…
And, while I appreciate what Chats does - I would like to install Element - which refuses, for some reason, to install from Flathub and doesn’t appear to be in the repo. The Flatpak Ref file says:
[Flatpak Ref]
Name=im.riot.Riot
Branch=stable
Title=im.riot.Riot from flathub
IsRuntime=false
Url=https://dl.flathub.org/repo/
SuggestRemoteName=flathub
GPGKey=[yada yada yada]
RuntimeRepo=https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Any suggestions on installing Element received with the greatest thanks.
Has anyone here found that this method mentioned by lck from the Element downloads page actually works? When I try typing in the command
sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.element.io/debian/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg
I get
/usr/share/keyrings/element-io-archive-keyring.gpg: No such file or directory
Thanks for responding. Yes I did run that command first. The output I got was:
wget is already the newest version 1.21-1+deb11u1
wget set to manually installed
apt-transport-https is already the newest version (2.2.4)
0 upgraded 0 newly installed 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded
Do I need to be inside a certain directory when running these commands? I just ran them straight from the regular Terminal app sitting on the home screen.
I finished the rest of the commands and now there’s an Element icon on my home screen and when I touch it, it’s prompting me to choose a password for a new keyring. Does this sound like success?
Instead of making a new topic, I thought I should just ask this here:
Is there a way to make Element fit the screen better?
Using the Compositor scaling in the Mobile Settings app doesn’t seem to have any effect, and I can’t seem to disable the sidebar from within the Element settings.
Ctrl + - increases the resolution. You have to use it at least once to be able to use the next step. Rotating to landscape and back to portrait mode and the side elements will shrank to it’s minimum size. You can scale resolution further for more text space, but don’t do too much, because Ctrl + + does not work for no reason (resetting resolution is more complicated).
Or connect your mouse and drag&drop the sidebar as you can on desktop.
Hey lck, while using the Element app I hit Ctrl - a few times to shrink it and enabled landscape view, then roated it to landscape and back. Now it fits in the screen nicely, but I shrank it too much and can’t read the Element screen now (in either portrait or landscape mode) because the font is too small. Now hitting Ctrl + in either portrait or landscape view won’t enlarge the font, and now whenever I touch the Element app icon, the screen is always stuck in that “too small to read” setting. Even powering the L5 off and back on and re-entering the Element default keyring password doesn’t change the “too small to read” screen. Any suggestions what to try next?
.config is not a file, it’s a hidden folder (the dot in the name tells you that it’s hidden). Open your file manager and click on the upper right corner on the hamburger menu (3 stripes icon). Activate the upper checkbox (“show hidden files” or similar named). After this you should be able to find the folder.
Task manager is just a category of apps. On Librem 5 we have the “Usage” app. Just click on that icon, scroll down and if you find an Element-icon, click on it to close it (and accept with the red button).
