What about MyPaint? It is showcased on the Librem 11.
I did not test it. If you’re interested, why not trying out and share your experience?
Gimp was chosen for 2 reasons. 1) I used it for a decade on desktop and love it (with ups and downs) and 2) I wanted to test how a real desktop app is doing on Librem 5 (including calculation power which is good enough!).
There is no real need for such apps in my use-cases, since I’m doing things more efficient on tower.
Edit: For convergence it’s definitely an option.
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MyPaint partially works using Mobile Settings. The top toolbar responds to input, but the one below that with icons does not. The OSK works fine. Drawing does not seem to work.
The reason why I do not contribute to this thread is because I prefer keeping PureOS untampered, which means I always reflash the Librem 5 USA after.
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To add a screenshot of what I am speaking about:
Otherwise the right window will cover the whole screen and you don’t see your edits before pushing the OK-button. All done via touch screen, but it’s also bit imprecise (especially the select tool).
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dconf Editor (flatpak):
EDIT: BTW, that last pic is from desktop, just because I wanted to capture the entire page in the screenshot. It’s the same on L5, but I would have had to shrink the scale down to fit it all in one shot.
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Here’s one I know people will love: Butler, a HomeAssistant GUI. Scales perfectly from what I’ve seen to mobile, developer has not yet marked it as mobile friendly, but they clearly developed it to work well with mobile Linux.
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Also, I couldn’t find any reference to the Kodi Remote mentioned in the top post here, or as any complied binary/flatpak. Is it one of these?
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Search “kodi” and limit the search to this thread; then you’ll see it.
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Ah I was using the browser Ctrl-F, thinking that the whole thread loaded when I scrolled to the bottom. Thanks!
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Terminal app for running AI-models: ollama.ai (see: How-to: Installing AI to L5 and running it locally offline)
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QModMaster on the left is a Modbus protocol test tool. PicPlanner on the right can be used to plan that perfect picture but I tend to use it for knowing the moon and sun positions, max angle expected and when, etc.
QModMaster I did have to shorten a couple of labels and reduce the forms max allowed size but that was about it. Isn’t it awesome to have access to the source code.
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Ptyxis, formally known as GNOME Prompt:
Requires the GNOME Nightly flatpak remote repository:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Ptyxis.Devel
Not listed as mobile-friendly in the App Drawer, so toggle the Show All Apps button.
Supports multiple tabs/windows, various themes, etc. Also briefly showcased in the Accessible Squeekboard Terminal Layout thread:
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in-the-sky.org
This is only a web app, but it provides a way to display the positions of satellites in real time, including those used for navigation, as well as other sky/space objects and spacecraft.
Select objects to display, with or without labels:
Options:
- World map
- Satellites above your horizon
- 3D globe
- Planetarium view
- Search overhead passes
3D Globe view:
World Map view:
For all views, you can zoom in or out, pan in all directions, check objects at any location in the world at any given moment, and by specific date and time.
(Lots of other interesting sky-maps there, too.)
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PokeMMO, but with some adjustments to the default settings.
First, change the interface style to Android to get the on-screen control overlay. Change the scaling of both sets of buttons to be at least 1.5x to work well on portrait too. I also swapped the A and B button for muscle memory.
Change the zoom to be the lowest possible (3) instead of auto to get an expected amount of the world on the screen. With that, you should be good.
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Games … good point:
And finally my own game (currently just one level). Mycelerate (full adaptive, also for landscape)
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Mentioned a couple of times in passing but… unl0kr is an alternative to the LUKS prompt screen when you power up the phone. Its benefits seem to be smaller size, a bit roomier keyboard layout, light/dark setting, and keyboard layout options for us/es/de/fr (azerty) with all kinds of characters included for complex passwords (although the ASCII printable character table may be a safer option).
It also recognizes at least a USB mouse at boot, which may help in some special cases. External keyboard probably too, but mine was a bit iffy. There is some info and tweaks at the repo site.
Installation (from):
- fix your
/etc/crypttabfile: replaceosk-sdl-keyscripttounl0kr-keyscript - install:
sudo apt install unl0kr - rebuild
initrd.imgfile: runsudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-6.6.0-1-librem5[the current image in backports - this may change, so check yours] - reboot (if no errors - otherwise you may want to slow down and backtrack)
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It recognizes my mouse but not my keyboard (they are a usb wireless pair).
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My wired USB kb was partially ok - some keys were fine, others caused unintended actions. May have had something to do with the hubs.
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You should add necessary modules into initrd image. Looks like you can simply add them into /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and reconfigure the kernel image.
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