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@ddn

Gnome browser breaks frequently

Librem 5 USA-Trouble using web browser

Hello, Just got my Librem 5 today! I’m having some trouble getting to any web pages. I set it up according to instructions, verified that it is connected to WiFi, but the only web pages I can pull up are search engines. I can do a search, but then if I click on the results, I get the error, “Oops! Something went wrong while displaying this page. Please reload or visit a different page to continue.” The date and time were wrong on the phone even though I was connected to WiFi so I reset them m…

@ddn

Next up, display scaling. The setting does not persist after rebooting.

Screen scale not saved

hello, I notice that changing the scale il the screen settings is not pesisted upon reboot or shutdown. this is a tad frustrating as the default of 200% is too big IMHO. Roland.

@ddn

Auto display brightness is awful

HACK: Automatic brightness

Howdy, I’ve created a really simple hack to get automatic brightness working sanely It’s not perfect, and has some issues, but it’s been working good enough for me for the past few weeks, and thus others might find it helpful. Current issues: If you cover the proximity sensor the screen blanks. The daemon itself isn’t doing anything dumb like setting the brightness to 0. It’s somehow tied to how it’s probing the sensors via monitor-sensor. If you flip off all of the kill switches to off …