With the latest fixes landed in Adam Thiede’s flatpak repository, you may want to give the Signal app another chance – it’s working on the L5 in portrait mode now:
I mentioned this the other day on an older thread, but since you were kind enough to make a new topic relevant to it I shall add it here.
In Signal Desktop app settings there is now the option to scale the chat window down to 75%, which, in my opinion, makes it even more friendly for portrait viewing
In Signal Desktop app settings there is now the option to scale the chat window down to 75%, which, in my opinion, makes it even more friendly for portrait viewing
I agree.
A zoom level of 75% is necessary for the emoji overlay to have a working ellipsis (…) button.
Do these flags work better? If so I will replace what I have on the site with this.
Also I am glad this continues to be useful for you. The fixes were implemented by a contribution, not by me.
As I don’t use Signal anymore, I won’t know when things are broken. If you do have bug reports or issues, please add them to the repo so that at least someone can try to fix it!
Definately appreciate the work that has gone into this. However, is anyone else getting a few strange bugs with the on-screen keyboard?
When typing messages, a few of the characters on the on-screen keyboard don’t work. I believe it is Q and K.
I believe it works if connected to a keyboard but that isn’t really a fix for trying to use my Librem5 as a daily driver. Any fixes / suggestions would be great!
Can confirm. It has been that way for many releases.
However, it’s different keys for me, maybe due to German keyboard.
Works fine with external keyboards as you suggested.
My workaround for now is to rephrase my messages to avoid affected letters. That’s not a good long-term solution either.
One half-workaround I found is if you press the “globe” button on the keyboard you can select the “Terminal” setting for the keyboard which pushes the keys down. This will allow Q and K to work but will make other keys broken instead, lol. Then you’d need to switch back again.
It is just about workable but really is painful. It seems like if we could nail this last glitch Signal would be more or less good to go!
I can confirm that in Spanish n, w, y, ñ, V, é, Í, ú don’t work and that ó works as “home” key in the line. I haven’t tried all the keys, so probably there are more bugs
I haven’t had any problems with the “Q” or “K” keys on Signal. The only problem I have is with capital “C” where it basically acts as a backspace. This is for default English US keyboard
just tried this by removing the wayland arguments from desktop file. Confirmed all keys work except capital C which now works like a backspace, lol.
And of course things are a lot more blurry
EDIT: After testing more, Ive found this to be worse on balance so I reverted back. attachments now crash the app, and the app is blurry. Looks like the issues were reported some time ago so shame there is still no fix yet…
Did I understand this correctly to be a temporary workaround for the Chromium bug that would fix the Signal (and other Chromium related) input issues? I’m assuming this hasn’t been rolled out yet?
Perhaps @dos would like to shed some light on this as I’m a little out of my depth
Hi, I am relatively new to Linux and just received my L5.
I wish to install Signal so I can talk and text over WiFi.
I ran:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install devscripts git git-buildpackage
But now I have a screen that is looking for the default mirror for pbuilder.
I dont know what that is and the terminal does not seem to accept any inputs.
