You may want to use a Crimson or Mobian ‘Bookworm’ image on a microSD card to see if virtual keystroke passthrough works with them instead, as some of the most recent information surrounding VNC clients on Byzantium do not support it:
I have historically described that I was doing something like this as the solution to my older Android app life problem – which is to say, running Waydroid in a rented cloud node and remote connecting into it.
But, truth be told, it’s more complicated than that. I don’t know if it’s Google, or human apathy and my fault for not bug reporting and contributing to open source tools, or what. But in reality, running Waydroid indefinitely in a remote access endpoint has given me some major troubles: …
Hi. I mentioned this long ago in another thread, but for a while I have been doing the thing where I remotely use Waydroid, but keep the Waydroid confined to run on a VPS rather than to run it on the Librem 5, so that my Librem 5 can stay clean and nice without Waydroid actually on it.
But what I didn’t describe much was that this solution always had a problem. Starting up waydroid inside the remote-control VPS didn’t work from the Librem 5 because the VNC client I was using was (for some reaso…