Re: [9fans] Plan9 and Pine

[Thaddeus Woskowiak <tswoskowiak@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:53 AM Romano <unobe@cpan.org> wrote:
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> I am new to Plan9, but just as another data point, there was also drawterm-android2 in the Plan9-Archive on github. I tried this past weekend to get it up and running on an android emulator using Android Studio, but wasn't very familiar with Android Studio or the modifications necessary for drawterm.
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> I bought a Pine Phone, which is supposed to be shipped at the end of next month. My hope is to get drawterm compiled on it, and begin using it as my daily phone. I have a very old smartphone which I've used the Linux Deploy app to install debian. I compiled drawterm so that I can network my phone with my computers easily, but it's the non-graphical option provided by 9front's drawterm. Having graphical drawterm is proving more challenging.
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> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 6:27 PM, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> > > re: Ori.  I understood OP to be talking about doing a new, phone-specific UI.
> >
> > Yes. I think it's doable. It just needs someone to do the doing.
> >
> > From what I recall, there's even an android drawterm that can be used
> > to prototype it without first getting hardware support -- though I
> > can't vouch for how well it works.
> >
> > https://bitbucket.org/echoline/drawterm-android/src/default/
> >
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I have a pinephone as well and was able to build 9front drawterm
without issue on PostmarketOS. I ran it from both the menu and
terminal and was able to connect to my CPU server. BUT! KDE Plasma
uses a different input method meaning drawterm does not trigger the
onscreen keyboard. So you are unfortunately left with no keyboard
input :-( I thought of using a USB keyboard but there is no USB OTG
support as of yet so no devices can be plugged in (I tried for the
heck of it.) Unfortunately the last update borked the phone and input
is trashed completely so I have to fix it but too many projects as it
is.

Screenshot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7twijiDwN8yTbagn8

side note: Watching software build on your mobile phone is liberating.