Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

I have qxdisplay 0.1 here - https://mega.nz/file/Ew9xgQQT#HMgNUi...Yu25I3e1Iyua8Q

Not sure what is different/better, but in case anyone wants...

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

harbour-containers is undergoing testing in Chum repo (not available in the main repository yet, we found a couple non-critical bugs we'd like to resolve before pushing to the main repository). Meanwhile, I'm working on making Arch available out of the box:

https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/r/84315

Testers welcome. It's in the devel-k branch for now: https://github.com/sailfish-containe...s/tree/devel-k

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

You should lose nothing by switching to latest qxcompositor, and if your device is in a SFOS version higher than 4.2, then you'd get dynamic auto-orientation. This requires editing a script from harbour-containers to reflect the change, but this is taken care of in the new version that will be available in Chum. Before it hits the main Chum repository, you can try it from here: https://github.com/sailfish-containe...e-devel-builds

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

I've updated the debian-mouse.sh script in the first post. (If some would like to start the guest os from the command line or (like me) with a custom .desktop icon)
It has two parameters:
$1 - container name;
$2 - p or l or a for portrait/landscape/auto-rotate mode
Please note: If it is called WITHOUT the second parameter, it starts with auto-rotate. :)

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

Testers welcome for the devel-k branch: https://github.com/sailfish-containe...e-devel-builds

If tests pass well enough, then we might be able to merge it to master and make it available right from the Chum app store, for a one click install.

https://github.com/sailfish-containe...ian-i3_800.jpg

https://github.com/sailfish-containe...rch-i3_800.jpg

https://github.com/sailfish-containe...-xfce4_800.jpg

Make sure you have a stable connection to avoid package installation failures. The i3 and xfce4 default configuration are very basic, but should make use on mobile easier than the real default not adapted to hidpi or touch use.

If you picked i3 as your window manager, Alt is your $mod, so Alt+Return to open a terminal, and Alt+d for dmenu. Your i3 configuration can be changed in ~/.config/i3/config.

Changelog
Known issues/limitations:
- If unfortunately a terminal window did not appear after you created a new container, despite checking "Setup desktop", then you will have to go into the page of that new container, hit "init container config" at the bottom, start the container from the pulley menu, and then hit "setup xsession". The installation and configuration should then proceed.
- If your SailfishOS username is not defaultuser, then the GUI cannot start an X session; this is being worked on and in the mean time, you can try opening the X session from CLI
- No sound in some devices, and it may silence some SFOS sounds (alarms, media) as well (else, please tell us)
- No hardware acceleration
- Only prebuilt binaries of Xwayland can be used at the moment inside containers (this is automated when setting up xsession from the GUI), because latest sources don’t support the XDG_WM_Base protocol that we need

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

harbour-containers is now in the Chum repository, hence easy to install!

https://github.com/sailfish-containe...18_001_480.png

Please let us know if there are any issues (but check the known issues first), preferably as issues in the repositories so that we get notifications.

It's only tested by me so far, and on a single device, so I hope it will work well enough for other devices.

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

Question:
On the "lxc-attach -n Deb" command, I get the following error:

"Operation not permitted - Failed to rexec as memfd
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted"

Sfos 4.4 (On older versions it works.)

Has anybody experienced this?

Edit: strace log

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

Same error on SFOS 4.5.

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

I followed the instructions yesterday and now I found that AlienDalvik doesn't come up any more on my XA2.

It says "cannot start" in the Android App Support settings page. I can hit "Start", then it will say "started", but when I try to open an Android application it says again on the top of the screen that it's starting the app support.

EDIT: Not sure how exactly, but after uninstalling both, AlienDalvik and "Containers" and rebooting, the app support was back - even though I hadn't installed it again at that point. Files like /opt/alien were still around though.

Re: Full linux distros on Sailfish OS
 

I do wonder how the AD support came back after reboot when that package was removed.
Containers can have an impact on the Android Support as both uses LXC containers. Although, unlikely that installing a Linux desktop distro into an LXC container would ruin Android Support because they are independent containers. Please let us know what packages you had installed and how did you installed/configured the desktop distro (step by step) Also, some logs also can be useful to see what's happening under the hood.