Re: [X1 Tablet] Careful with dist-upgrade in unstable at the moment
On Thursday, 22 December 2022 09:16:50 CET Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> I made an interesting experience regarding the current Qt transition: I
> updated a ThinkPad X1 Gen 1 Tablet with "apt upgrade" yesterday.
Did you manage to have your tablet fully functional in keyboard free mode?
I've experimented with an old Portege Tablet and many applications couldn't be
used without a keyboard or a mouse. I want to use the tablet as a reader and
Okular couldn't be used without "mouse right click" or "keyboard control keys"
which Maliit doesn't (didn't) have. Example: you can go to full screen mode
but you can't leave it, because it would require a right click which I
couldn't manage neither by touch nor by stylus.
On the hardware side, everything was fully functional with pure Wayland
install. I use GDM3 instead of SDDM because the latter still rely on X11/Xorg,
when GDM3 can do without.
Touch screen and stylus (plain Wacom) fully functional.
But the applications were not ready to be used with tablet mode, specially
Maliit, imo, which is fine to insert text but doesn't do keyboard shortcuts at
all, which could atone for absence or right click. Touchscreen longpress-is-
rightclick is on a per application basis, so you (did) have it with Dolphin,
but not with Okular. Same goes for stylus button configuration.
It was a few month ago so I'd be happy to hear how you solved it or if you
stick with the physical keyboard.
Note, integrated Firefox pdf reader, and FF generally, was what was best tuned
for pure tablet mode use, but it was both not very stable at the time, and it
was killing my fanless "Y"-series i5.
I've tried Phosh: couldn't insert my password. Gnome: no better. Actually I
did find some (old) extension of some Gnome keyboard that did provide control
keys, but maybe it was not working with all applications, and also it was
getting all Rube Goldberg, so I gave it back to the cupboard.
But I'm still interested in an open source e-reader working with plain device
as the portege, and I don't want to use outdated technologies like X11/Xorg,
unmaintained for years when Wayland is doing great.
Cheers,
Chris
> Ciao,
>
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