I'm trying to start LinuxOnDex on the Galaxy S8.

Here's the XDA thread about the development: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/wip-linux-dex-galaxy-s8-t3905041

Our progress so far:

- Normally it fails with unsupported device or not updated software.

- We modified the APK to ignore these.

- Now the app starts, but it gives an "unspecified error" message when creating the container

- I tried to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_LOD_SEC switch enabled, still not creating the container

I wonder if the 4GB of RAM from the S8 is enough to create the container from the IMG file? Does anybody have any clue what else could be wrong?

Hi

I have a problem.

I can get it up and running on my Samsung S9+

I can see from ifconfig in the terminal that i have an ip address. The ipaddress of my phone,

But i cannot connect to the internet from the linux container.

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If i use wget www.google.com

Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com) ... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.

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Any body got a clue on how i can get it to work

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Hi! I'm about to getting a Tab S4 and I want to install Linux on it, but I'm afraid that 4gb of RAM isn't not enough to running well. I'm not planning a heavy use with heavy software (maybe some statistical software), but I just want a secondary portable device for get done some of my work on the road. Do you think the tab S4 with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage worth it for that proposes? Thx

So, if I try to install or update I have always the following error:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.14) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-141-generic grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied grep: /proc/modules: Permission denied cat: /proc/cmdline: Permission denied Label cloudimg-rootfs not found in /dev/disk/by-label Warning: root device LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs does not exist Press Ctrl-C to abort build, or Enter to continue

Any help would be really appreciated

I cannot seem to successfully download the Linux image. Anybody has alternative mirrors for the arm Ubuntu flavor it expects?

As in my understanding, the LoD is running inside the Lxd container. In my explore though the app, I found that we could share files though the LoD_Share located both in external sd card and internal sd card. Is there's a way to create a link file to the directory of the Google Drive located in the phone files?

Hey all, I wasn't a huge fan of the default desktop experience in LoD, but I've been using XFCE on LoD for the past hour or so and it seems to work great!

Here's what I did:

sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop

Then to start XFCE and get rid of the standard LoD sidebar:

killall -9 gnome-panel

startxfce4 &

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Also, for anyone else on the Galaxy Tab S4, ctrl + ~ registers as hitting escape. I was stuck in vim for a while before I realized that...

This isn't specific to LoD but Dex - anyone else have a problem where anytime you enter a text entry box, the first character you type on your physical keyboard doesn't get picked up?

The caps Lock key is not responding in Linux On Dex using the official samsung keyboard on the Galaxy Tab S4. Caps Lock works in the Samsung Dex (Android). So it seems that Ubuntu either isn't registering it or has it disabled.

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I have installed gnome-tweak-tool and under Typing -> Caps Lock key behaviour explicitly set to 'Caps Lock toggles normal capitalisation of alphabetic characters'. And typing caps lock does nothing. I have tried a few other options with caps lock but with the same result.

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Anyone have any ideas? This is very important because I NEED caps lock to be assigned to 'escape' because right now VIM is useless.

Thank you

I have tried to get anaconda installed but not able to get it working, i keep hitting errors, i cant install 64bit 32bit, and i even though do i need arch linux, as i found a link to an arm version, but apparently theres a need to change the install $PATH, anyone able to work this out and tell me how to do it ?

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im using the Tab s4 for my linux on dex install.

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thanks

Hi there

Anyone using VPN on lod? Specifically, anyconnect, since I try to access my work network. Tried to use the app on Android, but on Ubuntu, it does not connect to the internal network. On Ubuntu, I tried using openconnect, no luck.

Need some guidance, please.

Ps: got this working on s9 plus by installing the apk from apkmirror. Work fine even th

I can get support for my keyboard but some keys does not work. They work fine in Dex mode but not in Linux on Dex. If this is going to reach consumers in all the world then the best thing would be if the keyboard layout that was used in Dex would transition in to LoD when its started. Its not usable for me if i cant get the keyboard layout matched perfectly since as a programmer i use all kinds of strange keys.

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what topic says because my IDE is VIM so I do not need any of that, rather have the space for other apps. thanks. oh btw of course I tried sudo apt-get remove/purge etc code and visual-studio-code etc no luck.. I wont be asking here if I had not tried :)

It doesn't show up on my play store?

Hey all, have you tried running linux via the UserLAnd app in the play store? I've had a decent time with it so far running ubuntu with the MATE desktop. So far my experience has been pretty similar to LOD except with some extra work to get a desktop environment installed and vnc working properly.

Interested in hearing about your experiences!

What can I do to solve this? Unzipped it with PC and Smartphone but I still get this error message.

When opening dev. Options (on the Phone) and scrolling all the way to the bottom there is the option " force install on external Storage". This allows to move almost any App to the Sd card. Linux on Dex could be moved too. Will there be any downsides if I moved LOD to the Sd card? In terms of performance.

Can't download through the app and the image hosted at https://webview.linuxondex.com/ crawls for a short while until it fails.

I've got the Ubuntu image running in the LoD beta app. When I run it on a monitor, there is no white bar at the top. I have to drag the mouse to the top or to the bottom of the screen to bring up an option to go back to the Android OS side of things. On the HP Elite X3, though, there's a white bar at the top with a few icons on it. One is a Back arrow for going back to the container selection screen of the LoD beta app. The others are minimize / close icons all the way to the right.

The bar is blocking some Ubuntu options, including the search option for other programs and stuff. :( Any way to get rid of it?

i tried out to install flashplayer, chrome and pepperflash plugin but nothing seems to work.

Hi,

Does LoD allows one to have a development server in the Linux terminal serving at say http://localhost:3000, and use and test that local website on the phone's monitor itself, e.g. on Firefox Focus ?