On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Andrea Bernabei <andrea.berna...@canonical.com> wrote: > Very interesting tinkering, thanks for posting this :) > > What I can say is, you can also try Meet Jitsi (WebRTC) in the default > Ubuntu Touch browser and you'll get no audio/video there either. So one good > news is that when it will work there it will probably work in Firefox Hello > as well :) > > By the way, since I didn't find any bug about it, I just filed one, feel > free to subscibe to it ;) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1466015 >
This one, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1410996 would be a prerequisite for WebRTC. The test page to check for WebRTC support is https://test.webrtc.org/ Simos > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Marco A. Harrendorf <marcoka...@web.de> > wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> since now Vivid is the new stable version I tried out starting of native >> X11 applications on my phone as described in the German Ubuntuusers >> Wiki, have a look here: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/Ubuntu_Touch_Erweiterte_Konfiguration#Grafische-Programme-vom-Ubuntu-PC >> >> Starting graphical X11 programs on my Ubuntu Phone is working quite >> well, especially if you consider that it is still unsupported. My aim in >> testing was to get a Web browser like Firefox or Chromium working, so >> that I can you use it for my desktop bookmarks and WebRTC VOIP >> telephony. >> >> I will describe here shortly, what you have to do to start graphical >> programs. Note: I have adopted the work from the above-mentioned Wiki >> page. So many thanks goes to the authors! >> >> * Make your system partition writable >> >> sudo mount -o remount,rw / >> >> * Install a PPA with an updated XMir server >> >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mlankhorst/ppa >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-xmir >> >> * Install Fluxbox as window manager >> sudo apt-get install fluxbox >> >> * Install xvkbd as a virtual keyboard >> sudo apt-get install xvkbd >> >> * Install some Web Browser like Dillo, Firefox and Chromium >> sudo apt-get install dillo >> sudo apt-get install firefox >> sudo apt-get install chromium-browser >> >> Note: If you have not enough space left on your system partition / >> (check with df -h) and getting error messages during install, I propose >> a solution later. >> >> * Create a programmstarter script, which allows to start graphical >> programs by just giving their console command >> ~/.local/share/applications/programstarter.sh >> >> ############ >> #!/bin/bash >> export DISPLAY=:1 >> Xmir $DISPLAY >> --desktop_file_hint=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/$1.desktop & >> sleep 0.5 >> fluxbox & >> $1 $2 & >> xvkbd -geometry 540x320+0+550 -compact >> ########### >> >> Note: xvkbd without & is intended. In this way you can close / kill the >> session by closing xvkbd. Furthermore, up to now xvkbd is only show in >> portrait mode correctly. >> >> * Make the programstarter.sh script executable >> sudo chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/programstarter.sh >> >> * Create a desktop file, so that you can start your favorite >> application. >> >> ~/.local/share/application/dillo.desktop >> >> ################################## >> [Desktop Entry] >> GenericName=Web Browser >> Name=Dillo >> Comment=Lightweight browser >> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml; >> Exec=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/programstarter.sh dillo >> Terminal=false >> Type=Application >> Categories=Network;WebBrowser; >> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/dillo.png >> X-Ubuntu-Touch=true >> #################################### >> >> ~/.local/share/application/firefox.desktop >> >> ################################## >> [Desktop Entry] >> Version=1.0 >> Name=Firefox Web Browser >> Comment=Browse the World Wide Web >> GenericName=Web Browser >> Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer >> >> Keywords[de]=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer;Webseite;Site;surfen;online;browsen >> Exec=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/programstarter.sh firefox >> Terminal=false >> Type=Application >> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png >> Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser; >> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml >> +xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf >> +xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http >> StartupNotify=true >> X-Ubuntu-Touch=true >> #################################### >> >> ~/.local/share/application/chromium.desktop >> >> ################################## >> [Desktop Entry] >> GenericName=Web Browser >> Name=Chromium >> Comment=Heavyweight browser >> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml; >> Exec=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/programstarter.sh >> chromium-browser >> Terminal=false >> Type=Application >> Categories=Network;WebBrowser; >> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/chromium-browser.png >> X-Ubuntu-Touch=true >> #################################### >> >> * Reload your apps in the scope by choosing a sub category like >> communication and then select all apps in your app scope again. >> You can now try out your favorite graphical apps. >> >> ############ >> Conclusion: >> ############ >> >> Dillo and Firefox are working fine and look nice. However, touch >> support for scrolling is missing. So they show some ugly scroll bars. >> Moreover, watching a Youtube video with Firefox results in a black >> screen and I hear only the audio. Either some codecs are missing or the >> CPU load is too heavy and the GPU is not used. >> Furthermore, the WebRTC functionality in Firefox is not working. I can >> choose Firefox Hello, nonetheless, neither my video nor my audio is >> transmitted. >> Does anybody know which codecs are missing? >> >> Since everything besides of that seems to work in Firefox, I honestly do >> not understand, why Canonical is not trying to adopt the Firefox browser >> instead of developing its own. From my experience one only needs an >> addon which hides some ui parts like the additional settings, changes >> the zoom and so on while using a small screen and which unhides this >> parts and changes the page zoom if one switches to a larger screen. Or >> at least it seems to me that convergence is not far away by such an >> approach. >> Maybe someone has an idea how to write such an addon? >> >> In Chromium the WebRTC functionality seems to work, so one could use >> this for a VOIP. However, the UI font size is so big that Chromium is >> not useable in the moment. >> Does anybody has an idea, how one could change the UI font size? >> >> Exists another WebRTC client which is available as an armhf package and >> which I could try out? Having WebRTC working on my Ubuntu Phone is a big >> point on my priority list. >> >> In the future it would be awesome, if one could use the native Ubuntu >> Touch virtual keyboard and does not have to rely on xvkbd. >> I also get the following error message in the terminal if I invoke >> Firefox directly by typing ./programstarter.sh firefox : >> >> Need more recent mir for cursor support! >> >> So it seems a newer XMir version is needed to get the Multitouch and the >> Ubuntu Touch virtual keyboard and some other stuff working. >> Does anybody know if there is an updated package? >> >> >> ############## >> Further Tweaks >> ############## >> >> * If you need more space on your system partition and only need english >> and german language support, you can try to remove the following >> packages to get roughly 100 MB freed (Note: This is without warranty): >> >> hunspell-fr hunspell-fr-classical hunspell-hu hunspell-ru hunspell-sr >> hunspell-sv-se language-pack-touch-ast language-pack-touch-bg >> language-pack-touch-bs language-pack-touch-ca language-pack-touch-cs >> language-pack-touch-da language-pack-touch-el language-pack-touch-es >> language-pack-touch-eu language-pack-touch-fi language-pack-touch-fr >> language-pack-touch-gd language-pack-touch-gl language-pack-touch-he >> language-pack-touch-hu language-pack-touch-id language-pack-touch-it >> language-pack-touch-ja language-pack-touch-ko language-pack-touch-lt >> language-pack-touch-lv language-pack-touch-ms language-pack-touch-nb >> language-pack-touch-nl language-pack-touch-oc language-pack-touch-pl >> language-pack-touch-pt language-pack-touch-ro language-pack-touch-ru >> language-pack-touch-sk language-pack-touch-sl language-pack-touch-sr >> language-pack-touch-sv language-pack-touch-tr language-pack-touch-ug >> language-pack-touch-uk language-pack-touch-zh-hans >> language-pack-touch-zh-hant myspell-ca myspell-cs myspell-es myspell-he >> myspell-hr myspell-it myspell-nl myspell-pl myspell-pt myspell-pt-br >> myspell-pt-pt ubuntu-keyboard-arabic ubuntu-keyboard-azerbaijani >> ubuntu-keyboard-bosnian ubuntu-keyboard-catalan >> ubuntu-keyboard-chinese-pinyin ubuntu-keyboard-croatian >> ubuntu-keyboard-czech ubuntu-keyboard-danish ubuntu-keyboard-dutch >> ubuntu-keyboard-finnish ubuntu-keyboard-french ubuntu-keyboard-hebrew >> ubuntu-keyboard-hungarian ubuntu-keyboard-italian ubuntu-keyboard-polish >> ubuntu-keyboard-portuguese ubuntu-keyboard-russian >> ubuntu-keyboard-serbian ubuntu-keyboard-spanish ubuntu-keyboard-swedish >> >> * The fluxbox UI shows the number of workspaces and the date, so that >> the program icons are quite small. I changed this by adjusting the >> following toolbar settings in ~/.fluxbox/init >> >> session.screen0.toolbar.tools: prevwindow, nextwindow, iconbar, >> systemtray >> session.screen0.workspaces: 1 >> >> * Change xkvbd to german or other keyboard layout >> Change the following line in /etc/X11/app-default/XVkbd >> >> #include "XVkbd-german" >> >> >> >> Thanks to all developers for the fantastic work and keep going!!! >> >> Best regards, >> >> Marco >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp