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Gemini PDA - Linux / Testing TP2

« on: March 25, 2019, 03:42:35 pm »

A year ago I did a lot of testing on my gemini linux device and finally left it alone, because it did not work for the (very limited) use case I need it for. After a year I had some spare time and blew the dust from my gemini. The good news is that I made some progress and have more hope to use the gemini for my daily life. I want to use the gemini just offline and sync it with my desktop while being at home:
- agenda, contacts, tasks
- notes taking and text editing
- basic (osm) maps (foxtrotgps seems to fit the bill)
- music listening
- reading and annotating books and articles
Syncing is really a pain in the arse. Many progs don't like interference with their data from external systems. Other programs (like evolution) just refuse to work if there is no connection with a (caldev or carddev) server. I finallly found some very down to earth progs which just take what they are offered as data (calcurse, abook, wikidpad) and I succesfully using them for a while now. But I still have quite a few hick-ups which I hope you can help me with. I have TP2 installed and as far as I know I installed everything like I should. I did not use the flashtool to make a new image. Just upgraded from TP1. My main problem is that lock-on-close-lid is not working. I made sure 'enable lid watcher' is off as I understand it would interfere with 'xss-lock gemian-lock'. Another thing is that brightness is not working (not by 'Lxqt settings', nor by using Fn-N/Fn-B ). It used to work, I am not aware to have changed something.

If someone can give me hints I would very much like to hear.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / speaker sound not turned off when headset connected

« on: June 30, 2018, 10:34:46 am »

For my ears the sound of the device is nice enough. So it would be nice to use the gemian als my daily music player. If I connect headphones to the device both the headphones and the speakers on the device give sound. I don't see any settings on the desktop to make the sound on the speakers turned off if the headphones are connected. Is there a way to organize this ?

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Gemini PDA - Linux / 2% power drain per hour on a sleeping device is not acceptable

« on: June 29, 2018, 01:56:16 pm »

I tested quite a few times now, but if I leave the device in suspend mode overnight it still drains the battery with 2% / hour. I made sure that wifi and bluetooth both where off. I am very curious what other people's experiences on this are. Adam Boardman wrote anywhere that he experiences 2% drain on a full night. What can I do to achieve a better power management on my device ?

[Update]
If I do suspend via the menu 'Start/Leave/Suspend' I get a subscreen asking

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Do you want really to suspend your computer?
Suspends the computer into a low power state. System state is not preserved isf the power is lostWhen I confirm this the screen turns black. I can reactivate the screen by pressing Esc. I then get a wordmap with yellow bubbles. While I write my password I get a green circle in the middle turning red if I type wrong and blue if I type right. It finally brings me back to the desktop. Desktops opens with a subscreen message

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An error occurred starting screensaver. Action 'activate' faild. Ensure you haave xscreensaver installed and running.After I confirmed desktop works fine again.

I presume the 'suspend' of my system is a real 'suspend' but I don't know for sure. How can I know if suspend really suspends ?