Finally have a fantastic setup for my surface to act as a tablet. the extension Touchup is doing some heavy lifting for usability. apps are: files, Riff, Librewolf, Voyager. Heres more screenshots.
Edit: i forgot to show some portrait screenshots! Ill grab some when i get a min!
i tried to post a video of my osk but it wouldnt work. here is the link to imgur.
gnome osk the osk was acting crazy while was recording. it doesnt act like that normally.
Wow this looks really nice!
I’ve tried KDE and Cosmic, but Gnome+extensions is my favorite DE by far. It’s 99% of the time perfect😅
What's the OS?
Also, good work finding the one place I think gnome fits
I'm generally a KDE guy but this is clean af
Very nice!! I haven't looked at Surface support in a while. How well does the pen work?
Are you using linux-surface or have their patches been upstreamed to mainline now? I have a surface pro 6 I was running fedora on & haven't touched in a few years. Curious as to the current status
I ran Debian on one of the surface pros a few years ago. It took a bit of hardware hacking, but it was great.
I use a TWM and spend most of my time in the shell, so I didn't get to utilize a lot of the OS features. But things like reading comics, and surfing the web were pretty cool.
I always wondered if Gnome would be a better interface for it. It seems like they've been leaning that direction for a while.
Damn, this looks clean.
Is that what gnomes dock looks like, these days? I like it.
This isn't helping my desire to pick up a Surface for Linux-noodling...
yovday
Looks nice though, and it's cool how well Linux works for touchscreens these days.
Do your cameras work? Partially? Completely? I have a ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 2 that has similar hardware to some Surface devices but I just can't get the cameras to work. I tried all of the libcamera stuff and no dice.
What are you using the put the window title in the top panel?
like a tablet
Very nice!
What's the home page you are using on librewolf and can you share the CSS you used to make buttons bigger?
I like the look and usability for a tablet but hate everything behind the surface in Gnome. Any standalone launcher that works like Gnomes?
How's the battery health on that bad boy? It's like 7ish years old and you can't change batteries without basically destroying the screen which is the most expensive part.
What is that spotify client
did you have to install treibers manuell? for touch and pen?
i used to run a heavily customized GNOME, but the frustration of plugins sometimes taking weeks to update to new versions eventually made me return to a very vanilla environment. Even more annoying was when plugins would get abandoned and just stop updating to new versions. The game of plugin roulette every update was just too much
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