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.
Very nice!! I haven’t looked at Surface support in a while. How well does the pen work?
Perfectly! I havent looked into customizing the button functions yet but pen works and writes.
What’s the OS?
Also, good work finding the one place I think gnome fits
Ultramarine Linux. It has a surface OS variant and its built on fedora. Its pretty good.
Super cool goal they’re achieving, installing this on my OG Surface Laptop. Thanks for making me aware of this.
You can also use most any distro you want using Linux-surface kernel
Thanks for sharing .
You gotta show off the onscreen keyboard and a *fetch to make the show complete
Edit: and post to one of the unixporn Comms. !unixporn@lemmy.ml
Oh man i forgot about Fetch!
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😅
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.
What are you using the put the window title in the top panel?
I’ll give it a look when i get back. Its JUST below the sa ted extensions above 😂
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
The OS variant i use uses the Linux-surfacekernel. I dont think they are upstream yet.
so … which distro are you using? I’ve been using a Surface Pro 9 with Fedora 44 and the linux-surface kernel and supporting packages installed on top. I’ve been annoyed with sleep/wake overall (it often doesn’t wake and I have to hold the power button and force a reboot).
I hear that sleep/wake has been an issue for a lot of surface devices. Mine is fine at wake/sleep but think its draining the battery while suspended.
yeah, honestly it makes no sense for this to be an issue. Like I can kinda get it if I’m doing things like unplugging the dock quick connect cable and attaching the type cover keyboard and then trying to wake and it freaks out and needs a reboot. But to be totally unresponsive until a hard power reset even without doing those things is just crazy.
Mine is ,like i said, fine. Def had a hiccup or two while playing with this.
https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/25591079
Ultramarine
Is that what gnomes dock looks like, these days? I like it.
Very nice!
like a tablet
I basically don’t use my keyboard anymore. Its a tablet all the way.
