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Aral Balkan

Oooh, ooh, ooh… look what just arrived! I’ve been waiting almost a year for it and boy was it worth the wait. My new Linux laptop is a… tablet? Yep. The StarLabs StarLite.

Oh and the screen on this thing! 😍

ie.starlabs.systems/pages/star

A box for a rectangular object that looks like a tablet.
Sideways view of box showing a wireframe in silver of the side of the tablet that’s in it with power and volume buttons showing, as well as a camera protruding from the bottom.
A rectangular object wrapped in a blue case with the StarLabs logo (a three point star with three additional, disjointed arms/points).
A white hand holding a tablet in portrait orientation with my web site (https://ar.al) on it. In the background is a desk, a stack of laptops, a leg wearing jeans, and a lego keyboard, partially visible.
#linux#tablet#StarLabs
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Aral Balkan

So, first issue, popovers (eg., drop-down menus, app menus, etc.) don’t work on GTK 4 apps (like System Settings in GNOME) on touchscreen devices.

Three-year old bug here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/

I guess that means tablets are not currently supported under GNOME.

Will see if KDE Plasma works on touchscreen Linux tablets.

*sigh!*

Update: Issue fixed in GNOME. Works in latest Fedora (tested w. Silverblue). Ubuntu doesn’t. HT @sonny

GitLabCannot Open (GTK4) Popovers With Touch-Only Input (#1523) · Issues · GNOME / mutter · GitLab Steps to reproduce Have a touchscreen device (tested on a laptop, Dell XPS 13 9370) Using touch-only input,...
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rsp

@aral This may reveal my ignorance, but can Windows or MacOS be installed and run on a tablet? Or do tablets have to run a tablet-specific OS?

Jun 17, 2024, 07:43 PM·Public·Phanpy
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Aral Balkan

@rspfau Not that you should install Windows on anything but Microsoft have Surface tablets that run some mutation of the OS. You’d likely have issues just installing stock Windows on a tablet. (See first point.) MacOS is proprietary as all fuck so, no, it won’t run on anything but a Mac without much hackery (but Apple will happily sell you an iPad).

Both GNOME and Plasma, however, follow a responsive approach and support touch so they will run on tablets like this one. (To various degrees.)

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