Earlier this year, I spent a lot of time working through a ton of apps for Ubuntu Touch that were "left behind" on Xenial, and updated them to Focal, and most of those to Noble, for the new UT system. However, one of the apps I really, really wanted to …
A while back, I had made a post about making my own x11vnc service. The service file I made was called /lib/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
[Unit]
Description=x11vnc service
After=display-manager.service network.target syslog.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -forever -create -display :0 -auth <EDITED …
If you've been around my blog for a long while, you may remember my old chess engine I made back in 2019. It was called picoEngine [1] and was written in C++. It wasn't a very good engine, to be honest, mostly making weighted moves, but could handle searching for …
One of the apps I upgraded from Xenial to Focal needed a little bit of attention. Fortunately for me, a fellow Ubuntu Touch enthusiast was quick to help point out some of the bugs/issues with the click, so I had a good idea of where to start looking. The …
One of the things that is a must have for me, when it comes to cell phones and using them, is the ability to print something from my phone. People will email me something, or send me a file in a message that I need to print while I am …
Since Ubuntu Touch has upgraded from Focal to Noble, all of those apps that I updated to Focal have to be updated, again. Fortunately, the process is going fairly quickly, with most apps just requiring minor tweaking here and there to be Noble ready.
I have been going through the …
Now that Ubuntu Touch has upgraded from Focal (20.04) to Noble (24.04) as their base, all of those apps that I updated from Xenial (16.XX) to Focal have to be updated again. Fortunately for me, the list is much shorter this time!
I decided to start with …
As you've already read in previous posts, I switched my blog from Wordpress to Pelican, for a simpler, smoother, static page interface that can still be built in an automated way. One of the cool things about Pelican is that it does allow themes and there are a lot of …
Now that I am done with updating the 199 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I am waiting 7 days for a response from each developer, and then releasing the clicks on the open-store. You can check out the progress table below, but I'm really close to closing out …
I am nearing the end of my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal. All of the apps have been updated that I can update. However, to clarify, that means I have updated them, not that they are released on the open-store yet. You can …