Convertible devices

hlubach

After a long search which linux distro works good enough on a x360 convertible, was the conclusion that Solus Gnome was to prefer above Fedora ,Manjato Ubuntu and Mint gnome .
So now I am running Solus Gnome .
But then I tried also the Solus plasma , it looks very nice in laptop mode but I want also us it in tablet mode .
Is it posible to do this
While plasma is made for the newer devices , do i find it strange that it is not capable to run in a tablet mode.

WetGeek

hlubach While plasma is made for the newer devices , do i find it strange that it is not capable to run in a tablet mode.

For someone who doesn't own an x360 convertible, but who does have multiple Solus Plasma computers, can you explain briefly what's required to work in "tablet mode"? One of my computers - the only one that's not a DELL - is an ACER Travelmate, which has a touch screen. Another is a Dell Latitude that also has a touch screen.

Both of these run spectacularly on Solus Plasma, although I turn off that feature on both of them, because my preference is to use a mouse. What more would a distro need to support in order to qualify for use on a convertible computer?

hlubach

the point is that it not rotate the screen as in a tablet .
so only landscape mode w orks

WetGeek

hlubach the point is that it not rotate the screen as in a tablet .
so only landscape mode works

I'm still pretty confused. Plasma allows the screen to be rotated, but it doesn't force it to be rotated. It allows the screen orientation to be adjusted to your requirements, but once it's been set, changing it would require returning to the system settings to do that. It's not something that would happen without your specific intervention.

Plasma is a huge improvement over the GNOME DE, in many ways, so I'm trying to make sure that you're able to make your decision knowing all the facts. If only GNOME will work for you, so be it.

brent

WetGeek but once it's been set, changing it would require returning to the system settings to do that. It's not something that would happen without your specific intervention.

that's what is sound like to me, too, although I have no idea what a convertible is in this context.

Axios

brent I think he means like my lenovo you fold it back for a tablet on my asus
the keyboard detaches devices like that

I disabled the touch screen on the lenvo never use it as a tablet anyways.

WetGeek

Axios on my asus
the keyboard detaches devices like that maybe

But why would being able to rotate the screen image prevent someone from using Plasma on one of those? Especially since the screen image can be rotated the same way on GNOME, which is the DE that he says would work? It's a puzzle I'm still trying to figure out, because it just doesn't make any sense at all.

Axios

WetGeek I havent tried those flavors budgie worked fine tho I think all Solus should work fine.
I have had a hard time lately with the net lang barrier at times.
The asus has fedora gnome works great on it

WetGeek

Axios I have had a hard time lately with the net lang barrier at times.

No worries. As I pointed out a long time ago, this forum is to me the United Nations of Solus. We have lots of languages here, and most of us are still able to understand everyone, one way or another.

ReillyBrogan

We've been working quite a bit on improving Solus on two-in-one devices. For Plasma I'd recommend installing the sddm-wayland-experimental package, and just generally using Wayland instead of X11. Plasma 6 will come with further improvements to this.

hlubach

ReillyBrogan how to install this package

alfisya

You can open Software Center and search for sddm-wayland-experimental then click install or run this commad from terminal:

sudo eopkg it sddm-wayland-experimental

Then restart. Now wayland session will be available on your login screen. It is usually on bottom left of your login screen thay says "X11". You can click that and choose "Wayland" then login as usual. Cheers!

Note : This instruction is only useful for Solus Plasma, any other edition will not work with it.

hlubach

alfisya Just installed Solus plasma again and wayland was visible on bootom of screen .
but now I face another problem no virtual keyboard
Try to install onboar but then even it doesnt pop up

ReillyBrogan

alfisya You're close, but that package only enables Wayland for SDDM itself (the login greeter that you put your password into). Wayland is always enabled as a separate session when you have Plasma installed.

ReillyBrogan

hlubach the virtual keyboard definitely works on Plasma 6, but unfortunately none of my devices are still on Plasma 5 that I can use to help you troubleshoot why it's not showing up. If it's a convertible device you may need to put it into tablet mode for it to work.

laurker

hlubach The KDE tablet keyboard is called Maliit. It doesn't come pre-installed on all KDE distros, so you may have to look for it. And it doesn't work on the login screen either. Otherwise, KDE (on Wayland) is probably the second-best touchscreen Linux desktop environment. I remember, from trying out Neon and Kubuntu on a tablet, everything being really smooth and the touch experience similar to W10.

alfisya

ReillyBrogan Why a GNOME plebs even answer this🤷 /s