Okay, maybe not so dull, but it was more hoops than I figured I’d have to jump through, but I finally got the basics all set up and working!

🐧

Edit: I basically followed this guide:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

Plus, if you don’t have an external keyboard, I highly suggest the Hackers Keyboard app.

Edit 2, some semi quick testing…

  • Synaptic ✅
  • Firefox ✅
  • GIMP ✅
  • VLC ✅
  • gedit ✅
  • ghex ✅
  • LibreOffice 🚫
  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    4·
    10 days ago

    why not termux-x11?

    by using it i could use my galaxy tab like a laptop woth some weird *nix variant. i could run libreoffice using proot (debian) as well. graphics accel didn’t work because mine was an exynos but it wasn’t a big issue for me, was able to play 720p videos in mpv without any issues.

    the lack of packages in official termux repo was a bit tiring tho, had to ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX; make; make install far too many times. and they don’t ship firefox esr and only have the latest.