I think my smartphone has a 5.1_inch display.
I mostly use Android apps, of course, on my Samsung Galaxy S7. But I do run
GNURoot-Debian for the following applications and don't use any andoid app for
these:
: ssh
: scp
: sftp
: Reluctanly, I use it" for access to my comcast.net-sited "email". (It's
better than nothing when you didn't bring your laptop with you).
[Note: add your favorite computers' IP addresses to GNURoot-path
/etc/hosts--Android seems to not do DNS well--at least within GNURoot?!]
So I use GNURoot for all file transfers to/from my {laptop, desktop} from/to my
< allegedly smart >-phone, and SSH-ing.
And that is mostly it. I can, however, put a few of my relative seldom used
homebrewed C programs on it, if I find they're at all useful (and they can't
do X11...). I just haven't got around to it yet.
Plus, I'm planning on putting a bunch of data on the smarty-pants-phone
so I have that data at my fingertips. Haven't got around to this, either, yet.
Lastly, I can also ssh to my desktop (typically the laptop isn't "on" 24 hours
but the desktop is) if I don't have my laptop with me, I can still get access
to my desktop-Linux/GNU-Box for, say, a file or a line of information from a
file.
And, I have a crude app to get my POP3 email on my desktop to send the HTML
version of the email to the phone so I can read it. I did this with mutt,
and liberal use of nc (nc is netcat) in /bin/sh scripts.
Of course all of this stinks, because the keyboard has to be so small.
But it works well enough.
I did once figure out how to make my Linux laptop act as a Bluetooth keyboard,
but unfortunately I didn't write the procedure down. I am interested in trying
it again soon, however, because of another problem, namely, I'm all over on
communications and it is **all** done in my smartphone (the communicator).
So a real keyboard would make it much easier to write messages, emails,
even a GNURoot session.
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 12:45:29AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Steve. I'll be giving it a try, too.
>
> Yeah, a 1920x1080 smartphone could be hard on the eyes, to say the
> least. Maybe it's a little easier on a Fire HD 8. Also, you can
> usually change fonts and icon sizes in Linux, so that could help.
>
> I'm thinking of using VNCviewer on it. Have any of you ever done that?
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote:
> > Oh man, it pains me to think of using a terminal on a smartphone for anything
> > more than one command! My eyes would totally suck at this, as would my fingers.
> >
> > It did help to be able to SSH to my iphone and do some tweaking from a proper
> > system when I had to.
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