I didn't understand this: "I'm all over on communications and it is **all** done in my smartphone (the communicator)." At first I thought you were talking about a specific app, but maybe you just mean that you communicate a lot through your phone. So you need to use it for email and stuff, which means typing a lot with the phone. Have you tried buying a portable bluetooth keyboard? Example: Closed size: 5.8" x 3.6" x 0.7", Open Size: 9.9" x 3.5" x 0.2" https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Keyboard-Portable-Keyboards-Smartphone/dp/B00WSL8FH4/ I don't know if that one is better than any of the others. A few are compared in a table -- scroll down to see it. Mike On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net> wrote: > 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. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > Name: Steve Trapp > Location: Just east of the Missippi River > Email-address: stevetrapp<AT>comcast<DOT>net > Homepage: comcast DROPPED ALL HOMEPAGES--Where do I put my PGP public key now? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list