[Linux-aus] Screen/keyboard/touchpad for server maintenance

[Russell Coker]

On Saturday, 29 November 2025 22:02:30 AEDT Les Kitchen via linux-aus wrote:
> That reminded me, yes, that I also have been using my Crowview
> Note for that "convergence" setup, phone as laptop, with
> Pinephone, Pinephone Pro and Librem-5.  I haven't been doing it
> much — normally when I want to do stuff on a phone from a
> laptop-like setup, I'll ssh in or use VNC or similar from a real
> laptop — but it does work pretty well.  While I guess it
> theoretically should work via a single USB-C cable, as I
> recollect I've had to do it via a USB-C docking bar or similar,

My recollection is that I had a PinePhone working on a single USB-C cable to a 
DisplayMate portable monitor for display and touch screen.

Now I have misplaced the DisplayMate display and I've got a PinePhone 
connected to a MiraBook and it's doing what you report.  I'l have a play with 
that.  I'd like to show that working on a PinePhone and MiraBook at EO2026.

> running power and HDMI and USB cables.  One minor gripe is that
> while Phosh (which is what I use mostly on all phones, with
> Mobian) works nicely on a mobile phone, the swiping actions are
> not so convenient with a mouse or trackball (or trackpad) setup.

I would like to have the mobile systems run a different UI when connected to a 
high resolution display.  Samsung devices run "Dex" instead of their usual UI 
when you connect a monitor and there's no reason why we couldn't switch 
between "plasma" and "plasma-mobile" or switch between phosh and the full 
GNOME interface.

> reasons I don't understand, using kgx (which I think is Kings
> Cross terminal emulator) was unbearably slow (on the HDMI

https://wiki.debian.org/MobileApps

kgx is apparently also known as gnome-console.

https://flounder.linux.org.au/joinus/

There's several people in Flounder who are working on such things, you might 
want to join.

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