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Re: Termux

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Post by mrsssnake »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #39
firecall wrote: post #34

There’s an app called Termux in the iOS App Store, but I’m guessing it’s not the same thing?

no, it's not, termux requires low level access to the OS that iOS protects against.

No, it does not have any more access than any other app, as it work on unrooted devices too.

That said, it has to be compiled for older Android SDK level because newer levels prevent apps to run executables they downloaded on their own and not bundle with the APK, even isolated. Android may disable compatibility with the older SDK some day but for now it works.

Re: Termux

#52

Post by genezeta »

bluebarbet wrote: post #26

Honest question, as a heavy desktop TUI user who has had Termux installed for years. A terminal (emulator) is a keyboard-based environment. How on earth are all you fans making it work with a tiny touchscreen?

Portable Bluetooth keyboard.

Re: Termux

#53

Post by dotancohen »

bluebarbet wrote: post #26

Honest question, as a heavy desktop TUI user who has had Termux installed for years. A terminal (emulator) is a keyboard-based environment. How on earth are all you fans making it work with a tiny touchscreen?

I often use a Bluetooth keyboard with Termux. But as a mechanical keyboard affectionate with a veritable museum of ergonomic and mechanical keyboards, the Samsung S-Pen is good enough for terminal work. I use SSH, VIM, and lately Org mode in Termux. If I'm at a desk I still use a Bluetooth keyboard, but if I'm out then the S-Pen is a fine enough substitute.

Right now I'm on an S24 Ultra, before that a Note 10 Lite, and before that another Note 10 Lite.

Re: Termux

#54

Post by ce4 »

I use it for lots of stuff, remote scanning from an old Canon flatbed scanner attached to my NAS (powered by a really ugly phone-local bash script, nothing else), rsync, renames (or the like using one liners), ssh tunnels to different destinations (to circumvent IP blockages) and of course YT downloads (using the source git folder and running it using "python -m yt_dlp $OPTIONS $URL" - when it breaks, a git pull is all it needs most of the time, I also have local patches that are not upstreamed)

Re: Termux

#55

Post by thekoma »

Rygian wrote: post #43

My usecase for Termux: most pictures get backed up properly into the home NAS, but the sync process sometimes skips a few [1] (which is exasperating, but here we are still not migrated to Immich). So I have a python script in the NAS that calculates the MD5 checksum of every photo and video, and generates a shell script that, when executed on the phone, will calculate the MD5 on the local device, and delete if it is…

How come you don’t just send the md5s to delete rather than the shell script?

Re: Termux

#57

Post by vasco »

thekoma wrote: post #55
Rygian wrote: post #43

My usecase for Termux: most pictures get backed up properly into the home NAS, but the sync process sometimes skips a few [1] (which is exasperating, but here we are still not migrated to Immich). So I have a python script in the NAS that calculates the MD5 checksum of every photo and video, and generates a shell script that, when executed on the phone, will calculate the MD5 on the local device, and delete if it is…

How come you don’t just send the md5s to delete rather than the shell script?

I guess it's a more flexible design that allows to change the criteria for deletions in the future. You still need to calculate md5s on the phone either way.

Re: Termux

#58

Post by cess11 »

harvie wrote: post #50
cfiggers wrote: post #16

Termux is the first app I install on every Android device I get my hands on. It's astonishingly capable. I have a Bluetooth keyboard case for my Android tablet. All the time, I use Termux to ssh into my Linux machine over my home network and code on it in Neovim from my couch. I don't bother with the default notes app on my phone. Termux + Neovim running vimwiki and syncing to a private GitHub repo is way better. Mos…

I beleive Android 16 now comes with termux-like Linux environment that can be enabled via developer settings menu.

Even more reason to keep supporting Termux.

Re: Termux

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Post by boneitis »

Another nifty utility to use in tandem is scrcpy[0].

Inside or outside of Termux, it allows you to interact with your android device in general from the comfort of your main computer/laptop over ADB.

It becomes a super multiplier for Termux when I don't want to deal with the hassle of connecting a separate keyboard to my android phone/tablet.

(A heads up, I have to use the `--render-driver=software` switch in order for scrcpy to work at all on my laptop.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrcpy

Re: Termux

#60

Post by cess11 »

bluebarbet wrote: post #26

Honest question, as a heavy desktop TUI user who has had Termux installed for years. A terminal (emulator) is a keyboard-based environment. How on earth are all you fans making it work with a tiny touchscreen?

I use PentiKeyboard, it can send basically all the byte sequences I'm accustomed to having available plus it has a shortcut for sending ctrl+b to tmux.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.software_la...

Either that or I connect a wireless physical keyboard.

Edit: The killer feature of Penti is that it is transparent and allows you to put the 'buttons' where it is convenient to place the fingertips. Unlike regular software keyboards which hide half the screen and have 'buttons' that are pretty much thumbs-only. Since I code a lot I'm not particularly keen on mainstream next-word-guessing either.

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