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[[File:Asus flo hildon.jpg|thumb|Hildon on the [[Google Nexus 7 2013 (asus-flo)|Nexus 7 2013]] with postmarketOS]]


This is the desktop from Maemo, which is a Debian-based distribution, that originally ran on the N900.<br />
This is the UI from [[Maemo]] Fremantle, which is a Debian-based distribution that originally ran on the Nokia N900. postmarketOS had an incomplete and not well maintained Hildon port based on the Maemo Leste sources, until April of 2020. It was removed as several features were missing, broken, and we could not upgrade it without investing much time to resolve packaging conflicts.
We do not have a <code>postmarketos-ui-hildon</code> yet (but that should be easy to make, look at <code>postmarketos-ui-weston</code> for reference if you're interested, dear reader).


=== Installation instructions ===
The Maemo Leste project runs Hildon on top of a recent Devuan (Debian fork) with OpenRC (same init system as Alpine), and all the devices they are targeting run the mainline kernel (Droid 4, N900, N9, ...). So for anybody who wants to run Hildon, check out '''[https://maemo-leste.github.io/ Maemo Leste].'''


In <code>pmbootstrap init</code>, select <code>hildon</code> as user interface, then do the installation as usually. When running postmarketOS, it should boot automatically into Hildon now!
If somebody is willing to invest a lot of time for a new postmarketOS port of Hildon/Maemo Leste, let us know in the issues!


=== Running ===
== See also ==
{{note|These instructions are outdated, as we have <code>postmarketos-ui-hildon</code> now. Please adjust as necessary, then remove this note.}}
* {{issue|373|pmaports}} Dropping Hildon unless a maintainer steps up
 
* [https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/106245fbc81c54db8b9715d27d594e74a00a661d/maemo maemo in pmaports tree before it was removed]
hildon-desktop can be run in a horizontal view only so create a <code>~/.xinitrc</code> with the following contents:
* {{MR|461}} (initial PR by NotKit with a screenshot running in QEMU)
 
* https://github.com/fremantle-gtk3 (interesting WIP GTK+3 port)
<pre>
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
    eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
xrandr -o left
xinput set-prop 'Your touchscreen name' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix' 0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
exec hildon-desktop
</pre>
'Your touchscreen name' should be your touchscreen name. You can find out your touchscreen name by running <code>sudo libinput list-devices</code>. hildon-desktop can then be started by running <code>startx</code>. To run programs you need to <code>export DISPLAY=:0</code>. To set it by default edit <code>sudo nano /etc/profile</code>.
 
=== Rotate screen when using ''fbdev'' driver ===
 
In order to rotate the screen when using the framebuffer, you need to create this file:
 
'''/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/1-fbdev.conf'''
<pre>
Section "Device"
  Identifier "LCD"
  Driver "fbdev"
  Option "Rotate" "CW"
EndSection
</pre>
 
reference: https://www.x.org/archive//X11R6.8.0/doc/fbdev.4.html
 
=== WIP: Possible fix for performance problems ===
Hildon renders everything on the GPU, which is terribly slow when we have to resort to software rendering. At least on the N900 it looks like a slideshow. The GTK+3 version won't improve this, as it also uses Clutter for rendering. However, we should be able to improve the situation by replacing the OpenGL stuff, that mesa currently handles, with a faster software implementation from [https://github.com/lunixbochs/tinygles TinyGLES] and related libraries.
 
<pre>
Current stack:
(hardware) - mesa - cogl - clutter - hildon
 
New stack:
(hardware) - tinygles - glshim - cogl - clutter - hildon
</pre>
 
It makes sense to run cogl demos with tinygles before trying anything hildon or clutter related, as Clutter depends on cogl.
 
More information:
* [https://github.com/lunixbochs/glshim glshim]
* [https://github.com/lunixbochs/tinygles/issues/9 Asking upstream if this is possible]
* [https://github.com/lunixbochs/tinygles/issues/10 Unable to run hildon-desktop: Failed to create texture 2d due to size/format constraints]
* [https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/glshim.69736/ Pandora thread about glshim] (contains debug environment variables etc!)
 
=== See also ===
 
* https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/461 (initial PR by NotKit with a screenshot running in Qemu)
* https://github.com/fremantle-gtk3 (GTK+3 port, which we could package in the future)

Latest revision as of 13:32, 4 November 2024

Hildon
Hildon running in QEMU
Hildon running in QEMU
Name Hildon
Graphics stack X11
Toolkit GTK+2
In postmarketOS
Package N/A
Status Unavailable
Hildon on the Nexus 7 2013 with postmarketOS

This is the UI from Maemo Fremantle, which is a Debian-based distribution that originally ran on the Nokia N900. postmarketOS had an incomplete and not well maintained Hildon port based on the Maemo Leste sources, until April of 2020. It was removed as several features were missing, broken, and we could not upgrade it without investing much time to resolve packaging conflicts.

The Maemo Leste project runs Hildon on top of a recent Devuan (Debian fork) with OpenRC (same init system as Alpine), and all the devices they are targeting run the mainline kernel (Droid 4, N900, N9, ...). So for anybody who wants to run Hildon, check out Maemo Leste.

If somebody is willing to invest a lot of time for a new postmarketOS port of Hildon/Maemo Leste, let us know in the issues!

See also