LocalSend on Pocket?

MNT Pocket Reform
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I’m trying to get LocalSend on all my devices, and wonder if anyone has gotten that running on the Pocket Reform. When I launch it from the pre-built package, I get a message: “Unable to Create GL Context.”

I can pull code and poke at it another day, but if someone has already looked at it, I’ve got plenty of other projects in the queue.

The release I grabbed is at https://github.com/localsend/localsend/releases/download/v1.17.0/LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-arm-64.deb

More information at https://localsend.org/

Thanks!

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You could try running the program with these environment variables set:

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.2 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=420

Or when super desperate with software rendering:

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
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Cool tool, which I didn’t know by now. Installed and it worked out of the box - on Pocket rk3588 / standard debian though.

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Thanks, @josch!

Yeah, it’s a handy tool. Apple’s AirDrop, but for all the other platforms, which as I’m moving away from Apple stuff, is handy functionality that I’m used to.

I probably use it a dozen times a day to get a URL from one machine to another, or copy an SSH key around, or whatever.

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I’m unsure where the best place to set those are so they don’t apply to any other apps (and do apply to /usr/share/localsend_app ). Someplace in .config, or is there a way to set an application-specific variable in /usr/share/gdm/… ?

On the command-line, I’m fine, but rusty. Still learning my way around these new-fangled graphical desktops.

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I think, you should roughly write a wrapper that sets the environment @josch suggested and execs localsend:

#!/bin/bash
export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.2
export MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=420
exec /usr/bin/localsend_app

For example create a dir ~/bin/wrapper and do:

joe ~/bin/wrapper/localsend-wrapper

…joe is my fav editor, put in your code and save it by ctl+k x in case you use joe. Then make the script executable:

chmod +x ~/bin/wrapper/localsend-wrapper

You can execute your script from a terminal window. You then may write a gnome starter to lauch your wrapper from the gnome dock.

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Yes, you can write a wrapper script as @habasud suggests but before you do it, you may want to verify that these environment variables actually fix your problem.

You can run a command with a certain set of environment variables set either by running:

FOO=bar myprogram

Which will run myprogram with FOO set to bar or you use the env command which allows you a bit more control over the environment your program runs in like so:

env FOO=bar myprogram

I’d experiment with the environment variables I suggested on the terminal until you find a combination that works. Maybe they do not make a difference at all.

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I just tried installing this on a Reform (not IMX based tho) and it installed and ran perfectly. I installed through flatpack as listed on LocalSend - Downloads tho instead of the .deb

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Hadn’t gotten to this until today, but I uninstalled using apt, and reinstalled using both the “software” app and using flatpak directly, and I still get the “Unable to create a GL context”

I’m sure there’s some clever way to set the environment variables for flatpak-installed apps (the man page points me to /etc/flatpak, which doesn’t exist), but I’m not half clever-enough to find it.

Note that however LocalSend got installed, it’s not in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or any other path in my $PATH, so I’m not sure where to poke. “which localsend” and “which localsend_app” both come up empty.

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did you install and set up flatpak first?

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Yes, but just with the default “install flatpak” instructions.