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rvdleun / onoffice

The open-source Virtual Office, powered by WebVR

https://onoffice.app

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Linux support #1

Closed rvdleun closed 5 years ago

rvdleun commented 5 years ago

Goal

To get On/Office running on a Linux distro.

Description

The application is built with Electron, so should technically be portable to Linux. I haven't had fully time to explore how to handle this, and the one time I tried to run On/Office in a virtual Ubuntu environment led to a number of errors.

I also don't have enough experience with building applications for Linux, in particular with different distros. Most of my experience comes from Ubuntu, and I don't know how big the differences are to release the application on several distros.

Will likely need some help here or research more into it.

Deliverables

To get On/Office working on a single distro. Personal preference is Ubuntu, but any will do for a start.
Clear instructions on how to build and deploy a Linux package.

Kilian commented 5 years ago

The app runs on ubuntu and i managed to get it streaming to my oculus go!

There seems to be some issue with storing the pin number
It spends a lot of time on "requesting virtual cursor"
there are a number of 400 websocket errors, though I don't know if this is an issue

rvdleun commented 5 years ago

That's really good news. Did you have to install anything specifically, or did it just work out of the box?

There seems to be some issue with storing the pin number Hmm, I wonder if it has issues storing any data overall. If you change the background image and reload the app, does it persist the image?
It spends a lot of time on "requesting virtual cursor" This reminds me of a different bug(which I should add to the issues list) and I wonder if it's related.

The bug is as follows: If you have multiple monitors, then it will keep waiting until you've moved the cursor over the streaming monitor. Did this happen by any chance?

there are a number of 400 websocket errors, though I don't know if this is an issue Hmm, I'm not sure if I've seen this before. So far, it's not causing any errors?

Kilian commented 5 years ago

The image does not persist either.
That's probably it! I'll try it later.
Not that I can tell.

rvdleun commented 5 years ago

So... ahem, it seems that there was a bug where the image wasn't actually retrieved from storage, so that feature wasn't working on any of the platforms. Just committed a fix(https://github.com/rvdleun/onoffice/commit/2c4377432417bfe289748bb1991743afb9f02745) and new builds were created. I'm going to see if it is fixed for Windows and Mac, and will likely do a 1.0.1 release during the weekend. (after removing the console messages)

If you have the time, could you download the new Linux build and see if the background image now persists?

rvdleun commented 5 years ago

Just did some testing in VirtualBox, and everything seems to be in working order. The background image and pincode persisted over time as well. I just may release an Ubuntu version this weekend.

rvdleun commented 5 years ago

Just release version 1.1.0, along with a Linux version. Seems to work in my VirtualBox environment. 🤞