PineNote Development/Apps
Development
Here are some resources I have found helpful in learning to develop on embedded Linux devices:
- Great YouTube series introducing you to the kernel and lower-level components of Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZ05pnHZqM
- https://embetronicx.com/
- https://bootlin.com/training/
- https://www.nand2tetris.org
Emulator recommendation for developing and testing PineNote apps: https://github.com/michaelshiel/picom-epaper
App support on PineNote
The PineNote is a specialized device. Finding and configuring apps that work well will require a lot of tweaking and a lot exploring. Here is a video showing the performance of a few applications.
Desktop Environments
Sway
Getting touch + pen working on sway
If you notice that touching the screen works, but when you use the pen the mouse coordinates are inverted, don't worry! We can fix it! Set rockchip_ebc.panel_reflection=0 on boot (see this page for more info). Add the following line to your sway config:
# This line rotates the mouse input by 180 degrees. See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.11.3/absolute_axes.html input "type:table_tool" calibration_matrix -1 0 1 0 -1 1
Gnome
Notetaking
xournal++
Works well, writing is pretty quick.
Obsidian
Works well, EInk-Theme can be found here.
Web Browsing
Firefox
Pretty good experience! Enabling GPU acceleration is helpful.
GPU Acceleration in Firefox
See 0ccam's notes here.