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[Motorola Droid Bionic] JKASS5:
Does anyone have a different link to the webtop patch in the op? It doesn't work for me and I am really interested in using this. Thanks...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cellzealot:
I am using the same mbm.tar.bz that I originally downloaded and keep on my sdcard. It hasn't changed at all and I am currently posting this from the webtop on my Bionic on the .904 leaked update. The update does not touch the webtop partition at all and I am using Nebtop to use any HDMI instead of the hacked apks. Everything is working perfectly including gnome-panel and other mods I made after I updated to .902 are all in place.

You need to remember to run the mount commands after every reboot.

The errors with synaptic are generally due to not having done the mount -o remount,rw / in a terminal before opening the webtop after a reboot.

The post installation trigger manager can't delete files to cleanup after itself unless the root directory is mounted read/write.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] genei.09:
OK, I rebooted and again remounted / without a change. Rebooted again and the sdcard partition didn't load. Rebooted one more time, then verified that the sdcard partition was available, then remounted, then booted webtop. That worked great. Got XFCE, VIM, and OpenOffice to install...however OpenOffice won't start and CLI reports: "terminate called after throwing an instance of com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException" I then tried to install libreoffice but couldn't find the repo for it. Any thoughts?

JKASS5 I downloaded two mbm files.

one from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1500585

and the other from here: http://sandbox.mindcrime.net/?p=137
[Motorola Droid Bionic] genei.09:
ok, fixed openoffice. cli commands to uninstall weren't actually uninstalling, but synaptic did the trick. Last question. Is there a version of chrome that can be installed or is it just chromium that will work?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] squito:
the one you got form my thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1500585 should work that was the one that was from this thread before megaupload went away.

I have never been able to get this one to work. http://sandbox.mindcrime.net/?p=137
[Motorola Droid Bionic] JKASS5:
Awesome thanks squito and genei.09. You guys are awesome.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Pale_Flyer:
is it possible to have the mount command run automatically? i am rooted with Safe Strap, so the rom i plan to use as my daily does not currently support webtop (ics hdmi port thing), so when i do want to use webtop i will reboot, but, i would really love to not have to run that command manually every time.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] fxmech:
Search the app store for "scripter" or "startup scripts". It works much like terminal editor except that you will be running a ".sh" with the custom commands typed out to one or many different files.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] brandonnichols360:
i know this is kinda off topic, but i posted a thread asking what is webtop2sd and what does it do, and what is webuntu, i never got an answer. i tried google searching for ansers but all i find is how to install them. im guessing webuntu is ubuntu, running from an hdmi cord? would someone mind posting screenshots/ pictures please?

thank you.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] cyberhern:
webuntu is ubuntu, running from an osh partition within Android and yes through the HDMI port.

2sdcard is exactly what it implies. The app makes a Linux partition on your sdcard and for all intents and purposes moves the osh partition to the new linux partition on your sdcard. Thereby giving you more space to install Ubuntu software
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Pale_Flyer:
tallnerd1985, if you still look at this thread, you might want to update the instructions for mbm to add an escape command from the /osh partition, as the reboot command does not work in there... goofed something up the first time, and ran "reboot" inside the osh partition, and just did it again, not sure about success yet, but did reboot in osh... got "command not found" or something similar.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Djazin:
Hey I'm running this on my Atrix with a swaped out Webtop for the Bionic WT-1.3.0-105_DNB-1 I managed to get the patch in there but the sources seem dead for apt-get update can some one help me out on this I'm working on porting webtops across all Gingerbread Motorola Phones and have made alot of head way.

Pretty much looking for the working sources.list for 10.10.

update: nvm created a new working list
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nitephlight:
given that the atrix 4g has kernel flashing and such, using the bionic WT wouldnt be as much a problem.. IMO seems like the phones with the "secret" GSM radios have been the hardest to crack.

any thoughts on porting WT 3.0, or will that be strictly a HW accel barrier?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] genei.09:
Open Office

It may just be that I need to get a higher speed sdcard but I have two issues I can find a solution for:

OpenOffice gui doesn't draw properly. All the menu items are blank/empty but all the drop down lists draw properly. Also no error is reported or logged.

Chromium crashes periodically without any information in a log file I can find.

Any thoughts?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
Both are true! If you can manage to get into the view settinga of open office.

Sent from BIONIC rooted with eclipse ROM
[Motorola Droid Bionic] urphonesux:
so adb is the only way to do this right? no apk or zip to flash?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] paramax55:
For Openoffice, open OpenOffice.org Writer. Go into the "tools" menu, it's the third one from the right. You will beable to read the menu item "options" at the bottom. Click on that and you will be brought to a menu that has a long pane on the left with option boxes on the right. Hit the down arrow on the keyboard until you see "Options - OpenOffice.org - View" in the header bar. You will see 7 boxes with check marks in the pane on the right. Unclick the second one down in the left column and click OK at the bottom. "OK" is the bottom button all the way to the left. You can now see your menus.

If you are unsure, you can uncheck all of the boxes. It will still work. The box that gives trouble is the antialiasing box. If you want to re enable it, just change the Pixel count from 1 to 14. 14 is the magic number.

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I have a question myself. I am having some errors with external USB drives. SDcards in an adaptor and thumb drives mount just fine and I can access the information, but they don't unmount. I get an error message when I try. It says:

Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call",interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Umount" error name ="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=892 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)).

I wonder if it has anything to do with the double closed parentheses at the end unbalanced against an open parentheses?

I also get a similar message when I try to mount an external hard drive. Is it going to be possible to mount an external hard drive? Are there updated drivers I can look for to maybe fix these issues?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kitcostantino:
have done this on Eclipse ROM 3.0 and just now on leaked .905 with success.

i have one question, though. anyone know where in the webtop's flash player is stored, because im tempted to try to update it through the same means the mbm.tar.gz file is used because for linux 32 bit the downloaded file is what i think is the same format. i don't know enough about linux or scripts to do it, maybe someone knowledgeable could try to apply the theory. all i know is Hbo Go won't play through an HDMI out (blocked within the app) and the framerate is crap through mozilla and i can't find a setting or hack to allow the display to work properly, in general, on my bionic lapdock with videos. reading the description on moto's website, i think they blocked it out somewhere in the settings, but i am not brave enough to dig around without a means to go back to stock. amazing hacks though, i am grateful to all who helped to get these done and keep them alive. i wish the fxz webtop restore files still existed on here. maybe one of you has a copy of the file kicking around....

EDIT: after poking around I found out that the flash player version is 10.1.something....old, old, old. in fact i think that was one of the first ones to even work on android phones.

I also figured out there are settings you can access by right clicking a video while it's playing. it's pretty much useless though without the ability to update. wish i knew more about how to go about cracking this.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] genei.09:
This fixed the text menu, but the icons still don't draw properly in the tool bar. I tried going through the options in the view menu but nothing made a difference there.

I haven't had that particular issue with usb drives, but I have had sustained read/write issues. Small files transfer without issue, but larger files will have problems.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
I have come to the conclusion the display issues are from the window manager. I was able to get all the way to PreciseFULL but lost my display. I could only VNC INTO the Webtop.

I was using icewm with the best results. Also I was using Metacity as it come default webtop Abiword no Openoffice like metacity. I used the command "openbox --replace", while keeping abiword open with the badly display text and it was immediately fixed. The aiw worked fine with openbox, but openbox does not seem very compatible with other aspects of gnome as it eventuall will restart the phone due to an enormous amount of cpu usage I have yet to narrow down.

Sent from BIONIC rooted with eclipse ROM
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
Update-- the display issues are definitely from the window manager so if you just run the "icewm --replace"

Replace function in the terminal you can use ice WM window manager. I tried this today and for several hours no issues at all.

Sent from BIONIC rooted with Eclipse 3.0 ROM w/ Webtop hack.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ted1735:
This will probably be my last post and should be everyone else's as well. ICS for bionic is out and on fire hands down best webtop experience with out the constant unending package searching command line editing problem after problem after problem. While I did have modded webtop up and running just as I almost got it prefect, this was released. Almost a year of self taught Linux command line, I feel like I should change careers and go into tech industry.

Long story short Webtop 3.0 it's what Motorola should have put out with the phone at launch! It basically turns your phone into an Android ICS 4.04 tablet with keyboard and 4g. Each app we have that is ICS compatible closes and relaunches as an ICS app. If it has not been updated to ICS it will either force close or just open bigger. There is also a feature that once in webtop if you don't like the ICS style app you can relaunch it as the phone app.

Sent from BIONIC rooted with ICS .2233 !
[Motorola Droid Bionic] waffleb051:
So I hate to sound like a noob but will this work with the ICS leak? 2233 to be more precise?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] nitephlight:
no. the kernel has been updated to linux 3. give it it a couple of months well have see worthwhile webtop enhancements. you could also just install a full distro on top of ics..
[Motorola Droid Bionic] paramax55:
I'm interested in "just install a full distro in top of ics.." Where can I find info on that? I tried Google, but I only found info on a method that runs Linux "on top of" android in stead of "side by side with" android like webtop does. Linux is about 20% faster than Android this way and, once, I even watched the phone reboot in the "phone" window while I was using the lapdock.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] ax562:
GB 4 life...well..until source...lol
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jrk190:
I just got a job, so I might get a lap dock with my first check. I wish I could install Unity, or Ubuntu Gnome on this. I've seen the Meercat post, put since I can't do sudo apt-get update, it's pretty much pointless. On here though... Can you run what can be run on Ubuntu? And can Ubuntu GNOME be installed?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] kitcostantino:
Any chance of restoring the .905 webtop on ics or jb? I have a jb bionic, an ics bionic and a badly beaten .905 bionici use just for webtop.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] chrisp6825:
There are no methods to revert to the old webtop, at the moment. It most likely won't happen, though it possibly could some day.

The closest method of creating an Ubuntu or Linux environment like the original webtop is to create a chroot build on the SD storage and vnc into it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
ok after a very long time determined to figure this out, i was able to. i also had to remount before i could get anything to install. now, having said that, i have such a retard question that idont even want to ask it, but il state this first, I have NEVER even seen a pc running linux, much less used one. so excuse my massive lack of knowledge, but here goes... how do i open the program i just installed?

i have synaptic package manager up and running, as well as installed aisleriot (solitaire game) it installed successfully. now where do i go to lunch the program?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
This is bad ass... Just saying.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
anybody... Still needing info, how do I run a program once installed?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] v1r7u41:
Just type the name of the program in the terminal and hit enter.

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I stopped metacity, panels, and the launcher from starting up. Put openbox (fluxbox works too) on it and now I have at least double the memory to work with. I had to mess with the startX.sh in /etc/init.d and the start_osh_1.sh (something like that) script in /usr/local/bin. Thanks guys!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Natronics:
i went ahead and did sudo apt-get clean then update and noted that the repositories show.

interestingly enough, the way I removed awn was to install it through synaptic, then used it's own task manager to end the awn-autostart and avant-window-navigator. *for some reason, using any other task manager did not show awn-autostart or awn*. once i did that, i removed awn, then added xfce-panel. I also removed firefox and inserted chromium.

most of the items for xfce4 have issues with mounting but its really not that bad and i have to run startxfce4 when webtop loads....small price to pay for awesomeness.

currently sitting at 585 out of 931 megs of ram.

nice job to all who participated with this.

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here's a screenshot of what I've done so far.

http://imgur.com/WHk6a
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Loving the Fallout wallpaper ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tallnerd1985:
Feel free to incorporate this into your rom :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Natronics:
agreed. that would automate the process and be a win win. good call tallnerd,

thanks mista. love me some fallout.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
is Webtop2sd app working on the bionic yet?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] v1r7u41:
If any one is interested in trying a flash-able version of this let me know. So far mine is working.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] DroidTh3ory:
Thank you sir... I will get it in tonights update.

Great work on this
[Motorola Droid Bionic] frenetic:
Sure thing. PM me or post link !
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
ok so i installed awn, and cant find where u were able to freeze it... i have xfce installed and running, where do i go to kill the awn, having both task bars on the bottom of the screen is killing me

never mind just found it
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tallnerd1985:
Mr Sogarth is working on it right now whenever he has time. Its a lot of rewrites he has to do with the updated method of unlocking webtop compared to the way he had it set for the Atrix but it will be awesome :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mistawolfe:
Update tonight?

Bonerstorm.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Natronics:
run, glad you found it. :)

tall, thanks for posting the su mkdir fix for the debian updates. I forgot to mention that in the earlier post.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] gsdev:
Webtop Unl3ash3d

I installed Unl3ash3d 1.4 and it looks like a lot of this was incorporated. Out of the gate, I've hot terminal and Synaptic loads. I cannot, however, refresh the package list

The Synaptic error is: Could not download all repository indexes

Followed by: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (2: No such file or directory)

The error in terminal is:

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable to load /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: Failed to open file '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id': No such file or directory)

I'm a little wary of doing anything too crazy because the fxz will take me back further than the rom. Anyone have any ideas?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
flashing with op restoe works

i got the same errors here, im flashing the webtop restore from the OP and going to try it that way.

il let you know what i get
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
ok, getting very frusterated, i had to start from scratch...again...

can u give a give walk thro on what you did where and how, i can not for the life of me get back to where i was.

this is what ive done,

followed op, get to term, dl and installed awn, xfce4, uninstall awn, and system become unresponicve

wiped, tryed again this way

follow op install xfce4, right botton click (windows start button) system, task manager, end process awn auto start, and awn nagivation, system reboots,,, then no webtop at all, just a mirrored image of bionic home screen...
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tallnerd1985:
Hey there run,

instead of killing the process after it starts, why not configure it so it doesnt start from the get go. I've update #2 on the 1st page on a guide to start certain services during bootup of Webtop and disable others, go ahead and give it a shot :)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
thanks for the info, il give it a shot...if i can make sense of it... this is the first linux experience... im learning as i go, slowly...but surely, but its the best way to learn!! just do it yourself...hehe. had to take a break from it for a second...

what bugs the heck out of me is i had it all perfect last night, then it all went to he** in a handbag

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step 4 i get "sudo: gedit: command not found.

tried to contunie on but nothing works, i know sudo is super user, so guessing the other comands have to have su perm to continue and thats why none of the other commands will work... anyone try this with successs?

1) get the full ubuntu on webtop hack http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1000316

2) use synaptic to download (I personally used xfce4 desktop "xfdesktop" and the panel "xfce4-panel")

3) go to /osh/usr/local/bin/ in terminal "cd /osh/usr/local/bin/"

4) sudo gedit

5) in gedit, open start-oshwt-2.sh

6) coment out (# in front of the line) of:

sfalv -i "awm-autostart"

sfalv -i "webtop-wallpaper"

7) add sfalv -i "<Program you want to fun>"

<program you want to run> would be fbpanel, xfdesktop, xfce4-panel, gnome-panel, etc.

8) restart the phone (or go to terminal and run "startx")

Thanks _Dennis_

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giving up for the night, everytime i run in term, startxfce4 i get it to start up, everything is a go, i get the bottom panel, i get a desktop for a second then the desktop goes back to the defualt webtop backround. and my icons are gone... errrr
[Motorola Droid Bionic] frenetic:
Any shortcuts to get to terminal besides ctrl-alt-t? The bluetooth keyboard I am using, admittedly is very cheap, but it can't do 3 keys at a time. What keyboard is everyone else using?

BAW As soon as I posted I realized the on-screen keyboard would lock in ctrl and alt. NIFTY FEATURES GUYS haha. That was intuitive.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] tallnerd1985:
gedit is just a txt editor for Linux, mainly the guide was to point you over to the start-oshwt-2.sh file under /osh/usr/local/bin/ to edit which Desktop Enviroment you want to use when Webtop starts up. You can use Root Explorer on Android and edit the file from there if you dont want to use a terminal program in Webtop.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
I found that out.. Love google, I installed gedit from synaptic, for done reason it wouldn't read the file, the dummy light caner on, I used text editor with root explore, BAMB! works perfectly!

Talk you

For your help! I can't wait for webtop2sd
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
any one know what plugin i need to get youtube working on chrome ?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RoboJoe:
Is the sound supposed to come from the phone when in webtop? Because mine does. I only ask because in mirror mode the sound comes over my tv.

Swyped from my Droid Bionic, unless I was in landscape, in which case I Swiftkeyed the hell out of it.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
From phone on lapdock, from tv, probably still phone cause it thinks its on a dock....but not sure, I can test and report back later tonight
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
anyone able to compile and install from the source, or install rmp?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] chron12:
When I try to install through synaptic I get only errors. It's saying device read only.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
dock phone, open terminal emulater on phone,

Command

Su

Mount -o remount, rw /

Then try to install programs.

Note u will need to do this when installing programs, as long as u don't reboot phone u shouldn't need to remount each time, but if u reboot u will

Need to run that again
[Motorola Droid Bionic] xaero252:
Wow you guys have made a lot of progress on this. Sorry I was unable to get the ball running on this I got really busy as far as it defaulting to the original webtop try finding an xinitrc it's probably using that and reading a preferences file to restore user changes to the webtop such as new shortcuts on awn.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] frenetic:
Spent some time with it this week. Got xfce and chromium installed. Currently unable to get a working flash player for chrome, but not a big deal at this point. Going to try open office soon but feel it may run out of memory real fast. Here's a screenshot of where I have mine. It's all just stock stuff but just an idea of what can be done (the guys in the Atrix thread have some crazy things going on.)

I don't have a mouse that works for android so I am limited and things take a lot longer because of that. The on-screen mouse from the webtop hack works but man it's tedious. I hate touch mice.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
The webtop2sd v2.0 is out for bionic, I'm having issuse getting it working, but its out, that will give u move memory once installed it loads from sd cars so you are not limited to 900Mg in /osh
[Motorola Droid Bionic] xaero252:
It is now key to note that verizon's DNS servers (at least in Washington) are EXPRESSLY BLOCKING ports.ubuntu.com, and you MUST use another DNS server in order to the apt-get update to complete successfully.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] runandhide05:
and they say their not blocking severs!! This is why we need the neutral net!