Linux support

[rvdleun]

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]

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]

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]

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

[rvdleun]

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(2c43774) 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]

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]

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