By continue e-ink theme, what about browsers for Gemini protocol?

I wonder if nobody wrote yet

2024-12-19 · 1 year ago

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This feels pretty achievable with off-the-shelf e-Ink displays available for the hobby boards like raspberry pi. Might be able to run excellent terminal software virtually unmodified if you can get a character display going on it.

in some of the "Gemini software" lists there are, I've seen that there is a plugin for KOreader that does this.

I've only tried KOreader in an Android phone, and that plugin explicitly doesn't work on Android, so I'm not sure how it works. I'm gonna try and find a link

I tried to use the Gemini plugin for Koreader on a Kobo e-reader : it works great!

Here's the link to koreader plugin:

It would be great if someone could try to run it on android and tell me what (if anything) goes wrong; one person did try and told me it didn't work for them, but it wasn't clear why not.

It’s on my todo list, send hardware

@mbays : yep, that's the link I couldn't find. I remember the "tested as not working" sentence.

I'm at the airport waiting to go on some days of holidays, but I'll bookmark this thread to try it if I have some down time.

cheers!

@mbays , I finally tried it, and the menu entry appears, but tapping it only brings up a centered popup that says "failed to list history directory". Not sure if this helps much...

@jmcs aha, thanks. This seems to mean it's failed to create/list a directory in /tmp/. Does /tmp/ not exist on android? If you'd like to help out more, could you try finding some suitable temp paths to set history_dir and queue_dir to in client.lua and see if you can get it working?