[RESPONDED] Framework and PopOS

[Tommy_Westwing]

Thanks for this post. I am new to Linux, but I bought a new framework computer and installed POP on it. I’ve been trying to get used to it. I like it, but there are some very frustrating things. The thing that makes it almost unusable for me is that when I type something, such as this comment or something in Libre office, my palm touches the trackpad and takes my cursor all over the place and my sentences get totally jumbled. I have gone into the settings and turned on the “Disable while typing” but this does not seem to be working or it doesn’t work well. This is the kind of thing that makes an awesome product totally unusable.

[Brunoais]

@Tommy_Westwing

I have gone into the settings and turned on the “Disable while typing” but this does not seem to be working or it doesn’t work well.

I know very well what you mean.
In my case, I have a solution but, unfortunately, it requires a small tinkering and maybe the command line.
It revolves around using a tool called syndaemon
There is no graphical interface for it but you can create a startup entry for it (I don’t know how that is done in POP, I can’t help you there )
The settings I usually recommend people are:

syndaemon -i 1  -K -t -R

This means:

1. 1s for touchpad disable
2. -k Means to ignore modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, etc…). I recommend you keep this one
3. -t Means to allow the mouse to move but don’t allow it to touch click. You can remove this to keep the mouse in place while touching is disabled. I think keeping or not is heavily preferential to you.
4. -R Keep it. It’s technical but explained in the manual (command: man syndaemon)

To test if you like it:

1. turn off the option “Disable while typing”
2. open a terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T in your keyboard)
3. paste the command there by pressing (Press Ctrl+Alt+V)
4. Press Enter to start the program

Terminal can be scary but it is an area where linux has a common ground between distros. for me, I have no idea how the POP control panel looks like.

I hope it helps

[Tommy_Westwing]

Thank you. Before I try this, can you tell me how to undo it if it doesn’t work right? Thanks!

[Brunoais]

@Tommy_Westwing

how to undo it if it doesn’t work right?

If it doesn’t seem to work, you can try using the argument -m with -m 0.2 as an example. Here’s a complete argument example with this alternative:
syndaemon -i 1 -m 0.2 -K -t

If that still doesn’t work, here’s how to undo/remove:

Easiest way:
Remove the entry from POP!_OS autostart list and reboot

Harder way:
Remove the entry from POP!_OS autostart list and execute killall syndaemon

[Tommy_Westwing]

Thank you very much!!!

[Duane_Johnson]

@Tommy_Westwing

The thing that makes it almost unusable for me is that when I type something, such as this comment or something in Libre office, my palm touches the trackpad and takes my cursor all over the place and my sentences get totally jumbled.

I experience this as well. While I don’t have a direct solution for you, I’m investigating several layers of the stack and reported my current findings here: Subpar touchpad - #25 by Duane_Johnson

[Tommy_Westwing]

Thanks Duane! I will keep an eye on your progress.

[Jacob_Griffin]

Since this is the main thread for Pop_OS!, I thought I might add a link to a script I wrote to get the finger print reader working.

Script

[RESPONDED] Pop_OS! - Script to enable fingerprint

I have found a couple different guides addressing how to set up the fingerprint reader on Ubuntu, Fedora, and other distros, but I haven’t seen anyone post on how to setup the finger print reader in Pop_OS!. Here is the script I pieced together from these guides. Hope this helps and feel free to make suggest any improvements. #!/bin/bash sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y ## Path correction for python (solved a compilation issue) export PATH="/home/$USER/.local/bin:$PATH" ## Fingerprint re…

Apologies if this is not allow.

[JimboJet]

@Kurtz

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
I appeared to be in s2idle, I then ran the following command:
sudo kernelstub -a "mem_sleep_default=deep"
and then after a restart I appear to be in deep sleep.

Thanks a ton - I also was not getting results, and copying the mem_sleep inquiry you listed showed mine was also still in s2idle. Copying the command you listed to change the default to [deep] seems to have done the trick. Will be taking note of battery level tonight when I close the laptop to see how it does compared to last night.

Thanks again!

[Jacob_01]

Anyone else having this issue? Any fixes? Not system-breaking just pretty annoying.

[Mariusz_Chrobak]

Hey,
My laptop running PopOS does not want to display on second monitor, connected thru USB C docking station. I used before the same docking station (and monitor), same PopOS version and DisplayLink drivers (same exact ver) and it worked fine on my 11yo laptop with USC A to C adapter… If I use HDMI - works fine. Docking station HDMI - nope. Technically it is the same “architecture” of connection, but it does not work.
Docking station is HP (USB A/C in the name) with DisplayLink 4k.

BTW. Every other function works just fine - High speed USB, charging, and Eth. PopOS even was able to find an update to internal firmware…

[Joey_Galloway]

@Jacob_01

Anyone else having this issue?

Have you messed with the HiPDI/LoDPI settings at all?
On a second/external monitor?

[Tommy_Westwing]

Can someone help please. Not really good at Linux, but installed POP os and I’ve liked it. But the latest upgrade didn’t load properly. This is the message I get…

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
network-manager: Depends: libnm0 (= 1.30.0-1ubuntu3) but 1.32.12-0ubuntu1 is installed
Breaks: ppp (>= 2.4.7-3~) but 2.4.9-1+1ubuntu1 is installed
network-manager-pptp: Depends: ppp (< 2.4.7-3~) but 2.4.9-1+1ubuntu1 is installed

[lbkNhubert]

@Tommy_Westwing

The following packages have unmet dependencies

This may help:

How to Fix Unmet Dependencies Error on Ubuntu

The commands would be:
sudo apt-get install -f network-manager
and
sudo apt-get install -f network-manager-pptp

I am running pop 21.10, this is the info from running apt list -qq network-manager network-manager-pptp:
network-manager-pptp/impish,now 1.2.8-3build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
network-manager/impish,now 1.32.12-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

[apnea]

[RESPONDED] Framework and PopOS

Hey all, I’m just starting a topic for things I’m learning as I run PopOS 21.04 on my Framework. Installing. You’re gonna need to disable secure boot. Until you do the default installer image will give you a kernel signature error. Do that by spamming F2 during power up and then disabling SecureBoot entirely in Bios DeepSleep My Framework is defaulting to S2Idle which is burning through battery like crazy during sleep. you can enable deep sleep by adding a kernel boot option in /boot/efi/l…

For what it’s worth, I personally I didn’t find the TearFree option to fix the tearing issue I was experiencing. I ended up having to disable fractional scaling in Settings->Display in order to get the tearing to stop.

I’m running PopOS 21.10 impish and 5.15.8-76051508-generic

[Runkai_Zhang]

@apnea oh gee I never expected a reply, I am about 50 distro hops away from that at this point haha. The issue on popos for me seemed to be hardware acceleration at first. Then switching to wayland helped immensely. I think it was just older versions of Firefox being more finicky even with the Arch wiki’s suggestions. Then at the same time after a couple of reinstalls the problems just went away even on xorg so I am just really confused about how the whole thing happened.

[DAE]

6 hours ago my laptop was at 70% battery, woke up today and it wouldn’t turn on without the adapter plugged in. 1% battery.

when I cat mem_power it shows [s2idle] deep.

Aside from hopping to a different distro I’m not sure what to do.

[lbkNhubert]

My solution was to set it up to use suspend-then-hibernate. I have it configured to switch to hibernate after 15 or 30 minutes of suspend. I don’t mind it taking a little bit longer to come bask as the battery drain is only a percent or two. I also have sleep set to deep vs s2idle.

[DAE]

@lbkNhubert Can you explain how you did that?

[lbkNhubert]

@DAE - certainly. My setup is a little complicated as I have it set up to multiboot, with btrfs and full disk encryption. Essentially you will need to make sure that your swap partition is larger than the ram on your machine. For hibernation setup, I followed these guides, with some modifications:

Enable Hibernation (Suspend to Disk)

POP OS! Hibernate enable step by step Complete tutorial and references.

To default to deep sleep, run sudo kernelstub -a “mem_sleep_default=deep” in the terminal.

Let me know if you run into any issues, I’ll be happy to help if I can. It’s working very well for me.