Comment by ๐ŸŒ† skyjake

Re: "First post from my RGB30 Linux handheld console. Asโ€ฆ"

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Hmm, I suppose a cute little travel keyboard that connects via Bluetooth wouldn't be too bad to carry around. While you could jam the RGB30 in a pocket, it's not that comfortable, so some kind of a bag situation is needed anyway.

(I'm typing this via Bluetooth on the RGB30.)

๐ŸŒ† skyjake [OP, sysop]

2025-12-17 ยท 5 months ago

4 Later Comments โ†“

๐Ÿ›ธ Emru ยท Jan 06 at 09:35:

Very nice. Is that screen keyboard part of Lagrange, or is it separate program?

๐ŸŒ† skyjake [OP...] ยท Jan 06 at 10:04:

It is part of Lagrange. The system can't show multiple programs at once due to there not being a window system present.

๐Ÿš€ donsta ยท Feb 21 at 15:39:

Amazing! How did you develop the application for this? I have a few of these, am a programmer, and am familiar with linux but don't know how I would get to the command line on one of these. I have a Powkiddy and two Anbernics.

๐ŸŒ† skyjake [OP...] ยท Feb 21 at 17:46:

@donsta The Powkiddy runs JELOS, which is basically a minimal aarch64 Linux distribution. I didn't bother looking for a cross-compilation toolchain, but instead chose an aarch64 Debian from the same time period (2023, I think) and ran it in a VM. In this Debian VM, I did a normal Lagrange build. I statically linked most dependencies, and thankfully the ones that had to be dynamic were compatible enough to work when they got loaded from JELOS instead of Debian. I also did a custom static build of SDL2 with support for the Rockchip GPU. All in all, a little hacky but it only took a few days to work out the kinks.

Original Post

๐ŸŒ† skyjake [...]

First post from my RGB30 Linux handheld console. As suspected, typing on this new on-screen keyboard is tedious, but it works! I've got Lagrange running on this thing, obviously. :)

Photo of the RGB30 with Lagrange and an on-screen keyboard

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