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Telegram does not include pre-compiled binary version of its Telegram Desktop application for ARM Linux. I decided to do two attempts today: compile Telegram Desktop on ARM from sources after running in on Raspberry Pi (Ubuntu Mate), try to also deploy it to Ubuntu Touch based phone This could have been just a regular step-by-step tutorial for reproducing an outcome. Instead I made it a complete journal/log of the process. Complete with dead ends and failures. I wanted this post to contain the story, the logic, the rationale and to allow for extrapolating this process to other ones that you, the reader, might deal with in the future. The general grand level problem here is this: building and deploying software across multiple architectures of Ubuntu in a workflow distributed across desktop computer, raspberry pi board and Ubuntu Touch phone. and this is only the Part 1, as the things didn't end up well the first time around. Still, you can learn about bunch of topics ...

Just today I have commited an answer to Quora:  Which is a good editor for writing C++ programs on the Ubuntu platform?  after mistakenly reading that it was about Ubuntu Touch, when it was actually about Ubuntu in general. So I decided to bring the content here, where it will not be an out-of-place content by mistake. Geany is a GUI text editor which also supports multiple compilers including gcc or Free Pascal (fpc) which I use it mostly with. It also supports syntax highlighters for plethora of languages and formats. It is a GTK app, but you can get it up and running on your phone directly, without any container like Libertine. Without further do, below is the content I made on Quora. Although I almost entirely write apps for UT devices in Pascal, but I did write a little in C++. I did not find any IDE as good as Lazarus IDE for Pascal, but at least for non GUI apps, I found  Geany  pretty convenient. It supporst many compilers, including gcc. Also it su...

Windowed landscape mode on Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition - YES this is how my PHONE looks like: Just only this week, after few months of full-time using Ubuntu Phone I learnt how easy it is to switch to Windowed Mode. This knowledge came to me as I was researching more on the newer MX5 Pro Ubuntu Edition phone which offers Convergence over a remote (wireless) display. My older MX4 does not offer convergence - not like MX5 does - but turns out that under the hood the platform is de facto exactly same on both devices. MX5 has a hardware support for connecting a remote display wirelessly, and Convergence only kicks in automatically once an external screen is detected.  Apparently on Ubuntu Tablet, with a bigger display facility it is also possible to switch on to "desktop mode". I was lacking this on my MX4, but it turns out, that only the user interface chose to hide some settings from me, assuming that on my form factor some features/modes wouldn't be useful/usable.  A...