Major Overhaul: Session Management, Termux:Widget Support, and Firefox ESR#2
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…ariable handling and improved user instructions
- Fix variable expansion: single-quoted $USER/$PASS never expanded, broke chpasswd/sudoers - Add dialog package before xfce4 to prevent tzdata/keyboard-configuration freeze - Replace apt with apt-get for non-interactive scripting - Add --no-install-recommends to avoid pulling unnecessary proot packages - Fix launcher heredoc escaping (start-xfce.sh $BINDS was literal) - Add set -euo pipefail + error trap on proot login block - Standardize PulseAudio socket path via $TERMUX_TMP
- Generate scripts in ~/.shortcuts/ for Termux:Widget support - Add kill-proot.sh and kill-x11.sh to cleanly manage processes - Fix XFCE session corruption on restart by clearing ~/.cache/sessions/ - Fix missing window manager and desktop dependencies (libgl1, xfdesktop4) - Add firefox-esr for stable browsing - Auto-launch Termux:X11 app via am start intent - Complete README overhaul with emojis, alerts, and "Why Proot?" section
- Document 'Nuclear Option' to clear Termux data completely - Explain how to safely update scripts via curl without deleting personal files
- Generate update-droiddesk.sh in ~/.shortcuts for easy 1-tap updates - Update README to reflect 5th launcher script
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- kill-x11: fix hardcoded /tmp path to use $TERMUX_TMP - kill-x11: graceful pkill before SIGKILL, per-process feedback - kill-proot: add xfdesktop4 to process list - kill-proot: specific proot pattern (distro-scoped, not 'proot --') - kill-proot: specific dbus pattern (session only, not system) - kill-proot: graceful kill → sleep → force-kill fallback - kill-proot: clean XDG_RUNTIME_DIR temp - add kill-all.sh unified convenience script - update MOTD and help text
- patch-ubuntudx.sh: non-interactive DX installer (geany, git, gh, Node.js 24, python3-pip/venv, jq, htop, tree, ripgrep, nala, curl, wget, zip/unzip) - patch-tui.sh: interactive dialog TUI with checkbox package picker (23 packages across dev tools, editors, browsers, utilities) - proot-xfce-setup.sh: remove firefox-esr from base install (now optional via patch-tui.sh to reduce setup time)
- Delete patch-ubuntudx.sh (consolidated into TUI) - Add category separators in dialog checklist - Add packages: nano, papirus-icon-theme, arc-theme - Improved install summary with box-drawing UI - Filter separator items from selection parsing - Better trap cleanup for temp files
Added: - sqlitebrowser (Database) - meld (Visual Diff) - lxtask (Task Manager) - viewnior (Image Viewer) - xarchiver (Archive Manager) - galculator (Calculator) - netsurf-gtk (Ultra-light Browser)
Added: - Gemini CLI (gemini-chat via npm) - Qwen CLI (qwen-chat via npm) - Context-Mode (via npm) - AIChat (Multi-provider binary) - Shell GPT (sgpt via pip) - Ollama (Local LLM runner)
- Use --shared-tmp and dbus-launch for better session management - Add aggressive cleanup of .ICEauthority and session cache in kill-proot script
…ocumentation refs
- Fixed PATH pollution from Termux into PRoot environment. - Added NVM initialization to generated .bashrc. - Fixed premature shell expansion of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in start-xfce.sh. - Improved reliability of XFCE session startup.
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This PR introduces several major improvements to make DroidDesk a true 1-click 'daily-driver' setup:
Features & Fixes
start-x11.sh,start-xfce.sh,kill-x11.sh, andkill-proot.sh. Destructive process killing is no longer done on startup, preventing X server conflicts.kill-proot.shscript securely cleans~/.cache/sessions/inside the rootfs. This permanently fixes the 'missing cursor' and 'Window Manager failed to start' bugs on subsequent launches.~/.shortcuts/(and symlinked to~/), allowing 1-tap start/stop from the Android homescreen.update-droiddesk.sh) to safely pull future updates without wiping user data.am startintent to automatically switch the user's screen to the Termux:X11 app once the server is ready.libgl1,mesa-utils,xfdesktop4) to ensure the desktop environment does not crash on ARM displays.firefox-esrnatively inside the proot environment.Documentation
README.mdwith GitHub-flavored markdown (emojis, alerts, center alignment).glibcbinaries and default app handling compared to Debian or Fedora.