My reply is in-lined below. On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 02:30:27PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > Maybe this will help: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/229287/how-do-i-make-ubuntu-appear-as-a-bluetooth-keyboard > **************** Regarding the above URL, it uses hidclient. hidclient depends on hidd (hid daemon). hidd is obsolete. So that didn't work. I was also unable to get my old way to work, although I'm not 100% done trying yet. I'm having a < mouse freeze up problem > and an < I've decided to ignore the ENTER key > problem; both problems simultaneously, of course! I'm going to try to stick a USB mouse in a USB slot and see if that helps for the position- ing problem; however, I don't see a solution for the < Let's ignore ENTER >. **************** > Here's my question: If you have a laptop with you, then why use the > phone for email? Is it because you can use your data connection when > there is no WiFi? What I would do is use the phone as a WiFi hotspot > and then use the laptop for email. I don't know if all Android phones > with all carriers can do that, but with T-Mobile I've been doing it > and it works great. **************** Yes, sometimes I'm somewhere with no WiFi (in fact, too often). I'm leery of the amount of data that a hotspot uses--does anyone know how to measure it?!?! Some places I just don't carry the laptop. As far as email on the phone, I usually end up doing: 1. seeing if there's anything important. 2. deleting stupid crap e-mail (ads, facebook notifications, etc.). I typically don't actually write anything or reply because keyboards on smartphones just plainly suck. As far as using {facebook, groupme, meetup} on the phone--I think it is just easier. Of course, I know I'm blessed that, although I'm 56, I do not yet need bifocals, and can still read fairly small fonts on the phone. I even use it for e-books (although, if I have my laptop up and running, I then use Amazon's web interface). **************** ******** <<<< LOTS OF STUFF DELETED HERE >>>>> ******** > >> >> I'm thinking of using VNCviewer on it. Have any of you ever done that? **************** My problem with VNC is that it is unencrypted. I did write a couple of scripts that make the VNC traffic encrypted with the help of SSH. I have pretty much only used VNC between GNU/Linux boxes. At one time, there was a way to use an old GNURoot (but not the current one) version so you could remotely-control all of X running under GNURoot) with your VNC-viewer running on a GNU/Linux laptop. In this setup, though, I was using some sort of USB cable for IP communication. And it appears it is done somewhat differently now, and I couldn't get it to work in < GNURoot Debian >. **************** Cheers! And thanks for the URL you found at top!, ~ Steve ~