[xiphos-users] How to fit xiphos onto linux Pinephone screen?

[Nels Tomlinson]

That's what I was afraid of. I'm liking Xiphos on my PC, and I am still
hoping I can use the same dot file and so on on the phone.  Unfortunately
Xiphos is the only bible reader I've found so far that will work with the
touch screen at all.  Bibletime either crashes or won't scroll, and Debian
doesn't have any other bible readers for Arm.

I hadn't found a way to turn the sidebar entirely off, but once you pointed
to it, I noticed that there is a toggle for that.  It does help.  The
Xiphos version available for Debian Arm is 4.2.1 (gtk3 webkit2).  The
version I'm using on Mint on my PC is 4.0.7 (gtk3 webkit1). Is there a way
to turn off the bar at the bottom which does nothing but say ``Welcome to
Xiphos''? Getting that off would help in landscape mode.

I noticed a passing mention in the documentation about using cascading
style sheets. I played with that a little bit a long time ago. Is there any
sort of guide or example for how to use them here?

I would like to be able to flit between bible and commentary and
dictionary, but only see one at a time.  On Android I'm using MySword, and
it uses the tiny screen fairly well. I still have fond memories of
Palmbible+, but I think that is as dead as the Palmpilots it was made for.

Nels Tomlinson
(907) 810-7006 Cell
(907) 873-2160 Desk


On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 2:05 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

> On 8/31/21 2:56 PM, Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>
> How can I change the width of the bible text area so that it is no wider
> than the screen?
>
>
> The short answer is that you probably can't.
>
> The long answer is that we have had requests since The Dawn Of Net.Time
> for re-arrangements of Xiphos' main window to fit smaller and smaller and
> yet ever smaller screens, and the current truly minimalist size limits are
> *still* not small enough for some folks.
>
> The deeper problem is that Xiphos is a full-featured, heavyweight, massive
> resource occupation kind of application, and it was never envisioned as an
> app that anybody would want to use on a phone. It pre-dates the invention
> of the smartphone by about 7 years. There simply isn't a sensible way to
> look at its expected usage pattern -- Bible + commentary + dictionary +
> tab-separated collections of all these + sidebar + menubar, all visible
> at once -- and shoehorn it into a phone-sized screen. Xiphos works well in
> the environment of a normal display where there is legitimately large real
> estate with which to work, where all that real estate and all those
> resources are usable together.
>
> Your one possible saving throw is that you can turn off the sidebar
> entirely from the View menu.
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