Termux on android for remote work with distant

[vanarok]

I work on a tablet connecting to a remote server and termux, the input delay during such work is unpleasant, I was very glad to learn that such a tool as distant is being developed, but unfortunately I was not able to run it in termux. I was unable to start the manager daemon without third-party programs (systemd, openrs, etc..l) that are required to connect to a remote distant server. Someone with the same workflow, how did you solve this?

[chipsenkbeil]

Hey there! Termux isn't officially supported (yet), but a build was produced thanks to termux/termux-packages#15610. How is it failing to start? How are you trying to run it?

It looks like they needed to modify the build as shown in build.sh and changed a file path as shown in paths.rs.patch. So you may have to run the manager and client pointing to a specialized socket path.

[vanarok]

[chipsenkbeil]

@vanarok you're trying to install the manager as a service, which probably doesn't make sense on termux. Can you try running it normally?

# Start the manager as a daemon process
distant manager listen --daemon

# Print out the connections, which should be none by default -- this will fail if unable to connect to the manager
distant manager list