Can Ubuntu 22.04 be officially approved?

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Will you be replacing the “tested with Ubuntu 20.04” with 22.04? It is LTS.
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Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows Server 2016/2019/2022
  • Windows 10/11
  • macOS (10.14+)
  • Linux (support for popular distributions, tested with Ubuntu 20.04)
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This is something we are working toward certifying. I don’t have a current timeline on when the testing will be complete.

Garth

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Last I checked, the GNOME interface wasn’t 100% consistent will full-screen/Kiosk windows. Sometimes it would allow fullscreen and other times it wouldn’t (it would limit the window to the area not taken by the side launcher and the top header, but would show the desktop background through those areas if that makes sense).

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That's the problem.

Kubuntu for the win!

(Xubuntu when you need something lightweight.)

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The primary concern is that the Ignition Gateway runs.

I think you’ll find there’s unlimited potential for Linux UI bugs, especially if you try to use high DPI.

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Glad to see there is still work being done on it. Thanks for the inputs.

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Has anyone tried Zorin OS? Looks to be Ubuntu based, but has a more Windows look and feel to it to try to make it easier for the inexperienced user to use the OS. In playing with it, it seems to work well, although it’s still running off Ubuntu 20.04.

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@ggross,
following up on this thread, any progress toward certifying Ubuntu 22.04?

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Ignition is certified for Ubuntu 22.04 and it is the current version of Ubuntu that is deployed with our official Docker image.

We do need to a better job at making this information publicly available this post is spurring discussion around that.

Garth

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Is it approved for both Vision and Perspective also? Running a gateway is one thing, but the on-screen keyboard usually causes issues, or in 22.04 at one time had issues with kiosk/full-screen mode with clients not actually going full screen.

If there is an approved OS and workarounds are required for things to work properly beyond a default install, it would be nice if documentation was provided to install something or tweak a setting to get it to work.

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It has been tested and approved for both Vision and Perspective to work as well as it did with 20 to an extent. Due to changes in Ubuntu that we cannot currently code around, the Desktop launcher does not work unless the entire application is installed on the Desktop of the client.

Outside of that, there are a couple open issues with the Swing interfaces:

  1. If using the Wayland interface that Ubuntu 22 defaults to, there are inconsistencies with items redrawing. The work around is, from the Ubuntu login screen, to use the settings menu to select Xorg instead.
  2. With Ubuntu 22.04 + KDE Plasma X11 there are reports that pasting into the Tag Browser is not working.

As for the touchscreen stuff, the issues surrounding that typically dealt with jxBrowser working with Perpective Workstation. We don't have the latest version of jxBrowser included because of problems getting the touchscreen keyboard to work properly with the regressions introduced in the upgraded library. With Vision, I am being told that the touchscreen keyboard is working as intended.

Garth

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