[seanw444]

The build steps were a nightmare. That's mostly the fault of Samsung, but it was still very off-putting. Unless I was doing something wrong. It took me a couple full nights after work to finally get it done and on the TV, trying to set up Samsung's developer tools on multiple different machines. I dread having to do it again.

[gadders]

Does it work OK? Was it worth the effort?

[seanw444]

Yeah it's been working perfectly for me ever since I set it up last fall (maybe it was winter, can't remember). At least half a year. I'd say it's worth the effort, but the process still sucks.

One of the things I remember making it real difficult was that the UI of Samsung's dev tools app assumes you have the default light theme in GTK (or whatever widget toolkit they're using), and since I had a different dark theme, I couldn't see any of the icons.

So then I switched to one of my devices that were running Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome, where the app would not launch due to something about "pixbuf". Side note - I'd had that particular error so many times in Ubuntu with various apps that it's the sole reason I eventually learned Arch (and tiling window managers), and haven't looked back since.

I finally managed to get it to launch and work correctly on Xubuntu running on my girlfriend's very, very old laptop that takes about 8 minutes to boot to full speed. So save yourself the headache, and run the Samsung dev tools app on an unmolested Linux installation, with no special theming, that is not vanilla Ubuntu.

[gadders]

I would if I had one. I'm windows-only currently. I guess I could spin up a VM but then I have networking issues...

Thanks for the feedback.

[seanw444]

Oh, in that case, I'm sure Samsung has it available for Windows, and it will probably work even better than the Linux version does (considering there aren't dozens of Windows distributions, and dozens of window managers, and a half-dozen popular GUI toolkits to account for).