Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jan 24, 2023

Keeping SSH connections alive on iOS with high-fidelity terminal emulation and without draining your battery: the Story of El Preservador.

https://blog.xibbon.com/solving-background-disconnect-issues-on-ios-with-el/

El Preservador: SSHing Responsibly on iOS

With La Terminal, we strive to offer an SSH client that just works on iOS. With this in mind, I set out to make design decisions on behalf of users that would provide an experience that works out of the box while providing the best terminal emulator experience they deserve.

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Show threadJames GilbertJan 29, 2023
@Migueldeicaza Where do I report bugs? On my 9.7" iPad Pro arrow keys are drawn on top of function keys, and there is a black bar above the keyboard. El Preservador fails to reconnect on High Sierra Mac Mini server.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jan 29, 2023
@jgrg one quick diagnostic question, what happens if you log into that machine and type: .laterminal/session-preservation-3-Darwin-x86_64 --version
Show threadJames GilbertJan 29, 2023

@Migueldeicaza Ah ha!

$ .laterminal/session-preservation-3-Darwin-x86_64 --version
dyld: Symbol not found: ___darwin_check_fd_set_overflow
Referenced from: /Users/***/.laterminal/session-preservation-3-Darwin-x86_64 (which was built for Mac OS X 12.0)
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Users/***/.laterminal/session-preservation-3-Darwin-x86_64
Abort trap: 6

Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jan 29, 2023
@jgrg thank you! Ok let me see if I can figure out the magic incarnation to fix this!
Show threadJames Gilbert
@Migueldeicaza I just added two bug reports on github.
Jan 29, 2023 at 6:13pmWeb