I have been off line for a few years. I have at last retired and now I have time on my hands. I dug out my old Lenovo X200 tablet and fired it up. It was having non of it. So I reinstalled Elive and got it all up and running. It needs a new keyboard and a bit of a service but its working. Im glad to be back. I cant wait to see what new things you guys have developed.
Hey Rory welcome back. Long time no see, indeed.
Glad to hear the old X200T is still working. 
The old X200T was only just working. I received a reconditioned keyboard for it today from China, so its working well now. I took off the rubberised finish from the outside and resprayed it semi matt black.Its looking quite good now. My next upgrade will be a new battery and it will be complete. Its running well and elive is running flawless on it.
By the way I want to install the latest version of Darktable. Any tips before I mess it up.
Nah, no worry there. A simple āapui darktableā in a terminal will suffice. 
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Thanks. I shall get on it.
Hello!
For ultimate upgrade of your X200T, you can offer it a free BIOS, via CoreBoot or LibreBoot (if it worth the case for you), for speed bootā¦ 
Salutations!
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Not so sure about that. The X200 is on offer but the tablet version has different hardware.
Last time I checked with Leah Rowe (Libreboot) it wouldnāt workā¦. which admittedly is more than a year ago.
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Sounds a good idea. I shall look into it.
It all went smoothly. It installed the version 3.8 which is good but the new version is 5.2 and has a lot of new stuff. Quite an improvement and in the next ten days even more great modules being added. It wont install on my machine as Im running Linux 11 Bullseye. Can I install the latest version 12 of linux on my machine as it needs that to run the darktable 5.2
I may try installing flatpak to get the latest version. I think the latest version of darktable might work with Debian 11. I shall give a try tomorrow.
You can try the flatpak but upgrading to Bookworm or simply the latest Elive version is always a good idea.
Simply give the latest (3.8.50) a try as a live version and see what it does for youā¦then, if its to your liking let it upgrade following the prompts. 
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I may try the elive latest version. I downloaded flatpak and got the latest version of Darktable installed perfectly. I can highly recommend it. Its much more powerful than Lightroom.
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Im starting to use the tablet and pen with darktable which is working perfectly. I tried to use it in a browser but the screen keyboard isnt coming up automatically. How do I enable the screen keyboard when using tablet mode.
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There isnāt using Eliveā¦where the problem lies in detecting when ātablet-modeā needs to be activated or not.
Iāve pestered @Thanatermesis about it a long time ago but to no real result:
The best solution is to call the screen keyboard before starting tablet-mode or have an icon to click that enables the screen-keyboard.
The other option is to have āonboardā in startup-applications so that it starts at every session. If itās clicked away itāll stay available in the sys-tray.
Apparently ( Using Elive on my daily driver Lenovo Yoga (as a tablet) - #12 by triantares ) there were some scripts I had specifically made for your machine but alas I donāt have access to them now. Maybe next week.
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I created a way to open the keyboard when I need it manually which is fine. Moving it around is not easy but possible.
Iām learning how to use the terminal, Im using various documents on debĆan. Org and watching a few videos on YouTube. I need to practise though. When boot up the computer there are two boot options. The one at the top defaults if I do nothing. Is the second one good for me to practice on. Is that the bootable version that I canāt mess up. Good to practice terminal commands.
Or would I be better creating an elive virtual machine version to practise on.
well the āimpermutableā version is actually nice to test what happens if, for instance, you want to test out something dodgy you want to install.
You can mess around and change to whatever thereās weird advice to do so and ā¦ if it messes up just restart and itās all gone.
Downside: Itās also gone if it eventually worked out nice ā¦.. so take notes as to what worked and what didnāt if you want to replicate.
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Excellent. Thatās perfect for me. I have been taking notes anyway because i never remember things.