Help
Um so I thought it would be cool to run som Pc software on a phone. I stumbled across these two tutorials https://ivonblog.com/en-us/posts/termux-proot-distro-debian/ and https://ivonblog.com/en-us/posts/termux-x11/ I have no idea how those things work but I followed all steps and now I have half working software.
Problems: when I move mouse it moves but after a while it somehow kills itsef and stops working
And displacement...
Solution:
Phantom Process Killing 📱 🔫 👻
Termux being randomly killed and displaying [Process completed (signal 9) - press Enter]
is a known problem. It is caused by an Android battery optimization called the phantom process killer.
- More information about the issue:
https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2366
- Potential solutions...
error when running dotnet-host-9.0
as title mentions i used pkg to install dotnet-host-9.0 but running any type of command gets the following error
error: [/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/dotnet/host/fxr] does not exist
i tried
~ $ dotnet -list-runtimes...
[SOLVED] Setting env vars for termux:widget
My shell when starting via termux:widget is not loading something from the environment but I am unaware of what it is, like the alacritty running via termux shortcut (the same script) as in those screenshots
script
script
i3-session
used in both screenshots, it works when started via command line but not widget, how could I fix it?
```bash...Solution:
Thank you, but it didn't work... what worked was export SHELL to zsh binary in the script; here is the script i'm using
```bash
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/zsh
...

[SOLVED] Termux blinking/flickering after Android update
Is there a way to fix Termux blinking in a Samsung Galaxy Tab after updated to Android 15?
Have you heard this happening to others?
(both the termux and the termux keyboard)...
Solution:
The solution was opening the termux menu, going to settings and disabling this setting in the screenshot
Building Wine stable - undefined symbol posix_spawn
Hey,
Tried building wine-stable via the packages.yml github workflow, and getting this error:
```
2025-07-19T17:16:54.1889677Z /home/builder/.termux-build/wine-stable/host-build/tools/winegcc/winegcc -o dlls/avicap32/i386-windows/avicap32.dll --wine-objdir . ...
Weird graphic error with text
All the text in my termux shell looks weird and broken(to some extent) it was normal in a different device but changed in my OnePlus nord ce 5. I tried setting the minimum width to 411 (same as my other device) but didn't fix it

Need Help To Run This Got
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to run this project on my Android device using Termux (no PC access):
🔗 https://github.com/joshua-holmes/google-photos-metadata-fix
...
Java eror
I want to install papermc on termux but there is a problem with java
Device: Redmi 5a (snapdragon 425)
Openjdk-21-JDK...

create symlink to sdcard failure
I'm trying to create a symlink to an sdcard, so that I can access it from proot-distro. However, the attempt has resulted in a failure, is this possible? or maybe I'm just doing it wrong?

why is sway reversed?
like in the image; it's upside down (flipped vertically) and also flipped horizontally
X11 (xfce4, i3) works normally....

Permission for data/data
I can't seem to get permission for the data folder. I rooted my phone and gave the app storage permission. Important to know may be I'm using BlueStacks
What else would I need to do to access the folder?
I also just tried 'termux-setup-storage' and ran it. But I still don't have permission...

Termux help
I cant get anything to run on termux SU or linux OS distros or VNC it says root@/loacalhost~]#

`ffmpeg-static` installation issue
Hey! I'm trying to make a discord bot using
ffmpeg
, and I'm trying to install ffmpeg-static
but I'm having errors, does anyone have solution for this?Solution:
We don't seem to have a
ffmpeg-static
package.
Where did you get the idea that we do?...Failed building wheels process
I can't install 80% of the python libraries i want for my projects.
Says: building wheels for grpcio(project.toml)
Then i stuck with it for a couple of minutes then the whole process crashed....
Sync github to com.termux
Is there way to do this so I dont have to download my file or folder, then use bash commands to sync to the com folder? Trying to sync my mud files and scripts using github so I can make changes on my phone while playing and push it to the cloud to pull frm computer and not have to worry
Bootstrap installation on OneUI 7 (Android 15) fails
I reinstalled Termux from F-Droid, it was installed from GitHub. I uninstalled all plugins before. I've often done it, but not since updating to Android 15.
At first startup, the second stage bootstrap fails.
I think that no files were copied at
/data/data/com.termux/files/
....Solution:
Nevermind.
I just reboot my device.
But I never had to before, why?...
yt-dlp installation
I ran
`termux-setup-storage # Allow termux to download files into your phone's storage
pkg update && pkg upgrade # Update all packages
pkg install python python-pip # Install Python and pip...

Running code-server in Termux
Hey bro, can u help me plz
Ik NTG abt coding n all I'm very new to it, I'm learning it
So I want to use vs code on my android...
Solution:
@Scale
...
pkg install tur-repo
pkg install code-server
pkg install tur-repo
pkg install code-server