Guido Günther

#phosh, #gnome, #librem5, #linux, #debian (in random order)

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2024-10-11 07:05:51

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@npub1ay4…cgp5 a bit more than a year ago: https://social.librem.one/@agx/110260534404795348 (hope it didn't get broken in the meantime by other changes 😃 )

2024-08-25 15:27:55

llibphosh-rs 0.0.2 is up at https://crates.io/crates/libphosh . Thanks to @npub1fr8…zdgq for making it compatible with #phosh 0.41 .
This is hopefully the first release 🐸 can use out of the box.

2024-08-25 07:46:19

@npub1hk2…ytf8 and Gotam talking about #phosh at OOSC (https://oosc-next.vercel.app/):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZJ1d-n2xg

2024-08-19 13:00:42

While memory is still fresh I summed up my gist from helping to organize/run this years #FOSSOnMobile devroom at #FrOSCon: (https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/A_short_look_back_at_the_FOSS_on_Mobile_Devroom_at_FrOSCon_2024.html) in the hope that we can do another one next year (and there'd be people interested to participate again).
#LinuxMobile

2024-08-18 17:48:18

Yesterday I had the chance to give a short #phosh status update in the FOSS on Mobile devroom at #FrOSCon: https://programm.froscon.org/2024/events/3153.html
Slides are at: https://programm.froscon.org/2024/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/830/original/phosh-status.pdf

2024-08-18 12:08:46

@npub16ur…mx4u talking about the Linux phone app ecosystem in the FOSS on Mobile dev room at #FrOSCon
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/017/848/503/original/b8221472e7c45a88.jpeg

2024-08-17 08:26:42

Evangelos talking in the FOSS on Mobile Devroom at #FrOSCon 2024 about debugging the #phosh / #gnome stack. #LinuxMobile #ShotOnLibrem5
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/017/838/980/original/e19ad45a21b29755.jpeg

2024-08-14 14:57:29

I've tagged version 0.0.2 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.
This release focuses on making Matrix support in #chatty more robust, simplifying some APIs and improving the documentation (which is now automatically generated at https://agx.github.io/libcmatrix/)
See https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/releases/v0.0.2 for the list of changes and contributors.

2024-08-01 17:42:47

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@npub1rnq…7anc This is not about UX design but about having status pages early or wait for other things to land. We opted for early and iterating on it. You're free to not use that feature and totally ignore it.

2024-07-27 06:36:07

Gentle reminder: There'll be a #FossOnMobile devroom at #FrOSCon24 on 17./18. of August.
If you want to submit a talk, presentation, round table or BoF head to https://cfp.froscon.org/ .
All #LinuxMobile related topic welcome.

2024-07-19 16:12:03

Can't join #GUADEC (https://events.gnome.org/event/209/) this year but at least I can watch the live stream on a 📱 running a #gtk based shell (#phosh) and lots of #gnome components with a video player using GTK and #gstreamer (#livi). Life could be worse.
#LinuxMobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/017/581/617/original/635ad38a3a6e014c.png

2024-06-10 05:36:42

Our request for a #FossOnMobile devroom at #FrOSCon24 (17. / 18. of August) just got accepted 🚀 .
If you want to give a talk, do a BoF, round table or similar please add it to https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/froscon24-mobile and we'll try to accommodate it in the schedule.
#LinuxMobile

2024-05-21 10:31:30

Whenever I have to deal with #LinuxMobile on devices that formerly ran android I realize how super simple things like flashing and debugging are on the #Librem5 compared to that.
No odd partition schemes, no super sensitive boot loader that gives up on the first glitch. Just #uboot and if all else fails #jumpdrive.

2024-05-17 16:02:38

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@npub173m…zw5u Nice you like the release but wouldn't it be better to boost https://fosstodon.org/@phosh/112445825369450917 rather than copy the message verbatim?

2024-05-03 14:02:14

I've tagged a new release of mobile-broadband-provider-info:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20240407
It has updated providers, support for mms attachment size and we switched the build system to meson.
#gnome #phosh #LinuxMobile

2024-04-26 10:24:35

Laptop died yesterday but thanks to the #Librem5, the Baseus Dock, an HDMI Screen, a USB keyboard and #Phosh's docked mode I have access to most of the things via my phone.
#nitrokey helps a lot as that means I have my ssh keys available by just plugging it in.
Took me about 15min to notice that I didn't even plug a mouse in.
#LinuxMobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/855/429/original/60f9aabef3401ed1.jpeg

2024-04-20 12:25:56

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Forgot to add: toggling always-on-top will also get a visual indication in an upcoming #phoc release (likely 0.39.0).
#phosh #LinuxMobile #wlroots
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/804/186/original/8881dc310be9c03d.mp4

2024-03-23 12:17:52

While we try to find a suitable place for the clock in phosh's top bar when notches are present (since 0.29.0) we didn't take rounded corners into account as most of the time the left and right padding would be enough.
With more devices like the #fairphone5 and #xiaomi daisy showing up as being used with #phosh we need to care about that too:
#LinuxMobile #gtk
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/560/920/original/5a02cab23a02b6e1.png

2024-03-16 17:16:09

With a bit of help from #phoc the next phosh-osk-stub release can (optionally) hide when a keyboard gets attached.
#phosh #LinuxMobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/501/170/original/a0e187f9825bddf2.mp4

2024-03-02 18:21:03

My #FreeSoftware activities in February (at least the ones I remember): https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_February_2024.html
#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian

2024-03-01 15:48:11

I kept unlocking the 📱 a lot to check a cars charging status. Using #phosh's launcher-box lockscreen-plugin and the LauncherEntry DBus protocol we can simplify that and have the information easily accessible:
#gtk #EV #gnome #LinuxMobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/368/217/original/e98d207e11e8700b.mp4

2024-02-29 11:37:27

Looks like spring is coming: just turned on automatic high contrast in #phosh for the first time this year.

2024-02-15 16:52:33

If you're using #phosh in docked mode a lot and (like me) play videos while doing other things then upcoming changes in #phoc to have apps always-on-top and keybindings to move windows into screen corners might be helpful:
#LinuxMobile #gtk #wlroots
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/238/508/original/6d3f1a331fcbe573.mp4

2024-02-08 15:21:24

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@npub16ur…mx4u Just so that no one panics: Even without `GSK_RENDERER=gl` #gtk falls back to that renderer automatically. It prints a warning for every surface though so setting the env var does make sense.

2024-02-06 12:37:14

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You're losing customers that way as they turn to products that don't require these kind of apps.
A public website accessible via any web browser makes not only us but also you independent from Apple's and Google's duopoly.
(Boosts appreciated, let's not get forced more and more into proprietary app stores)
2️⃣ /2️⃣

2024-02-06 12:36:00

Dear companies,
please don't make having access to Google's or Apple's app stores to use your products a requirement.
This locks so many of us out because we either don't have a compatible device or the device doesn't have the software to access these services (like google play services).
#WebNotApp
1️⃣ /2️⃣

2024-02-03 16:06:35

In case you want to support my work on #LinuxMobile and #Phosh financially i've added some options to https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/donations/

2024-01-27 16:14:05

I finally resumed work on the MR that allows for a non solid background in #phosh's overview. There still some lose ends, but it's progressing:
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/016/074/267/original/52445a08befaa857.mp4

2024-01-23 12:59:22

In order to not bore people interested in #phosh with my other ramblings/boosts (and the other way around) we've setup a dedicated account @npub1ulc…fp4c. It made it to >350 follows in not even two days which is great 🚀 thanks a lot for your interest!. 🤩
(I'll keep boosting phosh related things here for a little bit to ease the switch)

2024-01-19 17:27:13

I've released version 0.0.6 of livi - the little video player for mobile: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi/-/releases/v0.0.6
While this also adds a bunch of new features like language and subtitle selection it mostly moved things closer to the designs. We have a wide mode for docked/desktop mode now and autohiding of panels, etc.
#phosh #gnome #gtk #video #gstreamer
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/999/521/original/d8534c1218b87bd6.png

2024-01-15 13:39:19

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@npub1920…ksgt @npub1ug4…d762 They're usually not needed as you can move the cursor by long pressing <space> but if wanted you can add them to the shortcuts bar:
gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk.Terminal shortcuts "['Down', 'Up', 'Left', 'Right' ]"
(add other shortcuts to the [] as needed)

2024-01-14 17:12:37

Livi (a little video player for #LinuxMobile) (but it also has a wide mode for convergent use now) will soon remember stream positions so it's easy to continue watching. Here's how it looks in #phosh :
#gtk
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/951/270/original/f3f81ed8714c058a.png

2024-01-07 15:46:06

phosh 0.35.0 is out 🚀📱:
Among other QoL improvements this fixes the suspend inhibitor when using your phone as a WiFi hotspot and gives more screen estate due to a narrow home bar (by mathew-dennis),
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.35.0/
#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

2024-01-05 16:27:46

...and it allows to paste screenshots for apps that don't allow to paste directly.

2023-12-31 11:37:13

A short look back at what happened around #phosh in 2023:
https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-2023-in-retrospect/
#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnome #gtk

2023-12-25 14:26:06

I've released #livi 0.0.5, a little video player mostly targeting mobile: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi
Among other things we make better use of screen estate in landscape even when not fullscreen.
#phosh #gnome #linuxmobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/768/489/original/f4069c762c576c1d.png

2023-12-20 17:30:21

Every now and then people wonder how to replace #phosh's on screen keyboard and what interfaces are needed. Here's some notes on that: https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-osk-interface/
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/722/193/original/4c518fabc031f6b1.mp4

2023-12-20 17:25:03

phosh 0.34.1 is out 🚀📱:
This fixes two user visible regressions that crept into 0.34.0.
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.34.1/
#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/722/152/original/4e27440f5d47fafd.png

2023-12-10 17:16:03

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Some bits about #cellbroadcast support coming to #phosh via #ModemManager: https://phosh.mobi/posts/cellbroadcast/
#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnome
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/626/258/original/7b4269bb01cbd2d9.jpg

2023-12-06 15:51:50

He look, 🎅 just dropped #phosh 0.34.0 🚀 📱 . The bulk of things happened on the Wayland compositor side but the phone shell and other bits also got some improvements and fixes.
Check the detailed release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.34.0/
#librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/584/873/original/8e99c03a6e581af5.png

2023-12-04 16:45:39

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@npub1a3h…m44m @npub1l76…yuy0 @npub1e9g…kvc5 somewhat similar yes, it's simpler though as those are r/o (whereas the messaging interface can also compose sms), part matching is also somewhat different, and there's a replacement feature to replace outdated alerts.

2023-11-17 20:03:11

If you're running #phoc's development branch (main, tracking #wlroots git) on a device with split display controller and gpu (like the #librem5 with #etnaviv and mxsfb / dcss) make sure to set
WLR_RENDER_DRM_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD128
export WLR_RENDER_DRM_DEVICE
in ~/.phoshdebug as otherwise GTK4 (and lots of other things) will fail to render anything. GTK3 and #phosh itself will work fine.
This doesn't apply when you run nested of e.g. with intel graphics.
#phosh

2023-10-29 20:24:12

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@npub16ur…mx4u Enjoy vacation!

2023-10-23 18:37:15

I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway).
Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.
This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.
I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/015/142/229/original/72480f99e4161c9c.png

2023-10-21 15:00:07

Interesting talk by Michael Tretter at #xdc2023 about Wayland shells on embedded systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK2Emqp9t0g&t=14240s
also mentioning #phosh, #phoc and #wlroots

2023-10-09 07:50:58

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This weeks update mentions the Q3 LinuxPhoneApp update which I had missed before: https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/new-listed-apps-q3-2023/
Adding new apps to LinuxPhoneApp is easy and can be done by everyone. It's a good chance to help to improve the ecosystem. 📱

2023-10-03 13:56:27

Had the need to charge an all electric Kia recently and guess what: both the charging stations app and the vendor's app are proprietary so how would I know when charging finished?
Turns out people around #HomeAssistant figured out the vendor API so I could use that to have a small app to monitor the charging status on my #Librem5 running #phosh
#gtk #gnome #MobileLinux #ev
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/937/876/original/be1dd7be8884c898.png

2023-09-17 09:15:24

Dear @npub10ss…j5qd if you sell computers and use Free Software Operating systems it is not o.k. to assume you can free ride on community support.
It makes me sad to have mails from users in my inbox that are stuck with an unusable device on a Sunday and are seeking help to get it going again. This is your job.
Please listen to your customer's issue. If it's a software issue in the latest upstream version forward it with a good description.
Screenshot is from https://junocomputers.com/product/juno-tablet/
1️⃣ /2️⃣
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/793/907/original/b2871b85b67d7f82.png

2023-09-15 17:07:42

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@npub1sac…86su @npub13w4…74x3 @npub15p8…z6gv It's https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub

2023-09-15 16:13:35

Progress in supporting Indic languages in phosh-osk-stub:
- merged initial completer support for Indic languages based on libvarnam earlier this week
- have an MR to switch from libvarnam to more modern govarnam (thx @npub13w4…74x3
- @npub15p8…z6gv is looking into making all the possible completions available
- have an MR to allow to switch between different completion engines automatically (e.g. use #hunspell for Us & De and #varnam for #Malayalam (see video below)
#phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk
1️⃣ /2️⃣
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/776/821/original/c63e3592dcb29239.mp4

2023-08-31 10:57:28

Thanks to @npub1gch…kvrh libcall-ui's main branch now uses GTK4/libadwaita. We've also tagged 0.2.0~beta1 for that.
For GTK3/libhandy applications there's still the 0.1.x branch.
#gtk #gnome #phosh
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/636/407/original/fcfea3c4d9925333.png

2023-08-13 18:43:57

There is a long standing issue in #phoc (the #wayland compositor used with #phosh (but as I recently learned also other projects like #bananui) that makes windows flip their size when crossing a screen edge (as tiling is (incorrectly) kicking in). This makes dragging windows around in docked mode harder than necessary.
This is about to improve and (thanks to the ground work over the past months) we can also add some visual feedback:
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/477/157/original/79a9efe1243a8a1e.mp4

2023-08-10 15:31:59

Car picks up the bluetooth audio from my #Librem5 running #phosh just fine:
1️⃣ /3️⃣
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/445/248/original/9699fe278b315aaf.png

2023-08-07 17:01:07

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@npub16ur…mx4u @npub1qjt…uxd3 Added the slides to https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2988.html

2023-08-05 12:41:54

Lightning talks in #FroSCon's mobile devroom. @npub16ur…mx4u talking about https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/
#LinuxMobile #ShotOnLibrem5
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/395/061/original/6cce5c7fafa005db.jpeg

2023-08-04 10:17:24

#FroSCon starts tomorrow and we're having a short #phosh get together in the 📱 devroom (C117) at 16:30. Everyone interested is invited to share some #MobileLinux stories, attach names to faces and 🍾 the 0.30.0 release.
https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2990.html

2023-07-06 14:22:14

phosh 0.29.0 is out 🚀📱:
This release brings Improved audio device selection, notifications for ongoing calls, a new sensors panel (thanks @npub122l…38gt) suspend from system menu (thanks undef) and more!
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.29.0/
#phosh #librem5 @npub173m…zw5u #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/014/076/131/original/4ad5057aa16febd1.png

2023-06-25 17:25:19

While one could get back to an ongoing call on #phosh's lockscreen by swiping
to the right it wasn't clear if there was still a call ongoing. This will be
improved by showing a notification on the lockscreen making it hard to miss (and which we can likely also use to switch between calls once the calls app supports it):
1️⃣ /3️⃣
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/959/278/original/422b44d8bc15107b.mp4

2023-06-24 10:42:56

Simplifying audio device selection in #phosh (which also needs a tweak in #pipewire to get nice icons on #LinuxMobile too):
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/946/675/original/a353b6b9c957dadf.mp4

2023-06-12 12:09:48

It's summer on the northern hemisphere again 😎 so #phosh's automatic high contrast mode got two updates that are already merged and hence will very likely be in 0.29.0:
1️⃣ /3️⃣

2023-06-10 13:15:04

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@npub1pnz…uqm8 Here's he link to the announcement from the PureOS team: https://lists.puri.sm/pipermail/pureos-project/2023-June/000349.html which also has information for those still using #PureOS amber

2023-06-01 17:14:07

phosh 0.28.0 is out 🚀📱:
There's quality of life and visual improvements both in phone and docked mode.
Check the release notes for details: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.28.0/
#phosh #librem5 @npub173m…zw5u #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/734/975/original/15fdb630882e38e5.png

2023-05-10 19:12:49

Testing the new merge request to set lockscren wallpapers in #phosh while waiting for vodafone's hotline to *please* fix out internet connection (which they fail to do so for seven days in a row now).
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/526/368/original/cd90bc2b76b1d80f.png
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/526/379/original/6fd5b5f656c6b48b.png

2023-05-02 16:20:11

phosh 0.27.0 is out 🚀📱:
This one has a new menu on power button long press, initial emergency calls support (thanks @npub1hw4…nhrf, @npub122l…38gt), improvements on the compositor side, new completers in phosh-osk-stub, configurable ring tones and more.
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.27.0/
#phosh #librem5 @npub173m…zw5u #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/440/609/original/84c551e83d882ce8.png

2023-04-25 17:03:56

Ever since doing the initial completion support in #phosh 's osk-stub I wanted to add a generic "unix pipe" like completer. phosh-osk-stub would feed the program preedit on stdin and read the completions from the program's stdout.
That is there now and with that and some more changes I can use #[0] 's #swipeGuess to do swipe like typing. To be clear: all the hard work is done by swipeGuess, phosh-osk-stub just piggy backs on it:
#LinuxMobile #gtk #gnome #librem5
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/368/101/original/d54ee798fe7e909a.mp4

2023-04-12 08:15:06

Completely forget: I've tagged version 0.0.3 of μPlayer (a small video player using #[0] and #[1] targeting fullscreen landscape playback on mobile phones) the other day:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi/-/tags/v0.0.3
#[2] #[3] #[4] #[5]
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/228/384/original/7cab55f49c87fdfb.png

2023-04-03 18:20:56

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...for my usage pattern the fact that mpv can now successfully disable the screensaver is the most notable improvement in this release 📺 .

2023-04-03 11:07:19

phosh 0.26.0 is out 🚀📱:
Lots of this release was internal rewiring and test suite improvements for upcoming changes but there's some more:
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.26.0/
#[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7]
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/013/138/841/original/3a081cfd5cf988bf.png