Guido Günther

#Phosh #LinuxMobile #Debian in no particular order

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2026-06-30 17:56:05 CEST

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There's also a toggle when you unfold the menu below the brightness slider. This can be useful when you wan to turn it on/off quickly.
https://media.ruhr.social/ruhr-social/media_attachments/files/116/839/867/567/146/013/original/eb5b6c5da7c74c50.png

2025-09-08 11:26:16 CEST

Finally got to add support for getting emergency numbers from mobile-broadband-provider-info into #gnome #calls. I guess once that landed we can turn emergency calling on by default in #phosh .
https://media.ruhr.social/ruhr-social/media_attachments/files/115/167/948/046/637/297/original/818cadd04064bb08.mp4

2025-08-21 15:22:43 CEST

While the #matrix network is going through a major version room upgrade to version 12 (https://matrix.org/blog/2025/08/security-release/) you might wonder if #chatty works with that room version. Seems so:
#gtk #phosh #LinuxMobile
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2025-06-05 18:03:52 CEST

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#Debian's experimental distribution now has #ModemManager / #libqmi snapshots to test this more easily. These versions also include support for qmi based modems as found in the #OP6, #Pixel3a and similar devices
Upstream snapshots announced here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2025-June/010050.html
#phosh #LinuxMobile

2025-05-19 10:04:10 CEST

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That won't help the PP though as that is GLES2 only. It'll fall back to software rendering for GTK4 apps but there's some CSS tweaks for GTK4 that make that smoother by dropping some shadows. Maybe that could go into the PP tweaks package?

2025-05-18 22:37:27 CEST

#phosh-osk-stub is now #stevia 🎹 . The rename wants to reflect that
- it's not just a stub
- typing should hopefully be "sweet"
(and it allows us to keep the "pos_" symbol prefix).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/stevia
Thanks to @npub1lvx…7l08 for the help in finding the name!

2025-05-05 19:33:36 CEST

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·..and here's how the volume controls currently look in mobile settings. We get the list of controls from #wireplumber too and
#phosh's volume slider gets the highest priority volume so the top panel's volume slider does "the right thing" by default. (I've linked the related MRs from https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/meta-phosh/-/issues/20)
https://media.ruhr.social/ruhr-social/media_attachments/files/114/456/416/663/362/688/original/7017f8372aa4ac96.png

2025-05-05 19:30:14 CEST

With the alarm clock waking the phone from suspend we still need to make sure the alarm sound is audible. We thus need it to have a volume level separate from e.g. media, notifications, calls, etc. This is possible with #wireplumber's "role based policy". There's a lot of lose ends to fix before this all can land but here's a quick demo in #phosh (the alarm sound your is played via #feedbackd which adds the necessary role):
#LinuxMobile
https://media.ruhr.social/ruhr-social/media_attachments/files/114/456/367/605/606/718/original/dcc8c29fc5cd9471.mp4

2025-05-01 14:29:58 CEST

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My #FreeSoftware Activities for April 2025: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_April_2025.html
honk.sigxcpu.org
Mostly #phosh/#LinuxMobile (e.g. alarm-clock, #feedbackd, #Cellbroadcast) related but also some #Debian bits.
🙏 to everyone supporting this!

2025-04-29 13:43:56 CEST

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Awesome work @npub1n6z…v2dl 🚀

2025-04-29 13:38:57 CEST

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In case that helps:
I can confirm mesa as of c844409b895d9fe033bbe6e834096bac91941442
is able to use GTK4's GL renderer with:
MESA_GLES_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 gtk4-demo
on the #Librem5 and
MESA_GLES_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 livi ~/Big_Buck_Bunny_360_10s_5MB.mp4
is also able to play videos (which wouldn't work with the cairo renderer either) (and is at nice ~10% CPU)
EDIT: I havent' checked what exactly is needed for that that could be backported to Trixie)

2025-04-28 17:21:20 CEST

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pointed out https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104029 so maybe give that at try (in case you ended up wanting to try this due to #gtk 4.18 dropping support for older GLES?)

2025-04-28 15:11:23 CEST

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Either get NXP's kernel to boot (by supplying a matching device tree (and potentially bringing over missing drivers) or copy NXP's kernel's graphics stack over to Purism's tree (also adjusting device tree) and bring over the binary blobs from their reference image.
Both ways are not actually fun, I'd rather spend time on improving the mesa driver.

2025-04-04 10:22:17 CEST

I'd like to understand how Android handles some QMI bits and found tooling by @npub18zj…3hz5 for that on the @npub1vnu…8mqn wiki (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Modem_Debugging). That needs a patched Android kernel, so I took some notes how I got that to work on a Pixel 3a. Just in case this is useful to others: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Booting_an_Android_custom_kernel_on_a_Pixel_3a_for_QMI_debugging.html
#LinuxMobile #phosh #ModemManager

2025-04-01 10:04:57 CEST

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April 1st joke free personal #FreeSoftware Activities for March 2025: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2025.html
#phosh #LinuxMobile #Debian #ModemManager

2025-03-06 17:46:32 CET

@npub1y00…hx98 reported some issues with #xwaylandvideobridge and #phosh and it turned out it uses _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY which was proposed > 2️⃣ 0️⃣ years ago to be added to the wm-spec (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2003-December/001413.html) but never landed although Qt, GTK and others use (or used) it.
That just changed (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/97) and we also already have #wlroots support now too so phosh can happily use it too.
But maybe I'm the only person that finds this kind of archeology exciting 🙃 .

2025-02-18 19:07:55 CET

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No idea. Just in case: I use
Gapless com.github.neithern.g4music 4.3 stable flathub user
and use dark theme with "background blur mode: always"

2025-02-17 20:27:48 CET

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It's gapless (in dark mode)

2025-02-03 19:09:16 CET

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Just noticed: the link to Linux Phone news lacks an `.html`. : https://fossphones.com/01-31-25.html

2025-02-01 12:39:58 CET

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…nothing to see here, please move along. Status update for January 25: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_January_2025.html
#phosh #LinuxMobile

2025-01-21 15:49:33 CET

Current state of the 🌎 shows me again how important it is that the 📱 in our pockets can stay free of surveilance and be used as their users intend to, not any corporation.
This is even more motivation to hack on #phosh and #LinuxMobile

2025-01-19 14:51:11 CET

A while back Adam (@npub1f9r…d662) built a #phosh plugin that adds a quick setting allowing to switch output resolutions (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1601). I cleaned that up a little to avoid shelling out (so phosh can have an idea what's going on) and added a status page and we were just be able to land that on main:
#LinuxMobile #gtk
https://media.ruhr.social/ruhr-social/media_attachments/files/113/855/316/671/013/214/original/89c65794c144017a.mp4

2025-01-01 10:08:31 CET

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…and here's my #FreeSoftware status update for December 24: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_December_2024.html
#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian #gnome #sigxcpu #gbp

2024-12-04 21:31:36 CET

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as I said: you can bring up shell chrome and unfullscreen via OSK for the case where the app remembers the fullscreen state (still not ideal but making this an option on the apps thumbnail would be rather simple)
At least with the apps I use in fullscreen (e.g. epiphany) this works as expected (although epiphany now has a button nowadays)

2024-12-04 20:03:09 CET

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On #phosh you should be able to swipe from top to bring up shell chrome and then either close the app or unfullscreen via OSK. (Seems the Phosh you're running is very old but it should already work in those versions).

2024-12-01 09:46:13 CET

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…and here's my #FreeSoftware status update for November 24: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_November_2024.html
#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian #gnome #sigxcpu

2024-11-04 18:59:19 CET

Am 16.11.2024 treffen wir uns in der @npub1jcg…jyv0 in #Bonn zum @npub1e7a…trdk Meetup.
Wir starten um 15:00 und hacken, diskutieren, flashen 📱 und was sonst noch so dazugehört.
Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen.
Details: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/wikis/Phosh-Hackfests,-Get-Togethers,-%E2%80%A6#phosh-meetup-in-datenburg
#phosh #LinuxMobile