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#Phosh #LinuxMobile #Debian in no particular order

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With more mobile distros shipping a #feedbackd enabled alarm clock we can show the UI to make the alarm sound configurable with a bit of heuristic (to make sure it's not configurable when not supported):

#phosh #linuxmobile
A screenshot from a phone runnig phosh. The feedback panel allows to configure the sounds for incoming phone calls, SMS, instant messaging and the alarm clock.
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I keep posting these until it gets boring: #cellbroadcast received yesterday on a #oneplus6t running #phosh , #cellbroadcastd and #modemmanager . Just showed up, no fiddling, just using distro packages.

Although the project finished some months ago: Thanks to @NGIZero for funding work on this.
A screenshot from a Phone running Phosh. It shows a test cellbroadcast message from the Vodafone network.
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Been working on two small improvements for #stevia (a user friendly on-screen keyboard for #phosh):

1️⃣ Text auto complete automatically adds a space when inserting a word. We now remove that when the next word is a punctuation mark like a full stop (.) or comma […]

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September 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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…and this is how it looks like in the history (timestamps are currently UTC, we'll fix that).
Screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The mobile settings app is open and show the cell broadcast settings and message history.
September 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Received the #cellbroadcast messages from Bundesweiter Warntag 2025 on both #oneplus6t and #librem5 on #phosh 0.49.
Foto of two phones: A OnePlus 6 and a Librem 5 both running Phosh 0.49. They show the Cell Broadcast message from "Bundesweiter Warntag 2025"
September 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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 .
September 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Just catched another #cellbroadcast test message. This time without any complications. ( Running #phosh 0. 49. 0)

@devrtz @NGIZero

#linuxmobile
A screenshot from a phone running phosh . It shows a dialog with a cellbroadcast message
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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
A screenshot from chatty displaying the "Chat deatails" of a chat. One line says: Room version: 12
August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The first talk in this years #fossonmobile devroom at @FrOSCon was by @1peter10 titled

"Which Phone to get to run Mobile Linux on?"

As you can see in the picture easy photo taking can be one of them.

There was some lively discussion about options, Android […]

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An unsharp photo of a slide saying "Common Problems"
August 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Catching a real world and *unexpected* #cellbroadcast message revealed some minor bugs in #phosh and its mobile settings but those were easy to spotted and fixes will land for 0.49. Overall #modemmanager, #cbd, and #phosh picked the message up as expected (and the channel setting worked as well):
A screenshot from a phone running phosh. It displays a cellbroadcast test message received from Vodafone. A screenshot from the same phone. This time showing the cell broadcast message in the mobile settings app.
August 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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More bits of #phoc's upcoming workspace support falling into place. It can now show a small indicator in the top left corner when switching work spaces:

#phosh #linuxmobile
August 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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You can configure #stevia's scaling features via phosh-mobile-settings now too:

#linuxmobile #phosh
A screenshot of phosh-mobile-settings's OSK panel. It shows two switches to configure the keyboard's scaling: - keep physical size constant - add empty space below keys
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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When going to higher display resolutions in #phosh #stevia's 🎹 can become a bit small to type with (as our ☝️s usually don't adjust to display size). I've thus cooked up an MR that allows to keep the physical size of the OSK constant (in portrait mode for now) […]

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A screenshot of Phosh with the on screen keyboard unfolded. The resolution is at 250%. The keyboard's key area takes up 4cm of the screen (excluding the auto completion bar). There's a 0.8 cm zone without keys at the bottom. gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk scaling "['auto-portrait', 'bottom-dead-zone']" A screenshot of Phosh with the on screen keyboard unfolded. The resolution is at 200%. The keyboard's key area takes up 4cm of the screen (excluding the auto completion bar). There's a 0.8 cm zone without keys at the bottom. gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk scaling "['auto-portrait', 'bottom-dead-zone']" A screenshot of Phosh with the on screen keyboard unfolded. The resolution is at 300%..The keyboard's key area takes up 4cm of the screen (excluding the auto completion bar). There's a 0.8 cm zone without keys at the bottom. gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk scaling "['auto-portrait', 'bottom-dead-zone']" A screenshot of Phosh with the on screen keyboard unfolded. The resolution is at 250%.The keyboard's key area takes up 4cm of the screen (excluding the auto completion bar). gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk scaling "['auto-portrait']"
July 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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@devrtz @NGIZero @snwh …and as a service to user interfaces/DEs that don't want to add explicit #cellbroadcast support #cbd can now send notifications. Just enabling the setting is enough.

This is configurable on a severity level so you could use a system modal […]

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A notification in phosh's notification tray. Subject: "Extreme Danger Alert" Body: "This is a test message on channel 4371"
June 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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One thing that bothered me since some time is that for switching between different 🎶 players required to🔓 the 📱 .

So e.g. pausing #gnome podcasts to listen to music via #gapless needed ever so many steps. I've thus added a lockscreen plugin to #phosh that tracks […]

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A screenshot of a smart phone running phosh. The phone is locked and shows the lock lockscreen plugins page. The currently selected plugin shows two media player widgets tracking running media players on the system via mpris: one for podcasts (a podcast player) and one for gapless (a music player)
June 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Another #cellbroadcast bit coming to #phosh / #linuxmobile. The results of the users choice are set in the modem via a small daemon based on information we're getting from mobile-broadband-provider-info. That way only the tiny UI bit is DE specific, the other […]

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A screenshot from a mobile phone running phosh. The mobile settings application is open showing a "Emergency Alerts" panel. The use can enable/disable different kind of alerts like "Extreme Threat" or "Public Safety Alerts"
May 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Hopefully a (optional) popup indicating the just typed character in #phosh-osk-stub will help me reduce typos even more.

Wanted to add this since ages but I deemed my GTK foo not good enough to have the popover ignore any input and be always properly placed but […]

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May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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 panels' volume slider does "the right thing" by default.
A screenshot of Phosh's mobile settings app. It shows different volume sliders for media, alarm, notifications, ringtones and emergency alerts.
May 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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 […]

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May 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#phosh-osk-stub has an #emoji layout since some time but that takes some tapping and scrolling to find an emoji.

So I added emojis to the completion bar which makes them easier to select (and the MR also adds some infra to add more "supplementary" results to […]

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May 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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In case you're using a @frameworkcomputer 13 Laptop and want to use the power LED as status LED for #feedbackd (to be notified aboutnotifications in #phosh, etc) you can use this #udev rule […]

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April 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Not much news on other mobile platforms but I needed a reliable clock that wakes me up even when the 📱 is suspended so I added some boottime clock support to #gnomeclocks.

This together with #feedbackd support can be found in […]

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April 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Since it's ☀️ outside: if you're using #munin monitoring and #Hoymiles inverters with #openDTU: I've written (a while back) a small munin plugin to get some graphs:

https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/munin-pelletronic/tree/opendtu_

(nothing fancy but maybe useful to others)

#balkonsolar #Steckersolar
RRD/munin graph of solar power by day from two Hoymiles inverters. The legend has been cut off for privacy reasons.
April 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Nice, just a small fix and #phosh's compositor #phoc runs with #wlroots vulkan renderer on the OnePlus6T:
Log output from a OnePlus6T running #phoc with the Vulkan renderer.
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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A limitation of using #phosh in docked mode (having an external 🖥️ , 🖱️ ⌨️ attached to your 📱 ) was that #phoc wouldn't support multiple workspaces. There's an MR that adds initial workspace support now (which might even land for 0.46):
March 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM