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

April 1st joke free personal #FreeSoftware Activities for March 2025: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2025.html
phosh 0.46.0 is out :
There's fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see
for a short
to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
The small N900 screen was good, since a resistive-screen stylus controlled all those linux app buttons so easily. No finger-width spacing! The stylus was simple plastic, easy to replace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
I read makers saying they don't want to make room for a stylus, but honestly I would be willing to hold mine on with a rubberband, to get that level of touch-screen control again.
Dear distro maintainers and "i build my own stuff" people:
In case you want to check out 0.46 relesae upfront: we've tagged the first releases candidates (0.46~rc1) of #phosh and related components today.
Release is planned 2025-03-31 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/wikis/Releases)
The bulk of the changes landed already so hopefully it's only bugfixes from here on.
In preparation for the upcoming phosh release we've released new versions of #gmobile 0.2.0 and #feedbackd 0.8.0. Feedbackd is now more flexible regarding haptic feedback for events so if e.g. feedback is too intrusive (or too weak) you can consider submitting adjustment for your device to https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd-device-themes/
@NekoCWD @postmarketOS Nice! It made current (unreleased) #phoc crash but that's fixed (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/merge_requests/663)
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (11/2025): #Libadwaita 1.7 and news from #Sxmo
I didn't get the memo that there is "Landesweiter #Warntag" in RLP today and was surprised by the sirens. The #pinephone I use for testing catched the #cellbroadcast message :
[/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/CBM/4] new cbm: received
4383: TEST ALERT for Rheinland-Pfalz Thu 2025/03/13 - 10:00 am - Test alert - for Rheinland-Pfalz - There is no danger. - Further information: https://warnung.bund.de/m/VzsFymNy9PEW - Published by: Lagezentrum Bevölkerungsschutz Rheinland-Pfalz
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (09, 10/2025): Too much to put in a title
so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)
the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)
The initial draft MR to put a wallpaper on #phosh's lockscreen is now >1.5y old but it's not draft any longer (I'll spare you the details why this took so long).
Oh, and regarding the calendar's notification not doing any buzzing: just assign any feedback to the `notification-new-generic` , event in the feedback theme.
We don't do that atm when a notification doesn't set a category to not make people go crazy.
Now with more nuanced haptic we might emit s.th. by default though, so I've opened https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/160 but this is already configurable in current releases, just need to add an event to the theme.
@benedikt reported some issues with #xwaylandvideobridge and #phosh and it turned out it uses _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY which was proposed >
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 .
@furilabs What is happening in the picture? Am I seeing wired external display?
Not pleased with #Fedora KDE #PlasmaMobile on my StarLite. It’s fairly slow, Bluetooth wouldn’t connect easily, and screen locking broke.
The screen locked after 5 minutes but it said the Lock Screen was broken. I had to Ctrl-Alt-F3 into a text terminal and loginctl unlock-session 2. What if I didn’t have a keyboard connected?
Later the Lock Screen worked but it demanded a PIN. I never set a PIN. Thankfully it accepted my password typed on my keyboard.
Let’s see if #Phosh on Debian works.