phosh

Screenshot from a OnePlus6T running phosh. The phone screen shows an alert dialog in German.

Another #cellbroadcast test that went smoothly on #phosh (and the receive wasn't even aware that this one was scheduled🙃):

#LinuxMobile

Nur noch 2,5 Wochen bis zu den Chemnitzer Linuxtagen. Der Phosh e.V. hat einen eigenen Stand und dort könnt ihr alles Rund um Linux auf mobilen Geräten erfahren. Wir haben einige Testgeräte dabei und freuen uns schon darauf mit Euch ins Gespräch zu kommen. https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/ #clt2026 […]

The mobile-config-firefox documentation has been split up into multiple pages (from mostly a single README.md file), was updated, and is now available at https://docs.postmarketos.org/mobile-config-firefox/ for comfortable reading. For example… with Firefox on your Linux Mobile phone! 😉

The ✏️ […]

Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 ## Where and when The Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 will take place from Friday _22.05.2026_ _18:00_ to Sunday _24.05.2026_ _17:00_ in the Linuxhotel, Essen, Germany. We’ll work two days together on a user friendly mobile phone ecosystem for everyone. ## Who should attend All Phosh contributors are invited, attendance is _not_ limited to Phosh.mobi e.V. members. It doesn’t matter if you’re contributing to a software component, contribute artwork, help users or package for a distribution. Our aim is to get everyone interested together so we can discuss future plans and work on concrete topics. We currently have room for up to 15 people. ## Location Essen is located in the Ruhrgebiet in Germany. The Linuxhotel is in Essen Horst. ### How to get there It is easy to reach by railway or car: * Location on Openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35932120 * Closest railway station is _Horst S-Bahnhof Essen (Ruhr)_ served by line _S3_ from Essen main station. Walking directions by foot from the train station to the hotel are here * Closest airports are Düsseldorf (DUS), Dortmund (DTM) and Cologne (CGN). See LinuxHotel Anreise for more details on how to get to the location. ### Getting around * Seminar room. This is where the event takes place during the day. * Sleeping * Breakfast * Parking if you arrive by car ## What to bring Mostly you, your ideas and the computing devices you need. The rooms are fully equipped so no need to bring towels or sleeping bags unless you don’t _want_ to sleep in a bed and prefer the conference room floor or a tent (which you’d also have to bring). ## Schedule ### Friday * from 18:00 Arrival, build agenda of topics to discuss / work on * 20:00: Dinner on site * 21:00: Hacking / discussions ### Saturday * 9:00 - 10:00: Breakfast * 10:00: Hacking / discussions * 13:00: Lunch on site * 14:00: Hacking / discussions * 18:00: Lightning talks * starting ~19:00 barbecue (weather permitting) * 21:00: Hacking / discussions ### Sunday * Leave sleeping rooms ’til 9:00 so they can be cleaned * 9:00: Breakfast * 10:00: Hacking / discussions * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Hacking / discussions * Departure ’til 17:00 ## Food and Accommodation Breakfast will be served at Linuxhotel. For lunch and dinner we’ll either order something or go out to a nearby restaurant / diner to leave the keyboard for a couple of hours. Weather permitting we can also have a barbecue. If you have any special food requirements please let us know with your application. Rooms are double rooms with separate beds and an additional sleeping couch. Depending on the number of participants they’ll be shared by two or three people. There’s pictures on their web page. ## Can I eat / sleep elsewhere Sure, you can organize accommodation and/or food on your own if you prefer. ## Costs Accommodation, attendance fee and food will be covered by Phosh.mobi e.V. If you want to help us with covering the costs consider making a donation. We have set a small budget for travel sponsorship. If you need travel support to attend, please let us know the amount with your application. ## How to register If you intend to attend, please send a mail to confis@phosh.mobi with the following details (skip things you don’t care/know yet): * Any roommate preference, rooms are double rooms with separate beds * Food preferences / restrictions * Date of arrival / departure * If you need travel sponsorship and if so a rough amount. We can then check the budget and get back to you. * In case you don’t want to be mentioned by name as attending * If already known: The things you plan to work on, things you want to plan / discuss at the meeting. * Pronouns Registration closes 2026-03-31. ## Confirmed attendees These people intend to participate: Name | From | To ---|---|--- Achill Gilgenast | Fri | Sun Benedikt Wildenhain | Sun | Sun Dana Gruschwitz | Fri | Sun David Heidelberg | Fri | Sun Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras | Fri | Sun Guido Günther | Fri | Sun Kevin Anton | Fri | Sun Nicole Faerber | Fri | Sun Prawn | Fri | Sun Romina Tidona | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun TBC | Fri | Sun ## List of Supporters The following individuals supported the event with a donation: * Guido Günther * Manuel Traut * Ondrej Kolin * 5 donors that want to remain private Without their donations this wouldn’t be possible. Thank you! If you donated and your name doesn’t show up here (e.g. because you didn’t set the check mark in the form) but want to be listed, let us know and we’ll fix that. If you’re a company, want to sponsor the event and want to see your logo here, let let us know. ## Getting in touch Any questions? Join us on matrix. ## Health and Safety We welcome and encourage participation by everyone interested therefore all attendees are expected to adhere to the Code of conduct. In order to allow everyone to stay healthy please follow these simple rules: If you feel sick before the event, please don’t attend and inform the organizers. Should you feel sick during the event: * Request a COVID-19 self-test from the organizers * Avoid enclosed spaces with uninfected attendees * Wear a mask whenever around others Please help us keep the venue ventilated. It’s almost summer time so infection numbers should be low but let’s be on the safe side.

Gentle reminder: If you intend to attend the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026 in May, please apply! See https://ev.phosh.mobi/pcm/pcm-2026/ for details.

We're also happy about donations to reach our funding goal for the event.

#pcm2026 #phosh #LinuxMobile

Tip: if your phone doesn't have a notification LED, it is broken or not yet supported by the kernel you can use the camera flash 📸 :

#peertube:https://peertube.debian.social/w/h6sSCuAZDfSQHuBJfaceCG

#youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6IbIR2jw6-4

#LinuxMobile #phosh #feedbackd

We put these videos also on #peertube https://peertube.debian.social/w/rMLoi1cTAEhMVmnweg7gqk and #youtube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CPyLpeXypV0 in case you prefer it over there.

This will also help #LinuxMobile as well. There'are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia:

https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587

Development News February 2026 Here’s our second development progress update for 2026. This can still be a bit spotty, if you find something missing please provide a merge request. So what happened last month: The 0.53 release is a larger part but there’s also progress in syncthing integration, workspace support, first-boot and Asian language support in the on screen keyboard. Want to try this out already? See below. phosh Link to heading A shell for mobile devices

Our development summary for February is up: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-02/ .

#LinuxMobile #Phosh

Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl/project/Linux-MultiSIM/ .

Thanks a lot to @NGIZero for supporting this!

#phosh #gnome

We just landed initial support for Chinese (via pinyin) and Japanese (via anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳

As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things […]

Post by Phosh.mobi e.V., @ev@social.phosh.mobi Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳. Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and t…

Just had the annual meeting of @phosh e.V. It is now already one year since the founding meeting. It is great to see the progress by the #phosh contributors. Thank you all! 👏

https://social.phosh.mobi/@ev/statuses/01KJFMC950JFC27FF67E4NF6GQ

Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.

Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) […]

Didn't make it #FOSDEM? @devrtz 's talk about #Phosh's recent developments is available online: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/XHPZND-phosh-2026.av1.webm

The talks was presented using a phone running #phosh (beamer connected via usb-c) and #pdfrc .

Phosh 0.53.0 The Phosh 0.53.0 Release

Want to read more: Make sure to checkout the full release notes and our December and January progress reports.

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Regarding application launch splash: If an app isn't showing a splash screen on launch please report that to the application. This could be as simple as adding a single line to the desktop file (`StartupNotify=true`) or missing support for the relevant Wayland protocols (`xdg-activation-v1`) but […]

On the portal side we dropped the C implementations of the filechooser and wallpaper portal and reworked the remaining bits so we could drop the libadwaita and gtk dependencies. The Rust portal has now all the GUI bits and we fixed several issues there it should now be provide all the widgets […]

A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The mobile settings app is open and the users entered the shortcut `L` which is visible at the bottom of the dialog.

We now play a sound when adjusting volume sliders for different media roles (like ringtones or notifications) to make it easier to tune them in relationship to each other (by rudra). The dialog to add shortcuts to the on screen keyboard is now also […]

[Video] [Original post on social.phosh.mobi]

A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The mobile settings app is open showing the about panel with the Phosh logo, the used distro and device information.

The mobile settings app got a new about panel showing the Phosh version and device information:

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There were improvements in the worskpace and keysym handling (by tpikonen), we allow fullscreen windows to remain fullscreen when they lose focus (which helps games) and fixed some several other issues.

#phoc

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A screenshot from a phone running Bit Buck Bunny in landscape & fullscreen. The video player ensures that the video doesn't overlap with the wide top notch. To make this more visible the compositor render the notch area and rounded corners in purple.

#phoc gained support for the xx-cutouts-v1 Wayland protocol to inform clients about display cutouts and notches. Below screenshots shoes our video player #livi using that information to keep the video out of the cutout area:

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A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The on screen keyboard is unfolded. The user entered здр and the keyboard suggests some completions like здраве

In other on screen keyboard news: We added new presage completion dictionaries for Bulgarian, French, Serbian and Turkish:

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A screenshot from a tablet running Phosh. The on screen keyboard takes the whole width and uses a fixed physical size independent from the screen resolution.

A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The on screen keyboard is unfolded. Font and icons on the keyboard are upscaled according to the screen resolution.

The on screen keyboard can now keep it's size constant in landscape too which helps on tablets. We also now scale up the key's fonts and icons when upscaling. (This needs more works for the popovers, completions bars, and shortcuts to make all things look correct).

A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The polkit auth prompt is open showing the user name ("Doesnot Matter"), an icon with the users initials and the command to be run (here: "/bin/ls").

The #polkit prompt now shows more user data (by arun-mani-j) like the
users name and avator (or initials):

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The auto brightness added in 0.51 saw some improvements. We now remember a user set offset across reboots and also compensate for night light automatically (as contrast is reduced under red shift at low brightness for the human 👁️).

We also fixed several bugs in volume control selection related […]

One of the more visible changes in this release is likely that launching apps now show splash screens in the overview. You can also interact more easily with other apps now while an app is launching. There's also some style improvements that (hopefully) makes things look a bit more pleasant.

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phosh 0.53.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's plenty of 🐛 fixes, improvements and refinements of existing features this time.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.53.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 […]

devrtz :debian: (@devrtz@fosstodon.org) Attached: 1 image I felt like a silly :phosh: today with the #Fairphone5 🙃 Is the cpu-usage for real? ;) #LinuxMobile #Phosh #GNOME

Use #fullscreen for more screen estate!

https://fosstodon.org/@devrtz/116070520038337182

I want to thank all the contributors of @phosh for improving #softwarefreedom on mobile phones. Thank you so much for the steady progress during the last months!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

(Transparency note: I am one of the founding members of #Phosh e.V which aims to provide a daily usable, robust and easy to […]

Phosh.mobi @ FOSDEM 2026 As you may know from our announcement, Phosh.mobi members were present at FOSDEM 2026. We had a great time in Brussels and with things in the rear-view mirror, let’s share some of our experiences from the event. ## Devroom As is tradition by now, we helped organize and run the FOSS on Mobile devroom, which took place on Saturday. And we’re happy to say that it was a great success! So much so, that the devroom was always packed with a queue of people outside itching to get in. This year, we partnered up with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) folks for a full day devroom and we split the programme in roughly three parts: * Topics interesting to AOSP * Topics interesting to Mainline Linux * Topics interesting to both All recordings have been made available now, so if you missed the live-stream or didn’t make it into the room, you can now rewatch them. Here are a number of recommendations: * Collabora Office Can Finally Run on Mobile Linux * Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update * Phosh: What’s new and where are we going? * Running mainline Linux on the Unisoc-based Jolla C2 * The Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026) * UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source * postmarketOS: Reliability in 2026 Thanks to FOSDEM, our co-organizers and all the volunteers helping out to once more make this a memorable experience. ## Booth Apart from devroom, we were also invited to the Linux on Mobile booth where you could find us throughout the weekend. We shared the booth with Sailfish OS and AsteroidOS (thanks for having us!). Next to us you could find Furi Labs, postmarketOS, F-Droid and /e/OS and the Free Android World forming a formidable phone focussed community. Our booth was packed with people and it was a great pleasure to talk about Phosh and Mainline Linux with everyone who came by. People seemed genuinely impressed by the variety of phones that are able to run Mainline Linux these days. The most common question was for recommendation which phones work best _right now_ as well as which phones look promising in the future.

Some impressions from this years #FOSDEM : https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/blog/fosdem-2026/

#Phosh #LinuxMobile

A symbolic icon of a vibrating phone

#feedbackd (together with the device themes and rust bindings) moved to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/feedbackd/ . Many thanks to the fdo maintainers for having us!

#phosh #LinuxMobile