now, sxmo has a alternative window manager, wayland, built in. We can choose it in the settings menu. But my sxmo says: your device looks not ready yet. Am I wrong in supposing wayland support is built in with, say, latest edge download of postmarket sxmo?
For example, this one?
https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/edge...hone/sxmo/
Actually, I'd say even a older install might receive wayland support on update.

Anybody knows more about that? Do we need to additionally install wayland in sxmo?

Hi, I just installed some updates to Manjaro w/ Phosh on my pinephone a couple of days ago, and since then I haven't been able to speak or hear the caller when I answer a call, or make an outgoing one. I can't confidently attribute the change to the updates though, as I'm the target of ongoing cyber attacks.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

It would be helpful to know if this is a bug in the OS that came with the latest wave of updates or some other attack.

The only other thing I did in the same timeframe is attempt to install Pidgin on my phone for messaging, and a facebook messaging protocol library for it. I would have thought it extremely unlikely that those could impact such core functions of telephony. 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts, as always.

Hi,
Once an OS is installed on to the pine phone what is the actual process of getting an App/program loaded on it. For example if a write a program in python how do i get it to successfully run on the pine phone?

Cheers.

Hello is there something in progress to put gnome podcasts or other podcast client in the debian repository? I am not a big fan of platpak.
Also having dino-mobile in the debian repo like the manjaro phosh distro would be amazing.

I got my PinePhone a couple of weeks and struggled with the default Manjaro/Plasma combination for a while. It took three attempts to get the OS set up with the PinePhone freezing the first two times. I managed to get the OS updated. After it was set up the PinePhone would hang for short and longer periods, the UI would become unresponsive to swipes and taps and generally it felt like I was using an alpha product. I also experienced the dark screen after login issue which I was able to fix with information from the forum.

I am now running stock Mobian off an SD card and the difference is like light and day. Running from SD card Mobian is faster and much more usable. The UI is much more responsive. I would have assumed that the eMMC is faster than an SD card so was a bit surprised by this.

So, could it be that I have a problem with the OS image my PinePhone shipped with, or the eMMC or is my experience with Manjaro/Plasma about par for the (current) course?

I have to admit that the Manjaro repository having a build of SeaMonkey is almost enough to make me want to switch back even though "sudo apt-get" is ingrained in my finger memory

It would be great if Manjaro w/ Phosh could make it easy for a user to create a new phone contact immediately after someone calls you, using the caller's number without having to reenter it.

At the moment when someone calls, I reach for pen & paper and write down their number, then manually create a new contact then type in the details from my notes. This would be a small but important feature worth adding that would improve the user experience enormously for those of us using the pinephone as a "daily driver". 

Thanks in advance, and overall great job with the OS and the whole Pinephone project. I'll be making a video review soon, now that I consider it suitable for regular daily use. It's come a long way in the past year, so high fives all round! 

I just received this wallet case today. 

It fits the PinePhone better than I expected.

The clips hold to the edges and they don't cover the screen.

The whole phone easily slides up to reveal the camera to take photos.

Holds my ID and 3 cards.

Here is the link: (Make sure you are looking at the Dark Black variety ONLY. I don't know anything about those other models in this same listing. Red Brown looks the same, but that isn't what I purchased.)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P9LBYY3/

FYI: My PinePhone is Manjaro Convergence Edition if the design has changed at all since then (I have no idea.)

EDIT:
A few more things I noticed:
The speaker holes line up well enough to speak on calls with the case closed.
The clips hold the phone in the middle of the case allowing airflow which is a bonus.

The only con that I can tell so far is that metal credit cards will probably scratch the screen.

Hi, I've had to have multiple attempts to update my software on my Pinephone over the last 24 hours, because if I start the update and leave the phone unattended, it goes to sleep and the downloading freezes. I then have to cancel and restart the updating. Fortunately, it picks up where it left off, but it's still annoying. Could this be fixed in a future release please? Thanks in advance. 

For anyone wondering how to change the ringtone on Manjaro Phosh, after having tried everything and changing the source code of feedbackd I have finally figured out what makes it different and not work:

First follow https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11195 or https://sspaeth.de/2021/03/customizing-t...-ringtone/

Now add XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME to your /etc/environment file (this is the important thing)

Without that XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable it always ignores sound themes for some reason, see https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd...c#L124-130

I don't know why Manjaro Phosh doesn't ship with that environment variable (or at least my install that is kind of old and only updated through pacman doesn't) because there doesn't seem to be a standard for configuring the active sound theme, so it is put inside the org.gnome.desktop.sound gsetting here. I think this also means it's impossible to change the ringtone on non-GNOME environments like KDE unless you override the freedesktop sound files or modify feedbackd.

If you want to setup a proper inherited sound theme just for customizations (which is how helper tools are expected to modify it for you) you need to create a sound theme called __custom, which you can put in ~/.local/share/sounds/__custom/ (or $XDG_DATA_HOME instead of ~/.local/share if that exists)

And in that folder you put an index.theme with the following content:

[Sound Theme]
Name=Custom
Inherits=librem5
Directories=.

(replace librem5 with the theme the user actually wants to use)

Now you can put sound overrides directly in that folder (there must be no stereo/ folder, everything directly in the __custom folder according to the sound theme spec)

I'm not sure what exact format the audio files need to be, but iirc if you choose .oga (ogg) it should be stereo with 48000 Hz

For my conversion I used ffmpeg -i input.wav -filter:a "volume=0.5" -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 8 phone-incoming-call.oga

Now change theme by typing gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound theme-name __custom

and potentially clear sound cache using rm /home/mobian/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb.*

Reboot for good measure or at least kill feedbackd to be sure it catches the update. (although it should watch for changes on that gsetting)

Hope this helps

Last night I flashed a microSD with the plasma mobile beta 7 to see how things have progressed and it looked really good for about 20 minutes then the screen faded to white and after locking the screen it became unresponsive. Is this normal stability for plasma mobile? And if so, why is Pine64 having it as their default when Phosh is way more stable?