06-01-2020, 03:48 PM
Hi,
I got inspired by the cool sxmo project and decided to try something similar with my favorite tiling compositor: Sway. I've put together a proof of concept (POC) solution which consists of several config files and shell scripts. You can find it here: https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc
There are various menus and shortcuts to help you avoid using the on-screen keyboard all the time. E.g. touching the backlight indicator spawns a custom dialog where you can change the settings. You can also use touch gestures to do some common tasks like move terminals around etc. Pressing the power button puts the phone into "sleep" mode to avoid draining the battery that much (replacing the default shutdown action).
Be aware that this is just a bunch of configs that you can apply to your existing postmarketOS installation. Not a full image. Plus it likely has some gaps. But I think it could be helpful for someone anyway. It's surprising how much you can achieve with just the sway config file!
But that's not all! Even if you don't care about sway you might want to check out pinephone-toolkit which is a collection of UI-agnostic tools for controlling the LED, backlight, vibrations and putting the secondary CPUs into sleep. These should work with any distribution, so it is a nice building block.
I got inspired by the cool sxmo project and decided to try something similar with my favorite tiling compositor: Sway. I've put together a proof of concept (POC) solution which consists of several config files and shell scripts. You can find it here: https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc
There are various menus and shortcuts to help you avoid using the on-screen keyboard all the time. E.g. touching the backlight indicator spawns a custom dialog where you can change the settings. You can also use touch gestures to do some common tasks like move terminals around etc. Pressing the power button puts the phone into "sleep" mode to avoid draining the battery that much (replacing the default shutdown action).
Be aware that this is just a bunch of configs that you can apply to your existing postmarketOS installation. Not a full image. Plus it likely has some gaps. But I think it could be helpful for someone anyway. It's surprising how much you can achieve with just the sway config file!
But that's not all! Even if you don't care about sway you might want to check out pinephone-toolkit which is a collection of UI-agnostic tools for controlling the LED, backlight, vibrations and putting the secondary CPUs into sleep. These should work with any distribution, so it is a nice building block.