Sxmo - Simple X Mobile Released for the Pinephone (new minimalistic UI & image)

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"I'm a persistent bastard..." Who controlled their origin?

lol ... it took me a minute to get that one.

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Here's the output when I try to build lisgd. Whatever is going on, it's not working. Any ideas?

lisgd build options:
CDFLAGS    =
LDFLAGS    = -linput
CC              = cc
cc -c    lisgd.c
lisgd.c: In function 'die':
lisgd.c:40:2: warning: format not a format arguments [-Wformat-security]
   40 |   fprint(stderr, msg);
        |   ^~~~~~~
cc -g -o lisgd lisgd.o -linput
mkdir -p /bin
cp -f lisgd /bin
chmod 755 /bin/lisgd

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Edit: it turns out that lisgd IS building. If I kill lisgd after building it, and then run /bin/lisgd, it runs with the new commands. However, if I reboot, the changes are lost.

So here's the oddity, changes to sxmo-dwm are getting written to the sdcard. They're permanent.

But changes to lisgd appear to be written to RAM only. They don't persist.

Any ideas as to how to write the changes to the card?

Glad that you got sxmo-dwm building. Regarding lisgd - I think it's being installed to the wrong path - you need to do `make install PREFIX=/usr/`.
The original binary is installed to /usr/bin/lisgd so that would take precedence over /bin/lisgd.

Do note if you do a global package update `apk upgrade` and if anything changes in those packages then any changes you make would be overwritten.

Using the APKBUILDs rather than manual builds via:
https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-alpine/
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creati...ne_package

is likely the better way to do things - but whatever works for you

Let me know if there's anything you come up with that might be worth putting in the official builds. I wouldn't want to do single finger up/down swipe in lisgd because that would conflict with scrolling in surf / other browsers. But I am generally open to contributions / patches to make the things better out of the box.

Thanks for the instructions and the explanations. Everything is building properly now!

Here's my setup in case you're interested in any of it.

I didn't realize at first that the gestures worked from any starting position on the screen, provided there's enough room to meet the 300 (pixel?) minimum. I use GMD Gesture Control on Android, and it has starting zones, where you have to begin the gesture within -- for example -- 50px of the bottom screen edge.

So I did away with the one-finger-up and one-finger-down gestures. Here's what seemed to make sense to me:

one finger swipe left -- change desktop (as original)
one finger swipe right -- menu
two finger swipe down -- close app
three finger swipe up -- keyboard
three finger swipe down -- close keyboard

I didn't need any of dwm's app-switching features, because I like apps to take up the full screen, so I'm essentially using the desktops like webOS cards, one app per desktop. I just flip through them with left-to-right gestures.

Since I have access to the menu at any time via the right-to-left gesture, I changed the key bindings (much reduced) to reflect my likely needs.

Here's that section:

  /* PP */
    {1,  0,  XF86XK_AudioRaiseVolume, spawn, SHCMD("sxmo_vol.sh up") },
    {1,  0,  XF86XK_AudioLowerVolume, spawn, SHCMD("sxmo_vol.sh down") },
    {1,  0,  XF86XK_PowerOff, spawn, SHCMD("sxmo_screenlock") },

I didn't touch anything else, so the power key triggers the screenlock. Hold the volume up key to turn off the screen. Click the power key a few times to unlock. I'll probably simplify that more later, if I can.

Finally, I increased the font size on the top bar in the appearance section of the sxmo-dwm config.h file:
"monospaceize=20", /* PP default start index */
(that's not supposed to be a smiley!)

I'd like to increase the menu font size too, but that's a task for another day!

So far, this all works great. The power consumption is reasonable. With Crust (or the big battery case) this is going to be perfect! Thanks for all the work you put into it!