Phosh

A pure Wayland shell for mobile devices like smart phones or small tablets which

use touch input
are running battery powered most of the time
have limited screen space
have a limited number of buttons
might be docked to a keyboard, screen and other input devices

Typical devices are the Librem 5 and PinePhone or devices formerly running proprietary operating systems like the OnePlus 6/6T.

The companion Wayland compositor is phoc.

License

phosh is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.

Getting the source

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh
cd phosh

The main branch has the current development version.

Dependencies

On a Debian based system run

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y build-dep .

For an explicit list of dependencies check the Build-Depends entry in the debian/control file.

Building

We use the meson (and thereby Ninja) build system for phosh. The quickest way to get going is to do the following:

meson setup _build
meson compile -C _build

Testing

To run the tests run

xvfb-run meson test --no-suite screenshots -C _build

For details see the .gitlab-ci.yml file.

Running

Running from the source tree

When running from the source tree start the compositor phoc. Then start phosh using:

_build/run

or (if you built phoc from source in ../phoc) in one command:

../phoc/_build/run -C ./data/phoc.ini -E _build/run

This will make sure the needed gsettings schema is found. Note that there's no need to install any files outside the source tree.

The result should look something like this:

Running from the Debian packages

If you're running a display manager like GDM or LightDM you can select the Phosh session from the display managers menu. For development purposes you can use the provided systemd unit:

systemctl start phosh

This runs phosh as the user with user id 1000 (which needs to exist). If you don't have that user and don't want to create one you can make systemd run phosh as any user by using an override file:

cat <<EOF > /etc/systemd/system/phosh.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
User=<your_user>
EOF

All of the above use the /usr/bin/phosh-session script to start compositor and shell under the hood so if you just want to start phosh from the system console once invoke that script directly.

Translations

This is handled via GNOMEs infra, see https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject and https://l10n.gnome.org/module/phosh/.

Getting in Touch

Issue tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/issues
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi

Development Documentation

Development documentation including public API docs and notes for application developers is at https://world.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Phosh/phosh.

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