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#phosh is a #LinuxMobile first user interface for your mobile phone. It is also a project working on making #Linux based #mobile phones usable and sustainable one […]

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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 […]

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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.
February 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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The mobile settings app got a new about panel showing the Phosh version and device information:

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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.
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
phosh.mobi
#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 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.
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
phosh.mobi
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 phone running Phosh. The on screen keyboard is unfolded. The user entered здр and the keyboard suggests some completions like здраве
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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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 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.
February 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
phosh.mobi
The #polkit prompt now shows more user data (by arun-mani-j) like the
users name and avator (or initials):

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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").
February 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
phosh.mobi
#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
A symbolic icon of a vibrating phone
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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We've just merged some code to automatically scale up the on screen keyboard in landscape on larger screens like tablets also allowing it to use more horizontal space.

While at that we also added the necessary bits to scale up font and icons on the […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]
A screenshot from a tablet running Phosh. The on screen keyboard takes the whole width and scales takes a fixed physical size independent from the screen resolution. A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The on screen keyboard is unfolded.
January 29, 2026 at 7:36 PM
phosh.mobi
You can also now disable the letterboxing of the video making it use the full height (at the expense of the left and right side). This can be useful on #mobile in landscape mode to make the whole video a bit larger while still preserving aspect ratio.

#linux
Letterboxed video. There's a black bar at the top and bottom to scale the video in a way it fully fits the window. Non letterboxed video using the full window height. Small bits are cut off at the left and right screen edge.
January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
phosh.mobi
One thing bothering us when playing videos with our little, mobile friendly video player #livi was that playing from video sites like #peeretube or #youtube showed very little information in #phosh's media player widget. This is now fixed on Livi's main […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]
Phosh's media widget with old livi showing only an URL and "unknown artist" Phosh's media with with current livi showing a thumbnail, artist and title. Currently playing Bestie Boy's Sabotage.
January 28, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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#gmobile can now handle different corner radii of displays and phoc already,
renders them correctly. We don't pick up that information in the shell yet though.

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A picture of gmobile's panel preview helper. The right top corner has a different corner radius than the top left one.
January 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
phosh.mobi
In the mobile settings app the conf-tweaks handling gained a sysfs backend completing the implementation of the #postmarketOS tweaks. This will allow to cut down on the number of settings apps in #postmarketos .

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A picture of a phone running Phosh. The mobile settings app is open and shows an authentication dialog for installing the sysfs settings.
January 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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New year, new release candidate!

We've tagged #phosh 0.52~rc1 together with #feedbackd 0.8.8, gmobile #0.6.0 and #pfs 0.0.6 . pfs now ships a simple example file selector app, excuse the logo but we were thinking about a _mobile_ file cabinet:

Happy […]

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The pfs logo. A file cabinet on wheels representing a mobile file cabinet.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Happy holidays everyone 🎄, Here's some update on how we'd like to inform client apps about display cutouts https://phosh.mobi/posts/xdg-cutouts/

#wayland #phosh #linuxmobile
A screenshot from the cutout test client. Areas with display cutouts, cameras and rounded corners are marked in blue.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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That was unexpected. Thanks a lot for your interest! (Original poll at https://berkeley.edu.pl/notice/B0x5vCs5tsaoEDBJpY but that doesn't render in the web version, hence a screenshot).
I screenshot from a mastodon poll looking at different Linux Mobile DEs on postmarketOS.
December 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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While you can configure the alarm clock sound in #phosh the default isn't great atm (it's the fallback from the freedesktop.org sound theme).

If your into 🎵 music / sound design and want to provide us with a good morning wake up sound 😴 please join us on […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]
A screenshot from a phone running phosh. The mobile settings app's feedback panel is open and the user has selected a custom alarm sound.
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A first glimpse of @CollaboraOffice running on #phosh

#linuxmobile
A screenshot from a device running Phosh and Collabora Office . The on screen keyboard is unfolded and the document contains the text "Hello World". The word Hello is selected.
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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@datenburg Join us today starting at 18:00 @ @datenburg (Bornheimer Str. 25, 53111 Bonn). We'll have stickers too :phosh: ​
Hexagon sticker with tiger Phoshi the tiger holding a sign that reads "Phosh".
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
phosh.mobi
The ⏰ sound can now be configured in the mobile settings app when a compatible clock app is running:

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A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The settings app is open showing the *Feedback* panel. The user configured a custom audio file for the alarm clock.
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The conf tweaks (aka @postmarketOS tweaks) part of mobile settings saw a bunch of fixes and the addition of the `gtk3settings` backend:

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A screenshot from a nested Phosh session. The settings app is open showing the Appearance conf tweaks panel.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The mobile settings app now displays an icon for each quick setting you can enable and configure making them easier to identify:

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A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The quick settings app is open showing the top bar panel. The individual quick settings the user can enable and configure have icons indicating their function.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
phosh.mobi
Speaking of brightness: The minimum value of the 🔦 slider can now be configured via `hwdb`/`udev` allowing one go to lower values then the former hardcoded 40%. The configuration is maintained in gmobile.

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A screenshot from a phone running Phosh. The torch quick settings is toggled and the brightness of the torch is set top 41%. It can be adjusted with a slider below the quick setting toggles.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
phosh.mobi
We closed the 1000th bug in #phosh today (and that's only counting the issues in the shell itself, not the other parts of the stack):

#linuxmobile
A screenshot from #phosh's gitlab page showing the number of open, closed and total bugs.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
phosh.mobi
Since most distributions ship stevia as default on-screen keyboard nowadays we decided to promote it to a core component. It gained several new features
in this release.

* Text auto complete automatically adds a space when inserting a word. We now remove […]

[Original post on social.phosh.mobi]
October 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
phosh.mobi
Phosh's compositor phoc gained workspace support. This is mostly useful in
docked setups with external mouse and a keyboard attached but we
intend to make use of it in the future for the mobile use case too.

We also switched to #wlroots 0.19.1.

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October 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM