Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver with Sway

Implementation of Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver using swayWM.

Components

• Custom-built postmarketOS
• swayWM for UI
• System packages:
  • postmarketos-ui-sway ...
  • bemenu ...
  • ...
• App packages:

TODO: Add components

Setup

TODO: Move some of this setup into a repository

lisgd

~/build/lisgd/lisgd.h/* Commands to execute upon recieving a swipe gesture */ Gesture gestures[] = {

       /* fingers      start   end     command */
       { 1,    Left,   Right,    "swaymsg workspace prev" },
       { 1,    Right,  Left,     "swaymsg workspace next" },

       { 2,    Left,   Right,    "xdotool key --clearmodifiers Alt+e" },
       { 2,    Right,  Left,     "xdotool key --clearmodifiers Alt+r" },

       { 2,    Down,   Up,       "swayphone_keyboard_show" },
       { 2,    Up,     Down,     "swayphone_keyboard_hide" },

       { 3,    Down,   Up,       "sxmo_vol.sh up" },
       { 3,    Up,     Down,     "sxmo_vol.sh down" },

       { 4,    Down,   Up,       "sxmo_brightness.sh up" },
       { 4,    Up,     Down,     "sxmo_brightness.sh down" },

}; TODO: Finish updating this

# TODO: cloning and building the app cp ~/build/lisgd/lisgd /usr/local/bin/lisgd

swayWM

1. Copy /etc/sway/config to ~/.config/sway/config
2. Edit:

~/.config/sway/config xargs swaymsg exec -- [...]

  # Kill focused window
   bindsym $mod+q kill

[...]

1. Default scaling for the touchscreen

output DSI-1 scale 2

1. Initial utility apps

exec squeekboard exec lisgd

Bluetooth

• Enable the service on boot: rc-update add bluetooth
• Enable the controller by default:

/etc/bluetooth/main.conf[Policy] AutoEnable=true

TODOs

• TODO: Touch gestures and controls
  • Custom input device? [1]
• TODO: Configure Firefox for touch: [2]
• TODO: Sound, alsa
• TODO: squeekboard virtual keyboard
• TODO: acpi for battery monitoring

Rejected solutions

under Wayland

• libinput-gestures
• twofing
• onboard virtual keyboard