Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver with Sway

Implementation of Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver using swayWM.

(!) Currently discontinued. Using swayWM (Wayland) proved too hard for now due to problematic on-screen keyboard and gestures detection.

TODO: Try this again after some time...

Components

• Custom-built postmarketOS
• swayWM for UI
• System packages:
  • networkmanager
  • termite, termite-terminfo
  • bluez
  • squeekboard, gsettings-desktop-schemas
  • TODO: alsa-utils (to unmute speaker via alsamixer and then save as default via alsactl store)
  • TODO: gestures
• App packages:
  • vim
  • firefox

Setup

⚠ Warning: serial console is required to properly setup the device with swayWM since there is no touch controls by default.

TODO: Move some of this setup into a repository

swayWM

1. Copy /etc/sway/config to ~/.config/sway/config
2. Edit:
   • $term termite

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