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Hi All,

I recently got a few Meshtastic devices, but was sad to see there is no Linux based GUI for it (though an excellt Python CLI library/App). So I rolled up my sleeves and make a basic GUI in GTK4/Libadwaita! I think it turned out pretty well.

If you test it out and find bugs, please let me know!

I've been experimenting with @agx 's phosh-osk-keyboard , and hacked together a script to automatically change the shortcuts based on the window titles.

It's time for your newest FOSSphones news roundup! As usual, the same page will also be posted on our gemini capsule.

https://fossphones.com/10-15-2024.html

gemini://fossphones.com/10-15-24.gmi

Important Information for FrOSCon 2025:

Next years FrOSCon will take place on the 16th and 17th of August.

Mark the date and stay tuned.

We're looking forward seeing you there.

@linmob Didn't know has a variant now too (called "Nethunter pro"). NIce!

New blog post: Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2024): Successful moves and XMPP calling linmob.net/weekly-update-41-20

@me a nice feature of SMS is that you can put the metadata into the SMS so one can e.g. just fetch that one single message in matrix (once chatty supports this, l already added support to libcmatrix)

@me Nice write up.

To wake up the phone one can also do `ntfy <topic> send-sms.sh` and then mark the number that sends the SMS as silent in .

The SMS can be sent from the UP server via an old phone or via services like text-belt.

(that's what I'm using atm to get my devices to sleep longer).

@awai I could be a hint that not even Google thinks that Android is still Linux 😃 (and/or they don't have much confidence in vendor kernels)

Ich habe mal wieder ein paar Vortragsfolien für das Web konvertiert. Der Vortrag war am 1. Oktober bei der Deutschen Rentenversicherung und geht um Cloud Computing. Viel Spaß! blog.fefe.de/?ts=99f76772

@badrihippo @agx
I usually get 'hey' for hey swipes, but sometimes hwy/hgwy. Enable multiple suggestions, and maybe cull some words from your list.

gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk.Completers.Pipe command 'sh -c "swipeGuess /path/to/words-qwerty-en_gb 5 | tr \"\t\" \"\n\""'

@badrihippo No need to restart the shell, just restart (kill) the keyboard (otherwise development would be way too cumbersome).

@badrihippo Nice. Note that plugging in swipeGuess is the simplest approach. git.sr.ht/~earboxer/SwipeBehav has more elaborate setup. Nice thing is that p-o-s doesn't need to be changed, just the pipe configuration needs to be adjusted.

@badrihippo

Thanks for reporting back! Yeah, I think it makes more sense to keep the selection. It will get more introspectable by users once someone picks up gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh- . We could then also think about handling images as well and show something sensible in the list of selectable entries to paste.

@Blort

Seems some of phosh's features could use some marketing 😃 . Anyway: I've just added how to use swipeGuess in the manpage: gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-

@razze a bit more than a year ago: social.librem.one/@agx/1102605 (hope it didn't get broken in the meantime by other changes 😃 ). Should we add that to the mobile settings options too? I was hesitant as I have no idea how much it is tested by people.

The OSK panel in mobile settings is becoming more complete. After adding layout selection last cycle, selecting the default text completer is on its way now too. The data is provided by the OSK so new completers are picked up automatically.

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