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phog: Package and use phog on phosh systems

    • Open Imported Issue created by Administrator @root

    Describe your issue

    What's the expected behaviour?

    Mobian's phog is a phosh compatible greeter that has had a few releases. It would be nice to package and support phog on phosh systems.

    Bringing a graphical login manager to mobile devices allows our users to have multiple user accounts instead of the single (and so-far hardcoded) mobian user. They can also use phog to select which graphical environment they want to start, so they could very well setup one user for work running Phosh, and another user for their everyday life running SXMO, for example. Finally, phog ensures the GNOME keyring is unlocked when the session is started so we can get rid of the annoying “keyring password” dialogs on session startup :) --- https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/01/08/2022-review/

    What's the current behaviour?

    We currently don't package or support phog

    How to reproduce your issue?

    Package phog and set it up to run with greetd. phog provides install instructions for systemd systems, so we just need to port those

    On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

    • edge (master branch)

    • v22.06 (supported until 2023-01-18)

    • v22.12

    • I confirm that the issue still is present after running sudo apk upgrade -a

    On what environment did you encounter the issue?

    Environments

    • Phosh
    • Plasma Mobile
    • Sxmo (Wayland/Sway) Please post the output of sxmo_version.sh
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    How did you get postmarketOS image?

    What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

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    • Administrator
      Administrator @root · Imported
      Author Owner

      This is an interesting idea. I'm not sure what I think of the UX implications of this — picking a user at startup doesn't really make much sense on a phone in my opinion given that phones usually are personal, and even if they aren't you are likely to just keep it on when handing the device to someone else. However, for portable computers and tablet I think it makes sense.

      With that said, I'm not opposed to this. The dependency list looks similar to what we'd already install on a Phosh image anyway, so the size problems mentioned in #823 (closed) shouldn't be applicable I think. This would also come with the benefit that we could sneak in some more postmarketOS branding. Plus, it would make it easier for people to try out different user interfaces.

      @ollieparanoid, you originally pushed to introduce tinydm. What do you think of this?

      By Newbyte on 2023-01-18T13:41:35

    • Administrator added category::ui type::feature ui-phosh labels · Imported

      added category::ui type::feature ui-phosh labels

    • Administrator
      Administrator @root · Imported
      Author Owner

      phog looks like a nice project! I think it would make sense to get it into alpine and make it possible to use it with postmarketOS, if somebody wants to look into it. Given that it's based on greetd, it's probably not closely tied to systemd (even though systemd is listed as builddep).

      I'm not sure what I think of the UX implications of this — picking a user at startup doesn't really make much sense on a phone in my opinion given that phones usually are personal, and even if they aren't you are likely to just keep it on when handing the device to someone else. However, for portable computers and tablet I think it makes sense.

      Agreed, so I wouldn't make this the default.

      What we have right now is this wiki article about configuring pmOS for multiple UIs/users: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Configure_postmarketOS_for_multiple_UIs_or_users

      Once phog is in alpine, I'd recommend updating that wiki article to explain how to use it.

      (Side note: adding a short script that one would install with apk, then run it and then somewhat automatically sets up a second UI would be nice.)

      We could also make use of _pmb_select (pmbootstrap!2132 (merged)) to allow the user to select phog instead of tinydm when building a custom image with pmbootstrap, after choosing phosh in pmbootstrap init.

      By Oliver Smith on 2023-01-19T07:06:47

    • Administrator added help wanted status::confirmed labels · Imported

      added help wanted status::confirmed labels

    • Administrator marked #2928 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue · Imported

      marked #2928 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

      By Newbyte on 2024-06-27T11:07:02

    • Administrator marked this issue as related to #2928 (closed) · Imported

      marked this issue as related to #2928 (closed)

      By Newbyte on 2024-06-27T11:07:02

    • Administrator mentioned in issue #2967 · Imported

      mentioned in issue #2967

      By Alistair Francis on 2024-07-05T01:09:07

    • achill (fossdd) mentioned in merge request !6106

      mentioned in merge request !6106

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