User:Kyotonixx
| This user's main device is a OnePlus 6T (oneplus-fajita). |
HAIYAAA IM KYOOO !!!!! I LOVE LINUX AND FOSS !!
i fell down the rabbit hole of linux phones not too long ago, and now I’m hooked.
Webapps
so originally, i thought to use chromium for webapps because firefox just doesn't have that functionality, and the script on the postmarketos firefox page is outdated and non-functioning. but chromium doesn't function very well in my experience.
so i wrote an updated version of that script.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Installation check
if command -v firefox &> /dev/null
then
firefoxinst=firefox
elif command -v firefox-esr &> /dev/null
then
firefoxinst=firefox-esr
else
echo "No Firefox installation found."
exit 1
fi
# Create firefox profile
set -e
name=$1
url=$2
# Ugly, copy-pasted from SO
simple_name=$(echo "$name" | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed 's/ //g')
echo "Creating webapp $name, using $url."
# ugly, i hate shell scripts can you tell....
$firefoxinst --headless -CreateProfile $simple_name
$firefoxinst --headless -P $simple_name &
echo "Initializing profile."
sleep 3
pkill $firefoxinst
profile_dir=$(find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -maxdepth 1 | grep $simple_name)
mkdir -p "$profile_dir/chrome"
echo -e "\e[1;31mNOTICE: If you get an ambiguous redirect error, it is due to having multiple Firefox profiles with the same name. Otherwise, continue.\e[0m"
cat << EOF >> $profile_dir/chrome/userChrome.css
#nav-bar {
visibility: collapse;
}
#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse;
}
#statuspanel {
visibility: collapse;
}
EOF
# Create desktop entry
cat >~/.local/share/applications/$simple_name.desktop <<EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=$firefoxinst -P $simple_name $url
Icon=/home/user/.local/share/applications/$simple_name.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=$name
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=firefox
EOL
# Get high quality icon from googles api
wget https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fs2%2Ffavicons%3Fdomain%3D$url%26sz%3D128 -O /tmp/$simple_name.png
mv /tmp/$simple_name.png ~/.local/share/applications
save as add-webapp.sh
usage: ./add-webapp.sh "Hacker News" "https://news.ycombinator.com"
to reload the page, or go back/forward, just press and hold your finger down on any blank space, and a firefox menu thingy should pop up.
for the most part, i thought utilizing userChrome.css was a pretty clever idea, and i still think so :p
and also, you don't have to put up with shitty quality icons, which is something that definitely irked me off about the favicon.ico files.
hopefully, anyone who was in the same situation as me finds this, as that's the only reason i've shared this here.
MPRIS passthrough for Waydroid
to open, props to this guy. to be honest, what he did was pretty simple, so i don't know how i didn't think of it. but then again, i didn't know kde connect even had this functionality. https://hanstan.link/how-to-configure-loseless-apple-music-in-linux/
unfortunately, at this moment, waydroid does not support mpris passthrough. But you can set up kde connect both in the container and on your host, and then configure permissions inside the container’s kde connect. what should follow is working media controls.
and what i usually do is hide the desktop entry for kde connect with "NoDisplay=true" on my host so everything feels more seamless.
also, fuck you jolla, make aliendalvik open-source or gtfo.
Owns devices
| Device | Notes |
|---|---|
| OnePlus 6 (oneplus-enchilada) | lineage daily driver, calls not working on pmos :< |
| PINE64 PinePhone (pine64-pinephone) | pmos community edition!!!! little tinkering toy, running pmos phosh |