# phosh

**Repository Path**: mirrors_chromium_gitlab_gnome/phosh

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: phosh
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-12

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# Phosh

A pure Wayland shell for mobile devices like smart phones or small
tablets which

* use touch input
* are running battery powered most of the time
* have limited screen space
* have a limited number of buttons
* might be docked to a keyboard, screen and other input devices

Typical devices are the Librem 5 and PinePhone or devices formerly
running proprietary operating systems like the OnePlus 6/6T.

The companion Wayland compositor is [phoc][].

## License

phosh is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.

## Getting the source

```sh
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh
cd phosh
```

The [main][] branch has the current development version.

## Dependencies

On a Debian based system run

```sh
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y build-dep .
```

For an explicit list of dependencies check the `Build-Depends` entry in the
[debian/control][] file.

## Building

We use the meson (and thereby Ninja) build system for phosh.  The quickest
way to get going is to do the following:

```sh
meson setup _build
meson compile -C _build
```

## Testing

To run the tests run

```sh
xvfb-run meson test --no-suite screenshots -C _build
```

For details see the [.gitlab-ci.yml][] file.

## Running

### Running from the source tree

When running from the source tree start the compositor *[phoc][]*.
Then start *phosh* using:

```sh
_build/run
```

or (if you built *phoc* from source in *../phoc*) in one command:

```sh
../phoc/_build/run -C ./data/phoc.ini -E _build/run
```

This will make sure the needed gsettings schema is found. Note that there's no
need to install any files outside the source tree.

The result should look something like this:

![phosh](screenshots/phosh-overview.png)

### Running from the Debian packages

If you're running a display manager like GDM or LightDM you can select the
`Phosh` session from the display managers menu. For development purposes
you can use the provided systemd unit:

```sh
systemctl start phosh
```

This runs *phosh* as the user with user id 1000 (which needs to exist). If you
don't have that user and don't want to create one you can make systemd
run *phosh* as any user by using an override file:

```sh
cat <<EOF > /etc/systemd/system/phosh.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
User=<your_user>
EOF
```

All of the above use the `/usr/bin/phosh-session` script to start compositor
and shell under the hood so if you just want to start phosh from the system
console once invoke that script directly.

## Translations

This is handled via GNOMEs infra, see
<https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject> and
<https://l10n.gnome.org/module/phosh/>.

## Getting in Touch

* Issue tracker: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/issues>
* Matrix: <https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi>

## Development Documentation

Development documentation including public API docs and notes for application
developers is at <https://world.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Phosh/phosh>.

[main]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/tree/main
[.gitlab-ci.yml]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml
[debian/control]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/blob/main/debian/control
[phoc]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc