Pmbootstrap: postmarketos-ui-gnome

[ollieparanoid]

AA-ron from IRC wanted to try out Gnome with postmarketOS

Recommendation:

• [ ] Submit PRs upstream to get all Gnome-related packages for aarch64/armhf (they are missing currently!), talk to @kaniini for that.
• [ ] Create a postmarketos-ui-gnome package, that configures Gnome with Wayland (similar to postmarketos-ui-weston).

[MartijnBraam]

I guess getting gnome-shell on armhf will be quite difficult since their javascript engine doesn't compile on non-x86 platforms (which I found about why its not in alpine)

[ollieparanoid]

From reading the backlog, it looks like @opendata26 got it working somehow \o/
https://github.com/opendata26/pmbootstrap/tree/gnome

[kaniini]

but does it actually run on real hardware ?

[MartijnBraam]

It does, here's a photo of it running on the sony castor, made by @opendata26:

[opendata26]

To get it to compile I patched a random 6 that appears after running configure in mozjs there is definetly a better solution to this so I'm not making a PR yet it is also fully useable

[opendata26]

Tree is on my GH gnome branch

[drebrez]

@opendata26 are you still working on it? I'm also curious to run it on my devices to see how it works

[opendata26]

Not currently

[ollieparanoid]

@drebrez: sounds like you'd only need to rebase @opendata26's gnome branch and then it should work. Bonus points for removing the hack he mentioned and then making it available upstream 😉

[ollieparanoid]

@NotKit asked in the chat:

what was the problem with GNOME 3 on aarch64?

• Here's @opendata26's branch
• relevant commit

I think the problem was related to the JavaScript engine - you could diff his APKBUILDs against the official ones in Alpine to see what he has changed.

[Nine-H]

is mutter/libmutter working/packaged?

[ollieparanoid]

@Nine-H: Yes:
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=mutter&branch=edge