@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:

(there has been flooding in my area).

I'm glad to hear that you're safe. Please give priority to your health and safety, and those of your family, over a software update!

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NOTE written on January 20 2026:
The post below was written in February 2025. Since then, a native version of Signal for Desktop has been made available by one of our app developers (thank you!)
It's working quite well and you can find it here.

ORIGINAL POST below:

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Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

I did. No one even replied to my post about a year ago

I saw your post and I did not understand it, it was clearly above my level of understanding.

I don't think anyone is patting each other on the back here. This is a project that's mostly run by volunteers and it's smaller than you may think. Our (barely a handful of) core devs are mostly busy getting VoLTE to run and fixing bugs in the new Noble release.

Most of the apps are made by volunteers who don't know enough about OS development to help with that, but still want to help. I'm grateful for their time.

I'm not sure what could be done better here. On a personal level, I enjoy the OS and it works for me.

In the end, we should all be using the OS that we like best. It's fine that you are choosing to use something else than UT. But why the whole song and dance?

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

at the same time, the OS doesn't even ship a decent resource monitor. htop isn't even available by default, and users have to ask why it's not included.

You know, I've never ever even realised there wasn't one. This shows you that we are very different users. I'm a rather average user with a small dash of power user. You sound the other way around.

And clearly you seem to know a lot. It makes me wonder whether or not there really isn't a way you could help. You seem generally motivated to make things better, there is an energy present in your frustration and maybe that energy could find a constructive outlet.

I'm wondering about something else. Who is the 'we' in "We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely"? You're making it sound as if we should care deeply, when the reality is that people stop and start using mobile OSses all the time. Just this week I helped two users switch to UT and they both like it.

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

@mango said in Increase text size or change colour:

I understand the reluctance of a major design change.

The reluctance is mostly caused by a simple question: who is going to do all that work? Because it's going to be a lot.

@richarddb Hallo Richard! Ik heb wel een paar antwoorden over mijn eigen gebruik:

• bankzaken: op de bank. Thuis, op de laptop.
• Signal: Signal in Waydroid als primaire client, en elke twee maanden even aan. Signal UT als secondaire client. Werkt goed.
• Delta Chat: Delta Touch. Werkt goed.
• Proton mail, Proton Pass: weet ik niet, gebruik ik niet.
• Mastodon gebruik ik niet maar ik zie wel Mastodon apps in de Open Store, die zou ik eerst eens proberen.

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

In order to get notifications you need to keep the application opened. Somehow you don't need to un-suspend the application in Ubuntu Tweaks, it seems the Xwayland apps are not suspended by the system. So note it might affect a bit battery life.

It does, but it's acceptable. Especially since notifications are quite important to me. It's so nice to see Signal notifs appear on my Pebble watch now!

@bhdouglass Thank you very much!

Sweet!

@oldbutndy said in Where does Ubuntu Touch come from? And why clarify it?:

I have never tried to give prompts to these type AI systems, so maybe someone here could do that, and post image results.

Personally I'd much rather someone create an image themselves, using their own brain and skils.

@ChromiumOS-Guy said in OnePlus just informed me they will NOT unlock bootloader for a device on bought on Ebay.:

i dont think a port will just happen somebody needs to activly work on it

That's true, but from what I heard, that is happening. Well, at least for the 8 and 8t. Haven't heard about the 8 Pro.

@gpatel-fr Sad! OnePlus usually had superb hardware for the price. Well, at least there is a decent lineup of OP phones that can still be ported.

@tigermoth Best to look it up in the documentation that your provider makes available. You can't try it out like that. If your provider only offers VoLTE for voice calls, then that's really the only option to make calls, and VoLTE does not work on the Pixel 3a.

@tigermoth Are you in an area where voice calls require VoLTE? If so, that is the problem.