#catacomb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #catacomb, aggregated by home.social.
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Charon 1.9.0 adds support for navigation TTS (using third-party apps) and improves distance calculation of the active navigation segments:
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I am so done with Flathub.
First you have to spend hours rebuilding the entire world just to package the simplest thing, then you have to fight with Flathub admins about the application not feeling native enough on Gnome, which apparently is the only desktop environment that exists.
It is such an incredible waste of developer time just because you can't find any maintainers that know how to properly package an application…
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2026/
#Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #PlasmaMobile #postmarketOS #UnifiedPush #PinePhonePro #Catacomb #Mobian #DanctNIX -
Catacomb 1.6.0 brings a small improvement for the Fairphone 5, working around the frequent wakeups from suspend by quickly resuspending after wakeup without inputs, and keeping the screen off on wakeup without power button press.
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Since squeekboard is no longer maintained, I decided to take some time to add focus-based visibility to wvkbd:
https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-devel/patches/70516
Surprised to see it wasn't implemented before, considering how simple it is. If this is not desired upstream, maybe it's time to write my own…
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Pinax 1.3.0 adds a context menu for copy/pasting and a new Sketch mode:
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Kumo 1.8.2 brings several QoL changes for #Servo and fixes clipboard issues on Sway and Phosh.
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/kumo/commit/6c4d15b4e525bf1c9699e5491a78c0067149f53c
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Fresco of a menorah from the #Jewish #catacomb of Vigna Randanini in #Rome. Discovered in 1859, off the Via Appia, the catacomb attests to the presence of a thriving Jewish community. The site developed over the second through fourth centuries CE. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/2shRfnh #photography #archaeology
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Decided to add Kumo to the list of projects built with #Servo :
Lots of cool projects there. Once my touch support fixes are upstreamed, it might be a nice project to try and get some broken websites working in it.
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Curious if anyone has used #catacomb or #linuxmobile in general and has some suggestions for interesting new features/applications.
I've got a couple ideas, but none of them really spark joy. Best idea so far is turning my stuff into a proper #arch distro, but I'm not that fond of maintaining all of that by myself.
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Charon 1.8.0 changes the default tile size from 256 to 512:
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/charon/refs/v1.8.0
While this is mostly a lateral move, it simplifies the offline tile archive generation. Instead of 8+ hours of requesting tiles from a server, I can now render 75k+ tiles locally in under 10 minutes. This should make it easier to fulfill offline tile addition requests.
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Apparently the Fairphone 5 microphone not working with automatic wireguard call profile switching was just a race condition with q6voiced:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/q6voiced/-/work_items/3
This means I now have calls working at a usable level with great quality on the Fairphone 5.
Since ArchLinux users must love the bleeding edge, I'm shipping this as default with my packages, so it should work out of the box going forward:
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/catacomb_packages/commit/3150b440e4050516b180a17ce2b8244198e5c301
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Epitaph 1.3.0 improves FP5 GPS support and ignores single-tap drawer expansion during calls:
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Kumo 1.8.1 fixes a couple bugs that probably went unnoticed by everyone but me. Baby steps.
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/kumo/log/v1.8.1
Maybe it's time to get calls working on my Fairphone 5…
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Charon 1.7.0 brings idle inhibition while the GPS is locked and fixes issues with startup on some compositors:
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/charon/refs/v1.7.0
First time doing a release through SourceHut, seems like I should put the changelog in the tag's message.
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (18/2026): Shift to Convergence
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-18-2026/
#LinuxMobile #UbuntuTouch #Jolla #SailfishOS #FuriLabs #Catacomb #postmarketOS #Mobian #Shiftphones #Shift6mq #Librem5 #libcamera #PinePhone -
After about 3 hours, I'm finally done migrating all Catacomb projects over from GitHub to SourceHut:
https://sr.ht/~undeadleech/catacomb
I was surprised to realize that GitHub did not automatically subscribe me to many of my own projects, finding some open issues in the process.
Didn't think it was going to take this long, but there's been a lot of projects piling up. If someone finds some old GitHub links, please let me know.
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Kumo 1.8.0 automatically unloads inactive tabs, to preserve resources and enhance initial loading speed.
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ArchLinux 7.0.0, now available at a Fairphone 5 near you.
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Aevum 2.3.1 uses the RTC offset to schedule alarms on systems with read-only RTCs. This finally fixes the last remaining reason I had to use the PinePhone Pro over the Fairphone 5.
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Took me a bit of time (and ~$15 worth of Flathub CI costs) to figure out, but a Flatpak of Kumo with Servo support is now available:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.catacombing.kumo
Don't use Flatpak myself, but I'm kinda curious if Servo works with the Flatpak.
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Just released version 1.7.0 of Kumo:
https://github.com/catacombing/kumo/releases/tag/v1.7.0
The most significant change is the introduction of Servo as an optional rendering engine besides WebKit.
Originally wanted to give this some more time to cook, but my hand was forced after updating my WebKit fork to the latest version of WebKit.
Easiest way to try is Flatpak, it should be available there in a couple hours.
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Over a year ago I tried adding Servo support to my browser and failed. A month ago I tried again, but some crucial things were still missing upstream.
After spending the weekend adding touch context menu support to Servo, I finally managed to get it in a spot where I'm willing to let other people try.
It's not quite ready for release yet, but if testing reveals no issues, I'll hopefully be able to publish a new version in the coming weeks.
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"I'm just saying," the rogue muttered, "it's odd this client wants to meet in a #catacomb."
The barbarian snorted. "Worried he's a lich?"
"No! Well, now you mention it—"
"Last week, you dragged me through a sewer. And that worked out fine."
"I guess." The rogue looked down sadly at his replacement boots.
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (12/2026): Immutable Ambitions
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-12-2026/
#Phosh #Catacomb #Amazfish #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #PlasmaMobile #postmarketOS #Duranium #GNOME #LinuxMobile #PureOS #Librem5 #PinePhonePro #FuriLabsFLX1 -
For Charon 1.6.0 I decided to steal a great feature from Organic Maps: You can now zoom in and out easier by double-tapping and moving the finger up and down.
A full list of changes can be found in the release notes:
https://github.com/catacombing/charon/releases/tag/v1.6.0 -
Did you know that Catacomb's window manager has built-in curling?
Just tile a window, switch to the overview, then try and land it in the target zone using touch velocity!
