PinePhone focuses on supporting and bringing Linux experience to smartphones. It gives you full customization control of the system to tweak as per your needs.
This is why several projects have started to support and bring more functionality to PinePhone, such asPineLoaderand Jumpdrive.
Now, Sxmo has jumped on the bandwagon as well. Sxmo (Simple X Mobile) is a new Unix-inspired project that builds a minimal desktop environment for PinePhone. It aims to bring a full, lightweight tiling-based experience to Linux phones.
Simple X Mobile ‘SXMO’: Linux Desktop For PinePhone
The latestPinePhone Community Editionships with Ubuntu Touch that features aLomiridesktop environment. However, PinePhone also supports several desktops such as Plasma mobile, PureOS, and postmarketOS.
Simple X Mobile is a new desktop addition to PinePhone developed by Miles Alan. He recentlyreleaseda v0.1.0 that also includes several lightweight and small Suckless-based X programs.
To control and navigate between windows, Sxmo fully utilizes both volume and power buttons as well as screen swipe gestures. Currently, you may perform nine different actions through rapid successive button presses such as activating screen lock, launch terminal, and browser.
Meanwhile, you can also use swipe gestures to move between workspaces, different windows, and for other purposes. For instance, three fingers swipe up/down for increasing/decreasing volume, and four fingers swipe up/down for increasing/decreasing brightness.
Sxmo also emphasizes several other functions that use buttons and gestures. Here is the list of features that Simple X Mobile currently offers:
For more information on the implementation and internal libraries, you may visit the official sitehere.
How To Install Sxmo Desktop On PinePhone?
If you have a PinePhone device, download the Sxmo image fromhere. Then, extract the image, write it to your SD card and boot up the PinePhone.
If you find any difficulty, follow the installation guide fromhereand learn how to use it from the officialuser guide.
