Signal aarch64 Flatpak

Signal Desktop Flatpak for aarch64/arm64 (source)

I no longer use Signal. Updates are untested and shipped automatically by CI.

To install system wide:

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists signal-arm https://elagost.com/flatpak/signal.flatpakrepo

sudo flatpak install signal-arm org.signal.Signal

To install for your user:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists signal-arm https://elagost.com/flatpak/signal.flatpakrepo

flatpak install --user signal-arm org.signal.Signal

You'll need Flathub repo for the runtimes.

This repo is signed by gitlab-runner@leb gpg key, FBEF43DC8C6BE9A7

Tips & Tricks

Signal will be blurry on phosh (pinephone, Librem 5) becacuse of Xwayland scaling. To fix, run with wayland using these arguments: --use-gl=egl --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland. Signal must be opened at least once in X11/Xwayland first (just by clicking the launcher) first.
To add the above to the launcher shortcut: copy /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/current/active/files/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and change the Exec line to this: Exec=flatpak run org.signal.Signal --use-gl=egl --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
Use the View menu item to zoom out a few times. It makes Signal much less cramped.
Ctrl+Shift+c will close the current conversation and reduce idle CPU usage significantly.
Notification sounds and mic/camera usage can be enabled in settings.

Contact me if you want to take over maintaining this! Or for bug reports etc.

open an issue on the repo
open an issue on the upstream repo
contact me on matrix
email mail@ this domain

Other Signal arm64 builds:

Alpine APKBUILD (maybe someone could combine efforts with the APKBUILD in Alpine's repos?)
AUR for Arch
COPR for Fedora

Maintained by Adam Thiede. Hosted at OpenBSD Amsterdam. This costs money to host; if you would like to contribute money, donate to OpenBSD, FSF, or postmarketOS.