Signal aarch64 Flatpak

Signal Desktop Flatpak for aarch64/arm64

Because of Stories and other failures I no longer use Signal. See below for the maintenance policy.

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.

Tips & Tricks (click to expand)

Signal will be blurry on phosh (pinephone, Librem 5) becacuse of X11. 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 (bug reports etc)

submit a ticket

open an issue on the upstream repo

IRC: #mobilesignal room on libera.chat

email mail@ this domain

Maintenance policy: I personally don't use Signal anymore. I continue to ship updates but they're not fully tested - I confirm the program opens, at least. If you'd like to take over maintainership it's pretty easy and I'll hand over keys. I am also making effort to get patches upstreamed and will ask Signal to provide an amd64 .deb so Flathub can do the builds, but don't hold your breath.

Other repos on this server:

Testing repo: created automatically by builds.sr.ht. It will break and is mostly just for me. Upon successful testing it is promoted to the main repo.

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

My build of axolotl:

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists axolotl https://elagost.com/flatpak/repo_axolotl.flatpakrepo && sudo flatpak install axolotl org.nanuc.Axolotl

My dice program:

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists dice https://elagost.com/flatpak/repo_dice.flatpakrepo && sudo flatpak install dice com.elagost.Dice

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.