Signal Desktop Flatpak for aarch64/arm64
This is a Flatpak of Signal Desktop for Linux aarch64/arm64 (along with a few other flatpaks). The offcial build is x86_64 only. This Flatpak is built with this script, using binaries from from this repo. I build them on my Raspberry Pi 4 and rsync the repo up to this webserver.
Repo is (hopefully) signed by GPG key: 02EDF57DA3FBD1CE me@adamthiede.com
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
Current Version is 5.43.0 (2022-05-19)
Tips:
- You'll need Flathub repo for the runtimes.
- Signal will be blurry on phosh (pinephone, Librem 5) becacuse of scaling. On an external monitor it looks normal.
- The conversations sidebar can be collapsed to just icons with a mouse, or with a very precise double-tap-drag. (This is hard to achieve; just use a mouse)
- 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.
Having trouble?
- open an issue on the repo linked above
- message me on matrix @elagost:matrix.org
Other software in this repo:
- A dice rolling program - flatpak install signal-arm com.elagost.Dice
Its permissions are probably too liberal. It's mostly up here for me.
- Axolotl deb rebuilt into a flatpak - flatpak install signal-arm org.nanuc.Axolotl
Because the official flathub flatpak is way out of date. (As of March 2022, it is not as out of date, but I will still build this when new releases come out.)
Maintained by Adam Thiede. Hosted at OpenBSD Amsterdam.