# Arch barebone image brought to become a desktop Plasma-Pinephone, ...update **URL:** \ **Category:** RebornOS Community\ **Created:** [September 7, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512 "2021-09-07T19:55:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/1 "2021-09-07T19:55:24Z")
I have set up a Pinephone starting from a barebone Arch-Linux image, and set up a plasma phone, since I did not like the Manjaro version of it : - ) Still, it has to be perfected, but it is a good start. There is a yt demo video linked to the picture, **it is my first self** **produced yt upload so bare with me.** [![20210907_135211](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/rebornos/original/1X/59f1d195b7119b44e8159f980facc6de95b6f58c.jpeg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0A34vfYHA0&t=312s) ---
**Author:** ![CookieSource](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/cookiesource/32/16_2.png) [@CookieSource](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/CookieSource)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/2 "2021-09-08T04:01:02Z")
Yeah it’s still pretty early days, but they making quite some progress 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/3 "2021-09-08T06:00:38Z")
yes, but this is a standard plasma desktop which I installed on top of barebone arch tty2, over ssh completed with plasma DE, modem manager, call app… and adjusted for touchscreen handling, cause I was not happy with Manjaros take on the plasma phone… ---
**Author:** ![CookieSource](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/cookiesource/32/16_2.png) [@CookieSource](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/CookieSource)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/4 "2021-09-08T08:17:26Z")
I have tried their image on my pine-phone its alright I guess ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 9:57am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/5 "2021-09-08T09:57:28Z")
okay 🙂 not with me, had to unlock myself every minute, I tried even suspend energy saving, set button handling, timeout set … to avoid, did not work. You can not use a device when you most of the time use to unlock it. Phosh wasn’t better 🙂 Then I like to group my apps, there were all in a single block. And I like to have more than one desktop plus **be able to personalize.** …and so on So I find it to be in handling, **nearly as bad as an iphone** and **clearly worse than android** ---- So **I was expecting from KDE plasma something different.** With my construction I have now all those features 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/6 "2021-09-08T17:30:31Z")
Good job @ycom1 🙂👏. Must have been difficult to set up. ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/7 "2021-09-08T19:01:06Z")
THANKS : - ) , so step by step, first ssh over USB, then ssh over wifi, setup desktop with qtvirtualkeyboard that sddm loads it for the first login. That meaned I had to create a sddm config with nano. Thenhad to configure sddm for wayland / and plasma startup. Create onboard keyboard support. Sadly wayland did no advantage as to right-click emulation. So I stuck with plasma session. Then figured it out that plasma desktop mode was better compared to folder view for the touchpad functionality. Only the legacy launcher worked well enough for touchpad input. Set up the panel, that I have all functionality under one hood. Then installed all those apps like discover, modem, dolphin, call, nextcloud … Still not finished with bluetooth, GPS, some map app, also want to mount the internal emmc as swap partition… that is the current stage. **P.S.: I installed AUR right click emulation but it had no effect, do you have** **any idea to that ?** ---
**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/8 "2021-09-08T20:18:31Z")
Thanks for the text. I don’t have a Pinephone to test though 😅 . I use onboard too. I stick with X11 because it won’t work on Wayland. Were you trying this?: [GitHub - PeterCxy/evdev-right-click-emulation: Implement Long-Press-to-Right-Click on Touchscreen Linux Devices with Xorg or Wayland](https://github.com/PeterCxy/evdev-right-click-emulation) If it doesn’t work, perhaps you will need to create an `issue` through their github page. I’m interested in knowing if all the phone sensors work correctly ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/9 "2021-09-08T21:54:44Z")
yeah thanks, that is the package, it kinda seems working now, : - ) will keep you posted, as I am all finished , would post a polished demo with explanation audio,… ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/10 "2021-10-02T19:47:06Z")
a short update to this Pinephone project, if somebody eventually finds interest ; - ) I had a password issue so that I was locked out of my phone, so there came an idea to build like a rescue system into the phone for emergencies. For that I grabbed that jumpdrive ISO from danctnix page, and flashed the internal emmc of the phone with a further barebone arch ISO, this also from the danctnix project. _Starting from that rescue drive, then inserted the corrupted installation of my plasma phone, chrooted to the root of the corrupted sd installation over ssh, and the phone “lives” again._ I thought, that this might be an interesting story to tell. ( a pinephone with a rescue system build in 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![jppelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/jppelt/32/338_2.png) [@jppelt](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/jppelt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/11 "2021-10-03T05:07:15Z")
Personally, I really enjoy SXMO on the pine. Super smooth. that being said, appreciate the effort that went into your setup. ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/12 "2021-10-06T19:45:56Z")
seems interesting, and sure is lightweight, I give it a try someday : - ) The good thing about pinephone is, that as long you have some spare high-end SD cards, you can try out whatever you want; ---
**Author:** ![jppelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/jppelt/32/338_2.png) [@jppelt](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/jppelt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/13 "2021-10-06T22:31:11Z")
With [Jump Drive](https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases) you do not even need SD cards…you can write directly on the eMMC . Regardless, it is a lot of fun! Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![ycom1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/ycom1/32/1066_2.png) [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/14 "2021-10-07T05:41:20Z")
```auto # setting up a classic plasma pinephone using the arch barebone image: download: Pinephone barebone ARCH image to be transferred to the SD-card with e.g. Etcher ev. in your repo or as AppImage. Connect to USB SSH with the user “alarm” and password “123456”. ( The root password is BW “root” ) ssh alarm@10.15.19.82 # then go and change the default passwords still being in SSH # but give quick and simple password like a random number e.g “0909” # because there is a lot of typing password ahead also this time # you can take the same numbers for root as well... sudo passwd root sudo passwd alarm # activate a network connection, in order to have internet connection **sudo nmtui** # you can then ping google.com to confirm internet connection # you can now also switch over to SSH over network: *ssh @* *with the password you created before* # then go for update system sudo pacman -Syy sudo pacman -Syu ( this can take a while eventually need to restart @ finish ) sudo pacman -S qt5-virtualkeyboard plasma-meta onboard sddm # takes # quite a time : - ) # Create the following directory and file: sudo mkdir /etc/sddm.conf.d cd /etc/sddm.conf.d sudo nano virtualkbd.conf # and paste the content: [General] InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard # and save # create your own user with directory, create password ( recommended to keep it simple ), # replace “andy” with your own user name !! sudo useradd -m andy sudo passwd andy # add your user to sudo group # replace “andy” with your chosen user name sudo usermod -a -G wheel andy # create sddm config file sddm --example-config | sudo tee /etc/sddm.conf # add autologin option for your user to sddm.conf by altering the lines accordingly sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf [Autologin] # Whether sddm should automatically log back into sessions when they exit Relogin=false # Name of session file for autologin session (if empty try last logged in) Session=plasma # Username for autologin session User=andy [General] # Halt command HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard # save the altered config file, exiting nano # enable sddm sudo systemctl enable sddm # check on xorg packages and some essentials sudo pacman -S calls telegram-desktop flatpak kde-utilities-meta sudo pacman -S gnome-contacts kaddressbook communicator thunderbird sudo pacman -S nextcloud-app-calendar nextcloud-app-contacts midori sudo pacman -S navit qt5-connectivity simplescreenrecorder sudo pacman -S modem-manager-gui spacebar kdeconnect sudo pacman -S korganizer kaddressbook base-devel # now it is quite finished, reboot sudo reboot ``` ---
**Author:** ![shivanandvp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/rebornos.discourse.group/shivanandvp/32/10_2.png) [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/arch-barebone-image-brought-to-become-a-desktop-plasma-pinephone-update/512/16 "2021-10-19T07:39:53Z")
You can perhaps post here too: \*so…pinephone…is it for me?. \* [https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/qb5k19/sopinephoneis\_it\_for\_me/](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/qb5k19/sopinephoneis_it_for_me/)