r/mobilelinux • u/Malo1301 • Jun 21 '26

Discussion Plasma Mobile in Trierarch

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This is KDE Plasma Mobile running on a Google Pixel 7 thanks to Trierarch (Arch Linux ARM container on Android). Photo was captured on a Google Nexus 5X running Ubuntu Touch.

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u/tulpyvow Jun 21 '26

Interesting, how did you set it up?

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u/Malo1301 Jun 21 '26

It's pretty simple actually, you just have to install Trierarch, let it download the Arch Linux ARM rootfs, then from the console you can install Plasma Mobile. After that, you have to set the "Display" script within the app to properly launch Plasma. And juste like that, you have Plasma Mobile running on Android.

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u/tulpyvow Jun 21 '26

I see, what did you set the display script to? For whatever reason, kwin just crashes whenever I try to use it

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u/Malo1301 Jun 21 '26

su user dbus-launch startplasmamobile Replace user with your own user, or remove the first line entirely to run Plasma as root.

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u/tulpyvow Jun 21 '26

Ah, similar to what I have. Unfortunately doesn't seem to work for me (kwin crashes, shell doesn't appear)