Signal Desktop Flatpak for aarch64/arm64 (source)

Updates are untested and shipped automatically by CI. Use repo at your own risk.

To install system wide:

To install for your user:

You will need Flathub repo for the runtimes.

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

Standalone Binaries:

Get them from the latest release, or here: .deb or .flatpak

apt install ./signal-desktop.deb or flatpak install ./signal.flatpak

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:
  • mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications ; cp /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.signal.Signal/current/active/files/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
  • desktop-file-edit --set-key=Exec --set-value="flatpak run org.signal.Signal --use-gl=egl --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland" ~/.local/share/applications/org.signal.Signal.desktop
• 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
• email mail@ this domain
• mention or pm 'elagost' on libera or oftc
• Mastodon

Other Signal arm64 builds:

• Flare, a really good unofficial gtk signal client.
• There are standalone flatpak and deb bundles attached to each release now.
• Alpine APKBUILD (maybe someone could combine efforts with the APKBUILD in Alpine's repos?)
• AUR for Arch
• COPR for Fedora

Maintained by Adam Thiede. This costs money to host; if you find this useful would like to contribute money, donate to Signal Foundation, FSF, or postmarketOS.