feat(host/gamescope): headless game mode that follows the box + matches the client
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Make Steam game mode work on a display-less streaming host and stream it at the
client's resolution:

* Ship /etc/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam (packaging/bazzite/
  gamescope-headless-session, installed by the RPM + Arch PKGBUILD): fall back to
  gamescope's headless backend when no display is connected, so "Switch to Game
  Mode" boots offscreen instead of crashing on the missing panel (and 5-striking
  back to desktop). No-op on display-attached boxes; only sets unset values so
  the host's per-client mode still wins.

* Default Bazzite/SteamOS to ATTACH (PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_ATTACH=1 in host.env):
  the box owns its session (Desktop<->Game, persistent), the host follows +
  captures it and never tears it down — so switching is rock-solid and a
  disconnect leaves the box in its mode (reconnect returns there).

* Resize-on-attach (gamescope.rs): on connect, ensure the box's own game-mode
  session runs at the CLIENT's resolution — reuse it when already matching (fast
  path, no restart), else reconfigure + restart the box's own autologin
  gamescope-session-plus@<client> at the client mode (cooperative: no competing
  unit, so no autologin-respawn fight). Detect the live gamescope's -W/-H via
  argv[0] in /proc (its /proc/<pid>/exe is unreadable for that process).

Validated live on a headless bazzite-deck-nvidia box: game mode boots headless +
stable (0 strikes); the host attaches + streams video/audio/EIS input; a
5120x1440 client reuses the matching session and streams at 5120x1440.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-06-28 11:09:45 +00:00
parent 50e17b3508
commit 61aa1053e7
5 changed files with 207 additions and 13 deletions
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
//! `inject/libei.rs`) — wired and live-validated.
use super::{Mode, VirtualDisplay, VirtualOutput};
use anyhow::{anyhow, Context, Result};
use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
use std::process::{Child, Command, Stdio};
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
@@ -110,12 +110,11 @@ impl VirtualDisplay for GamescopeDisplay {
// PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE=<id|auto>; "auto" discovers the gamescope `Video/Source` node.
if let Ok(id) = std::env::var("PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE") {
let node_id: u32 = if id.trim().eq_ignore_ascii_case("auto") {
find_gamescope_node().ok_or_else(|| {
anyhow!(
"PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE=auto but no running gamescope Video/Source node \
was found — is the headless gamescope/Steam session up?"
)
})?
// Attach to the box-owned game-mode session, but FIRST make it run at the connecting
// client's resolution (the box is headless, so its game-mode mode is ours to set).
// Reuse if it already matches (fast, no restart); otherwise relaunch the box's own
// session at the client mode. Without this the client gets the box's default mode.
ensure_box_gamescope_mode(mode)?
} else {
id.parse()
.context("PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE must be a node id or 'auto'")?
@@ -368,6 +367,150 @@ fn create_managed_session_steamos(mode: Mode) -> Result<VirtualOutput> {
})
}
/// ATTACH at the CLIENT's resolution: ensure the box's own game-mode session is running at `mode`'s
/// output size, then return its capture node. Reuses the running session if it already matches (no
/// restart — the rock-solid fast path a stable client always hits); otherwise reconfigures + restarts
/// the box's OWN autologin `gamescope-session-plus@<client>` unit at the client mode. Restarting the
/// box's own unit (rather than spawning a competing one) avoids the autologin-respawn fight the old
/// MANAGED path hit. A headless box has no physical panel, so its game-mode resolution is ours to set;
/// Steam restarts only on an actual resolution CHANGE.
fn ensure_box_gamescope_mode(mode: Mode) -> Result<u32> {
let target = (mode.width, mode.height);
// Fast path: already at the client's resolution — just attach to the live node.
if current_gamescope_output_size() == Some(target) {
if let Some(node) = find_gamescope_node() {
tracing::info!(
w = mode.width,
h = mode.height,
node,
"gamescope: box game-mode session already at the client's resolution — reusing"
);
return Ok(node);
}
}
let Some(unit) = running_autologin_gamescope_unit() else {
// No box-owned autologin session to reconfigure (a bare/foreign gamescope): attach to
// whatever node exists, accepting its resolution.
return find_gamescope_node().ok_or_else(|| {
anyhow!(
"no running gamescope Video/Source node — is the headless game mode up? \
(put the box into Steam Game Mode)"
)
});
};
tracing::info!(
from = ?current_gamescope_output_size(),
to_w = mode.width,
to_h = mode.height,
hz = mode.refresh_hz,
%unit,
"gamescope: relaunching the box game-mode session at the client's resolution"
);
// The session reads SCREEN_WIDTH/HEIGHT (+ CUSTOM_REFRESH_RATES) from the user-manager
// environment; set them and restart the box's own unit.
systemctl_user(&[
"set-environment",
&format!("SCREEN_WIDTH={}", mode.width),
&format!("SCREEN_HEIGHT={}", mode.height),
&format!("CUSTOM_REFRESH_RATES={}", mode.refresh_hz.max(1)),
]);
systemctl_user(&["restart", &unit]);
// Wait for the relaunched session to come up at the new size and publish its capture node. The
// node appears when gamescope is up (well before Steam finishes booting); the caller's
// first-frame retry absorbs Steam's cold start.
let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(45);
loop {
if current_gamescope_output_size() == Some(target) {
if let Some(node) = find_gamescope_node() {
tracing::info!(
node,
w = mode.width,
h = mode.height,
"gamescope: box game-mode session relaunched at the client's resolution"
);
return Ok(node);
}
}
if Instant::now() >= deadline {
bail!(
"box game-mode session did not come up at {}x{} within 45s after relaunch \
(Steam may still be booting)",
mode.width,
mode.height
);
}
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500));
}
}
/// Output (capture) resolution `-W <w> -H <h>` of the running `gamescope` binary, parsed from its
/// `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`. `None` if no gamescope is running or the flags aren't present.
fn current_gamescope_output_size() -> Option<(u32, u32)> {
for entry in std::fs::read_dir("/proc").ok()?.flatten() {
let name = entry.file_name();
let Some(pid) = name.to_str() else { continue };
if !pid.bytes().all(|b| b.is_ascii_digit()) {
continue;
}
let Ok(raw) = std::fs::read(format!("/proc/{pid}/cmdline")) else {
continue;
};
let args: Vec<String> = raw
.split(|&b| b == 0)
.filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
.map(|s| String::from_utf8_lossy(s).into_owned())
.collect();
// Match the gamescope BINARY by argv[0]'s basename — NOT /proc/<pid>/exe, which is commonly
// unreadable for the gamescope process (returns empty). The session wrapper scripts run as
// bash/sh (argv[0] != gamescope), so they're excluded; the -W/-H presence check below is the
// final filter.
let is_gamescope = args
.first()
.map(|a0| a0.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or(a0) == "gamescope")
.unwrap_or(false);
if !is_gamescope {
continue;
}
let flag = |names: &[&str]| -> Option<u32> {
args.iter().enumerate().find_map(|(i, a)| {
names
.contains(&a.as_str())
.then(|| args.get(i + 1).and_then(|v| v.parse().ok()))
.flatten()
})
};
if let (Some(w), Some(h)) = (
flag(&["-W", "--output-width"]),
flag(&["-H", "--output-height"]),
) {
return Some((w, h));
}
}
None
}
/// The running autologin gaming-mode unit (`gamescope-session-plus@<client>.service`), if any — the
/// box's own game-mode session, which [`ensure_box_gamescope_mode`] reconfigures + restarts.
fn running_autologin_gamescope_unit() -> Option<String> {
let out = Command::new("systemctl")
.args([
"--user",
"list-units",
"--type=service",
"--state=running",
"--no-legend",
"--plain",
"gamescope-session-plus@*.service",
])
.output()
.ok()?;
String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout)
.lines()
.filter_map(|l| l.split_whitespace().next())
.find(|u| u.starts_with("gamescope-session-plus@") && u.ends_with(".service"))
.map(|u| u.to_string())
}
/// Stop every running autologin gaming-mode session (`gamescope-session-plus@*.service`) so its
/// single-instance Steam is free for our own host-managed session. Records the units so
/// [`schedule_restore_tv_session`] can restart them on disconnect. Our own session is the transient