fix(gamescope): ship a packaged privilege path for the DM-stop takeover
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Field report (Nobara, 0.19.2): entering Game Mode mid-stream left the monitor
on and the stream mirroring at the desktop's resolution. Root cause: the
DM-flavor takeover needs privilege to stop plasmalogin, the polkit rule is a
docs-only manual step nobody installs, so every managed entry silently
degraded to ATTACH — and with a physical display connected the attach path
mirrors the box's own session at its own mode.

Ship the privilege with the packages instead: a root helper
(libexec/punktfunk/pf-dm-helper, verbs stop|restore) behind its own polkit
action (io.unom.punktfunk.dm-helper, allow_any — the same mechanism Nobara's
os-session-select uses, and the helper derives the DM unit from the
display-manager.service symlink itself so callers never name a unit across
the privilege boundary). The host tries the plain system-bus verbs first
(root / operator rule still take precedence), then pkexec's the helper; the
restore paths (idle restore + in-stream desktop-switch honor) use the same
ladder so a takeover that needed the helper can always be undone by it.

Packaged in rpm/deb/arch (Arch under /usr/lib/punktfunk with the policy's
exec.path annotation rewritten; the host probes both layouts). Nix is left
out deliberately: store paths can't match the probe, NixOS keeps the manual
rule. Docs updated — the rule snippet stays as the scoped alternative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-24 23:41:29 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 5c7a9407ff
commit 8d5a9f66c9
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@@ -40,8 +40,16 @@ depends on the display manager driving the autologin:
- **SDDM** (Bazzite, SteamOS): handled automatically — no setup.
- **plasmalogin** (Nobara) and other display managers: the host must stop the display manager
itself for the length of the stream and restart it afterwards, which needs privilege. Allow it
with a polkit rule (adjust the unit and user names to your box):
itself for the length of the stream and restart it afterwards, which needs privilege. The
packages ship that privilege: a root helper (`/usr/libexec/punktfunk/pf-dm-helper`) behind its
own polkit action (`io.unom.punktfunk.dm-helper`), invoked automatically when the plain
`systemctl` verbs are denied — no setup. The helper only stops/restores the unit the
`display-manager.service` symlink points at, the same class of local-seat operation these
distros already authorize for their own session switcher (Nobara's `os-session-select`).
Installed from a tarball, or prefer not to ship the `allow_any` action? Remove the `.policy`
file and use a polkit rule scoped to your user instead (adjust the unit and user names to your
box) — the host tries the plain verbs first, so the rule takes precedence:
```js
// /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-punktfunk-dm.rules
@@ -54,15 +62,16 @@ depends on the display manager driving the autologin:
});
```
Without the rule the host degrades safely: it **attaches** to the live Gaming Mode session
instead (Game Mode stays on the box's display, mirrored to the client) rather than risk the
display manager. If the display-manager restart ever loses its privilege mid-restore,
`PUNKTFUNK_RECOVER_SESSION_CMD` (see [Configuration](/docs/configuration)) is fired as the
fallback.
With no privilege path at all the host degrades safely: it **attaches** to the live Gaming Mode
session instead (Game Mode stays on the box's display at the box's own resolution, mirrored to
the client — if your monitor stays on and the stream runs at the desktop's resolution, this is
what happened; check the host log for "managed takeover unavailable"). If the display-manager
restart ever loses its privilege mid-restore, `PUNKTFUNK_RECOVER_SESSION_CMD` (see
[Configuration](/docs/configuration)) is fired as the fallback.
With the rule in place the **in-stream session switch round-trips** in managed mode: Steam's
"Switch to Desktop" inside the streamed Game Mode returns the box to its desktop session and the
stream follows it there; the desktop's "Return to Gaming Mode" switches it forward again.
With the takeover authorized the **in-stream session switch round-trips** in managed mode:
Steam's "Switch to Desktop" inside the streamed Game Mode returns the box to its desktop session
and the stream follows it there; the desktop's "Return to Gaming Mode" switches it forward again.
## Session following