Root cause of "input doesn't work" on the unified host: a single fresh session
injects fine (EIS connects, "Gamescope Virtual Input" device added), but the
host-lifetime injector reused a STALE per-session EIS socket across sessions →
"connect EIS socket …: Connection refused". (Headless gamescope is EIS-only — it
ignores uinput — so libei/EIS is the one input path for both gamescope and KWin;
no second path needed.)
- connect_socket_file: re-READ the relay file and RETRY the connect on
refused/missing (the live gamescope's EIS appears shortly), bounded at 15s,
instead of connecting once and bubbling ECONNREFUSED.
- GamescopeProc::drop: clear the relayed EIS socket name on teardown so a dead
session can't hand a stale path to the next reconnect.
Validated: two sessions back-to-back each reconnect (EIS connected + device added).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A client can now request which compositor backend the host drives its virtual
output on (gamescope/KWin/Mutter/wlroots). The host honors the request if that
backend is available, else falls back to auto-detect and reports the resolved
choice back — wire-compatible both directions (no ABI bump).
Protocol (punktfunk-core):
- New CompositorPref (config.rs): Auto|Kwin|Wlroots|Mutter|Gamescope with
u8/name mappings. Appended as one optional byte to Hello (client preference)
and Welcome (host's resolved choice). Both decoders already tolerate trailing
bytes, so old↔new interop is preserved — ABI_VERSION stays 2. Round-trip +
back-compat (truncated-message) tests.
- C ABI: punktfunk_connect_ex(compositor) + PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR_* constants;
punktfunk_connect delegates with AUTO, so the existing symbol is unchanged.
NativeClient::connect / worker_main thread the preference through.
Host:
- vdisplay::available() enumerates usable backends via cheap, side-effect-free
probes (KWin zkde global, gamescope binary+version, GNOME/Sway env), plus
Compositor id/label/as_pref/from_pref/all helpers.
- m3 handshake resolves the preference to a concrete backend during the
handshake (pick_compositor pure + resolved logging), reports it in Welcome,
and threads it into virtual_stream (replacing the unconditional detect()).
- mgmt GET /v1/compositors lists every backend with availability + the
auto-detected default (OpenAPI regenerated).
Client:
- punktfunk-client-rs --compositor NAME; logs the host's resolved choice from
the Welcome ("session offer … compositor=…").
Web console:
- Host page gains a Compositors card (availability + default badges) via the
codegen'd useListCompositors hook; en/de strings added.
Also fixes a pre-existing, env-dependent test-isolation bug:
mgmt::tests::paired_clients_list_and_unpair seeded the real
~/.config/punktfunk/paired.json (AppState::new loads it), so a real
GameStream-paired client leaked into body[0] on a dev box — now cleared first.
Live-validated against headless KWin: --compositor kwin honored, --compositor
mutter falls back to kwin (available=[kwin, gamescope]), resolved choice
round-trips to the client. Tests: +6 (wire/back-compat, resolution precedence,
endpoint); workspace green, clippy/fmt clean, C ABI harness PASS at abi_version=2,
web typecheck + build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hardens the virtual-display → capture → encode bring-up against the transient
failures that surfaced as black screens / wrong refresh on cold KDE sessions.
- m3: build_pipeline_with_retry wraps the initial vd.create() + first-frame with
bounded exponential backoff (4 attempts, 500ms→2s). is_permanent_build_error
classifies config/version/missing-tool failures so they fail fast instead of
burning the retry budget. Encoder + frame clock now pace to the *achieved*
refresh reported in VirtualOutput::preferred_mode, not the requested rate.
- capture/linux: PortalCapturer::Drop sends a pipewire channel quit and joins the
thread, so a dropped/failed/retried capturer releases its PipeWire thread + EGL/
CUDA context promptly instead of leaking it to process exit. First-frame timeout
now reports the node id and distinguishes "format never negotiated" from
"negotiated but no buffers arrived" via a negotiated flag set in param_changed.
- vdisplay/kwin: set_custom_refresh reads back the active mode from kscreen-doctor
and returns the refresh KWin actually gave us (a rejected custom mode silently
leaves the output at 60Hz); create() carries it into preferred_mode.
- vdisplay/gamescope: find_gamescope_node requires the Video/Source object (the
node.name=gamescope tag is on two objects; the other wedges the link); a version
check warns on <3.16.22 (the PipeWire-1.6 capture-deadlock signature).
Live-validated against headless KWin: 720p120 build with requested=120 achieved=120,
zero-copy CUDA frames, and no per-session thread accumulation across back-to-back
sessions. Tests: +3 unit (retry classifier, gamescope version parse); 49 host tests
green, clippy/fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Headless KDE startup was a chain of timing-sensitive handoffs gated by a blind `sleep 2`,
the dominant source of black screens. Phase-1 fixes:
- New `punktfunk-host probe-compositor` subcommand: exits 0 iff the detected compositor is
up AND ready to create a virtual output now. KWin gets a real check (connect + registry
roundtrip + the privileged zkde_screencast global must be advertised — what the backend
needs); gamescope/Mutter/wlroots create on demand so the probe just confirms Linux.
(vdisplay::probe dispatcher + kwin::probe; reuses kwin.rs's existing roundtrip path.)
- run-headless-kde.sh: replace `sleep 2` with an active readiness wait (poll probe-compositor
until ready, 30s deadline, and bail with kwin's log if kwin_wayland exits during init).
Move the portal restart to AFTER readiness, and precede it with `systemctl --user
import-environment` + `dbus-update-activation-environment` (the missing env import — the
Sway script does this; without it a restarted portal inherits a stale/empty WAYLAND_DISPLAY,
which is the "streams but eats no input/audio" failure). kwin's stderr → a log file.
Validated: probe-compositor exits 0 "Kwin ready" against the live session, exit 1 with a
clear diagnostic when the compositor is absent. 114 tests green, clippy/fmt clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Triaged the multi-agent review of the renegotiation + pairing + Sway + AV1/surround batch
(1 critical, 11 major/minor confirmed). Fixes:
CRITICAL — PIN pairing was offline-brute-forceable. The HMAC-of-PIN proof let an active
MITM who terminates the TOFU ceremony recover the 4-digit PIN by offline dictionary search
(all other inputs observable) and forge a correctly-bound proof. Replaced with **SPAKE2**
(balanced PAKE, `spake2` crate) + key-confirmation MACs, binding both cert fingerprints as
the SPAKE2 identities: an attacker gets exactly ONE online guess, no offline search, and
mismatched cert views (a real MITM) never reach a shared key. Also reworked the UX to an
"arming PIN" — one PIN per arming window shown at host startup (the SPAKE2 client needs the
PIN to build its first message, so it can't be minted per-connection). Validated live:
wrong PIN rejected in 0.1s, right PIN pairs + persists + the paired identity streams.
Pairing hardening: `--allow-pairing`/`--require-pairing` must arm pairing (default rejects
unsolicited ceremonies); per-host cooldown bounds online guessing; the client flushes its
CONNECTION_CLOSE so a refused ceremony can't wedge the sequential host for the full timeout;
atomic (temp+rename) paired-store writes.
Protocol: control/pairing messages use a distinct CTL_MAGIC (PKFc) — fully disjoint from
the positional Hello namespace (a future abi_version can't be misparsed as a control
message); all typed decodes are length-exact. ABI_VERSION → 2 (punktfunk_connect signature
gained the identity params; header regenerated).
Renegotiation: drain the reconfig channel to the NEWEST mode (one rebuild, not one per
stale step); validate refresh_hz; build the new pipeline BEFORE dropping the old so a
rebuild failure keeps the session on its current mode instead of killing it.
GameStream: packetDuration snaps to {5,10} (an in-between value isn't a legal Opus frame
size and would kill audio). Sway: chooser file moved to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (was a fixed
world-writable /tmp path — DoS / capture-misdirection by another local user).
Swift: fixed two compile breakers in the new pairing/identity APIs (Int32 status .rawValue,
UInt cap cast). New SPAKE2 + namespace-disjointness + pairing-roundtrip unit tests; the
in-process pairing test now also exercises the arming PIN + cooldown. 114 tests green,
clippy -D warnings clean (both feature sets), fmt, C-ABI harness.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fourth VirtualDisplay backend: `swaymsg create_output` adds a HEADLESS-N
output (name found by diffing get_outputs), `output <NAME> mode --custom
WxH@HzHz` sets the client's exact mode (and the refresh clock a fresh headless
output needs to produce frames at all), and the PipeWire node comes from the
ScreenCast portal. Headless output selection is non-interactive via
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr's chooser hook: a managed config (chooser_type=simple,
chooser_cmd cats /tmp/punktfunk-xdpw-output; portal try-restarted when the
config changes) plus a per-session `Monitor: <NAME>` written to that file.
Teardown is RAII: drop ends the portal thread (zbus connection drop ends the
cast) then `swaymsg output <NAME> unplug`. swaymsg commands go after `--` so
tokens like `--custom` reach sway instead of swaymsg's getopt.
Validated live on headless sway 1.11 (gles2-on-NVIDIA, xdpw 0.8.1), zero-copy
dmabuf→CUDA on both runs: 720p60 257 frames p50 0.77 ms, 1080p60 480/480
frames p50 1.18 ms, output unplugged with the session both times. The
checked-in xdpw.config sample now matches the managed config (the old
chooser_type=none/HEADLESS-1 form would pin capture to the wrong output).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full project rename, decided 2026-06-10:
- Crates/binaries: punktfunk-core / punktfunk-host / punktfunk-client-rs.
- C ABI: punktfunk_* symbols, Punktfunk* types, include/punktfunk_core.h,
PUNKTFUNK_FEATURE_QUIC guard (header regenerated; cbindgen renames updated, incl.
PUNKTFUNK_BTN_*/PUNKTFUNK_AXIS_* wire constants).
- Protocol: punktfunk/1 — control-plane magic LMN1 → PKF1, nonce salt lmn1 → pkf1.
WIRE BREAK: clients must be rebuilt from this revision.
- Env knobs: PUNKTFUNK_VIDEO_SOURCE / PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR / PUNKTFUNK_ZEROCOPY / ….
- Host config dir: ~/.config/punktfunk (the box's dir was migrated in place — the
persistent identity is unchanged, pinned fingerprints stay valid).
- Swift package: PunktfunkKit + PunktfunkCore.xcframework + PunktfunkConnection
(Sources/PunktfunkClient app + tests renamed with it); build-xcframework.sh updated.
- scripts/: 60-punktfunk.rules, punktfunk-host.service; OpenAPI doc regenerated.
Also: scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh — full headless Plasma bringup. Root cause of
"desktop but no apps/settings" over the stream: plasmashell launched without
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-, so the launcher resolved a nonexistent applications.menu and
rendered an empty menu. The script sets the complete KDE session env (menu prefix,
KDE_FULL_SESSION, session version) and rebuilds ksycoca before starting plasmashell.
Gate: 97/97 tests, clippy -D warnings (both feature sets), fmt, C-ABI harness PASS,
zero lumen references left outside .git.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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