Bazzite (and SteamOS-like hosts) run Steam Big Picture inside their OWN
gamescope-session-plus session. Nesting a second gamescope+Steam can't work — the
second Steam sees the first and exits, taking the nested gamescope down with it
(crash in its exit handlers), killing both video and input. The robust model is to
let punktfunk OWN that session: run gamescope-session-plus headless at the client's
resolution (full Steam Deck UI polish: MangoApp, VRR, controller config) and have
the host ATTACH to it rather than spawn its own.
The video half already existed (PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE=<id> attaches to a
PipeWire node). This finishes it:
- PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_NODE=auto discovers the gamescope Video/Source node, so the
(dynamic) node id needn't be hand-wired.
- The attach path now also points the libei injector at the running session's EIS
socket: find_gamescope_eis_socket() scans XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for gamescope-<N>-ei,
connect()-probes each (stale dead-session sockets refuse), and writes the newest
live one to the relay file the injector reads. So input reaches the attached
session with zero manual config.
scripts/punktfunk-steam-session.service: a systemd --user unit that runs
gamescope-session-plus headless at a configured resolution, with the one-time
headless-appliance setup (linger + multi-user.target) documented inline.
Validated live on bazzite (RTX 4090): the full Steam Big Picture session streams
(1499 frames, p50 ~1ms) with mouse/keyboard injected into it (device resumed, all
caps, emitted=true), node + EIS socket both auto-detected.
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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>
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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