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>
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>
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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