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enricobuehler f3615f83a5 fix(gamescope): the takeover no longer kills the host it is running in
Field report, Nobara + 0.20.0: switching into Game Mode mid-stream
disconnects the client and the box never lights up again. His journal has
the whole mechanism, ten seconds apart:

  12:34:18.9  freed Steam: stopped the display manager for this stream
  12:34:29.0  systemd[1685]: Stopping punktfunk-host.service

Stopping the display manager ends the user's last login session. The
packaged host is a `systemd --user` unit, so logind then stops
user@1000.service once UserStopDelaySec elapses — 10s by default on Nobara
— and takes the host with it. The stream dies, the scheduled restore never
runs, and the display manager stays down with nothing left to restart it:
a black box that needs a VT to recover. Exactly the two symptoms reported,
and the intermittency is just whether an active Gaming Mode session was
there to trigger the takeover at all.

It never showed on the repro VM because lingering was enabled there for the
earlier sessionless tests (`Linger=yes` — confirmed on the VM today), which
is precisely the thing that breaks the dependency: logind keeps the user
manager alive with no session. Our KDE/GNOME/Arch setup guides already ask
for it; his box, following the KDE route, did not have it.

So the takeover now ensures lingering BEFORE it touches the display
manager: `loginctl enable-linger` directly (allow_active in logind's own
policy — verified working unprivileged on Nobara), else the packaged helper
gains a `linger` verb that enables it for PKEXEC_UID alone, never a
caller-named user. If neither works the takeover is refused with an
actionable error and managed degrades to attach — mirroring the box's own
session is strictly better than a screen that needs a VT. Hosts that cannot
be reached this way (root, a system unit) skip the check: the cgroup test
is a pure `cgroup_under_user_manager` with a unit test, matched against the
real shapes on a Nobara box (`user@1000.service/app.slice/...` vs a
`session-N.scope`).

Also documents the requirement in the gamescope guide's Nobara section.

Checked on Linux: clippy -D warnings, 78 tests, rustfmt; helper verified
with `sh -n`, and the linger enable/disable round-trip run live on the
Nobara VM.
2026-07-27 19:04:20 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 8d5a9f66c9 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>
2026-07-24 23:41:29 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 a3e21d9227 feat(vdisplay/gamescope): honor in-stream 'Switch to Desktop' under the managed DM takeover
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First on-glass test of the DM-flavor takeover confirmed the black-screen
fix, but exposed that the managed model could not switch back: Steam's
in-stream session-select is a silent no-op while the display manager is
stopped (every config-write branch in os-session-select requires the DM
to be running), so the capture loss it causes just relaunched game mode.

The user pass of the switch script does leave one durable trace — the
~/.config/steamos-session-select sentinel, written before any DM check.
The managed launch now baselines its mtime; a capture loss with the
sentinel advanced reads as the switch request and is honored by
replaying the switch with the DM up: restore the display manager, run
the distro's own os-session-select (its internal pkexec is authorized
allow_any by the distro policy, so it works from the host's sessionless
context), then stop the autologin game-mode unit so Relogin lands in
the newly selected desktop. The capture-loss re-detection then follows
KWin as it comes up; a 120 s post-honor grace stops the rebuild loop
from racing the booting desktop back into game mode (superseded early
if the box's own game-mode unit reappears — the desktop→game leg stays
fast). The baseline is re-recorded on crash-restore so a pre-existing
sentinel never reads as a fresh request. Every verb in the sequence was
live-validated on the Nobara repro VM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 11:49:24 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 e35dad529b fix(vdisplay/gamescope): DM-flavor-aware session takeover — stop masking Nobara's plasmalogin to death
Field report (Nobara 43 HTPC): switching the host to Steam Game Mode
mid-stream permanently black-screened the box. Live-proven root cause on
a Nobara repro VM: our takeover masks the box's gamescope-session-plus
unit, plasmalogin's Relogin=true then fails its session Exec repeatedly
and trips systemd's start limit within ~1 s — the display manager dies,
and our restore verb (unmask + user start) cannot bring a seatless
gamescope back. Only 'reset-failed + restart' of the DM recovers.

The takeover is now display-manager-flavor-aware:
- SDDM (Bazzite/SteamOS) keeps the proven mask+SIGKILL path unchanged.
- plasmalogin/unknown DMs never mask: with privilege (root or an
  operator polkit rule scoped to the DM unit — documented) the host
  stops the DM for the stream and restores it with reset-failed +
  restart (PUNKTFUNK_RECOVER_SESSION_CMD as fallback), recorded in the
  persisted takeover state so a host crash still restores; without
  privilege the managed takeover degrades to ATTACH and mirrors the
  box's live Game Mode instead of destabilizing the seat. Both legs of
  the privileged cycle live-verified on the repro VM (headless managed
  session works with zero login sessions; render nodes are 0666).
  A loaded-but-inactive leftover instance never triggers the DM stop.

Companion fixes from the same triage:
- ensure_box_gamescope_mode gains the attach-only rebuild-probe guard
  both managed paths already had (stale post-capture-loss detection
  restarted the box's unit), and no longer re-modes a box that drives a
  physical display — attach mirrors on-glass; re-mode is the
  headless-box model.
- Capture-loss rebuilds targeting gamescope get a 100 s budget: the
  40 s budget expired inside the first 45 s Steam-cold-start launch
  attempt, a guaranteed single-shot failure.
- A PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR pin now WARNs once per capture loss when the
  live session no longer matches it (the pin disables
  session-following — the reporter's original stream-death trigger).
- A managed session that took nothing over (client gamescope pin beside
  a live desktop) is stopped on disconnect instead of being orphaned
  forever.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 11:49:24 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 6617275387 docs(env): stop teaching the compositor pin + uid-1000 anchors in starters
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Field triage (Nobara, Discord): the kde.md starter host.env told desktop
users to set PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR=kwin, which PINS the backend — detect()
short-circuits and the capture-loss rebuild never re-detects — so a
mid-stream switch to Game Mode killed the stream instead of following it.
A follow-up hardcoded XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 anchor broke PipeWire
for any non-1000 uid (pw audio connect: Creation failed).

Revamp across every starter/example/reference:
- Desktop starters (kde/gnome/hyprland/sway) shrink to
  PUNKTFUNK_VIDEO_SOURCE=virtual + an explicit warning that pinning
  disables session-following; forcing a backend is CI/appliance-only.
- host.env.example: rewritten around auto-detection; anchors demoted to a
  commented ssh/cron-only block with the uid trap spelled out; the
  gamescope ATTACH/MANAGED knobs documented (previously missing);
  case-sensitivity called out.
- packaging/bazzite/host.env + README: drop the uid-1000 anchors (a
  systemctl --user service inherits/derives them); README's stale
  PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR=gamescope-era template synced to the real one.
- packaging/kde/host.env: loud APPLIANCE-ONLY header (it pins on purpose).
- configuration.md: session-anchors section inverted to "leave unset",
  compositor row states the pin consequence, case-sensitivity note.
- troubleshooting.md: new "session fails right after editing host.env"
  section (case, wrong-uid anchors, stale pin, restart-to-apply).
- gamescope.md/bazzite.md: attach/managed descriptions match current
  behavior (managed is the infra-detected default; attach re-modes a
  box-owned session to the client's resolution).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 22:42:59 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 acce43ebbf feat(steamdeck): self-healing reliability — post-OS-update rebuild check + script/docs polish
- rebuild-check.sh + punktfunk-rebuild-check.service (enabled, ordered
  Before=punktfunk-host): ldd-probes the host binary at session start —
  milliseconds when healthy, a full update.sh rebuild only when a
  SteamOS update actually broke its library links. update.sh restarts
  go --no-block so the check → update.sh → restart chain can't deadlock
  against the unit ordering. update.sh retrofits the unit.
- installer summary: web console is https (the unit serves TLS).
- docs: steamos-host.md (runner in the build step, keep-list + auto
  rebuild = updates survive hands-free), gamescope.md (Gaming Mode
  touch = single-finger pointer, exact taps, no multi-touch),
  plugins.mdx (SteamOS runner note), scripts/steamdeck/README.md
  (rebuild-check, runner payload, keep list, honest packaging
  trade-off + the CI-prebuilt future direction).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 11:56:09 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 4.8 76791e53e9 docs: restructure host setup by distro, configuration by compositor
Split the docs' single distro×desktop axis (ubuntu-gnome / ubuntu-kde / fedora-kde) into two,
which deduplicates the shared mechanics and scales to distros that run several desktops (Arch):

- Install the host — per distro/OS (ubuntu, fedora, arch, bazzite, steamos-host, windows-host):
  GPU driver + package + input group, then a canonical "Configure your desktop" funnel.
- Configure your desktop — per compositor (kde, gnome, gamescope, sway): host.env, compositor
  quirks, the headless session, and starting the host.

New shared web-console page (enable · login password · arm pairing) removes the console/password
block that was copy-pasted across all seven host pages. Merged ubuntu-gnome + ubuntu-kde into
ubuntu; renamed fedora-kde to fedora; kept bazzite and steamos-host as dedicated appliance guides
(trimmed of duplication). Moved the KWin headless session, the GNOME EGL/lock traps, and the
gamescope attach/managed model out of the distro pages onto their compositor pages.

Fixed while restructuring: distro-specific paths on kde (kde-desktop-setup.sh is Fedora/Bazzite-only;
the .deb ships host.env.kde under /usr/share/punktfunk-host), the interactive "start the host" step
that was lost in the merge, sway over-claiming Hyprland, and a pre-existing broken anchor in
how-it-works.

Removal of the three old pages was captured by the preceding commit b28ddfc (a concurrent commit
swept up the staged git-rm); the net docs tree is correct. Fumadocs build + internal link/anchor
check green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 21:04:31 +00:00