feat(clients): every pinned card gets a library, and it launches with that card's profile

The console fix before this one closed the leak on one client. The same question
has a different wrong answer on each of the others, so this closes it everywhere:
a pinned host+profile card can be browsed, and every title launched off a pinned
card's shelf streams with that card's profile.

Two shapes of bug, one per client:

**The library was not offered on a pinned card at all** — Apple (both UIs:
`hasLibrary: profile == nil` on the console tile, no menu item on the touch card),
Android (`hasLibrary` required `pinnedProfileId == null`, and the console host
options gated Library on `pin == null`), GTK (the pinned card's menu had Connect,
Copy link, Create shortcut, Unpin — no library) and Windows (pinned tiles had no
menu whatsoever). Each was justified in a comment as "a pin is a shortcut, not a
second host, so the host-level actions stay on the host's tile" — right about
wake, pair, edit and forget, wrong about the library. Browsing is not a property
of the machine: it is this card's connect with a title picked first, which is
exactly what a shortcut is for. So the library joins Connect on every pinned
surface, and the host-level actions stay where they were.

**The launch dropped the profile.** GTK already carried it (its library clones
the card's whole ConnectRequest) and Windows already carried it (its library page
launches through the shared target, which the tile parks). Apple did not: the
library was keyed on a bare `StoredHost`, so `launchTitle` connected with
`.inherit` and the host's binding won even from a pinned card. Android was worse
still, and not only for pins — `LibraryScreen` dialled `connectToHost` with the
RAW settings, so a library launch applied NO profile at all, not even the host's
binding, on every host. Its host list resolves
`settings.effectiveFor(profileStore.resolveFor(kh, oneOff))`; its library resolved
nothing.

So the shelf, not the host, is now the unit both clients navigate by. Apple gets
a `LibraryTarget` (host + `ProfileSelection`) threaded through `libraryTarget`,
the shell's screen enum, both presentations and `SessionModel`; Android passes
the pinned id into `LibraryScreen` and resolves it there through the same
`ProfileStore.resolveFor` rule the connect path uses. Falling out of that:

  * a game that exits returns to the shelf it was launched from, pin and all,
    rather than to the host's default one — `SessionModel.launchedShelf` on Apple,
    `ActiveSession.libraryProfileId` → `LibraryReturn` on Android. Android also
    drops a pin that was unpinned while the game ran, rather than reopening a card
    that no longer exists.
  * Android's stats overlay finally names the profile a library launch used
    (`profileName` was never set on that path).
  * Apple's `punktfunk://browse/<host>` honours `profile=`, which it parsed and
    ignored — and refuses an unknown or ambiguous reference exactly as the connect
    route does (§10.6) rather than degrading to the binding.
  * every shelf says which one it is, in the card's own `host · profile` shape:
    the console's title, GTK's page title, Android's ConsoleHeader, Apple's
    navigation title and its console heading.

Verified per platform, none of it on trust:
  * console + GTK: fmt, build, clippy `-D warnings` and 85 tests green in the
    pf-lxcheck2 container (a Mac `cargo test -p pf-console-ui` compiles nothing).
  * Apple: `swift build` green for macOS, iOS and tvOS. Worth all three — the tvOS
    pass alone caught `navigationDestination(item:)` needing Hashable, and an
    iOS-only screen was confirmed genuinely compiled by planting a type error.
  * Android: `compileDebugKotlin` + unit tests, with HomeTilesTest's pin
    expectation flipped to match.
  * Windows: `cargo check --all-targets` + clippy `-D warnings` on the CI runner,
    cold (3m10s) — that client cannot compile on a Mac.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -42,6 +42,27 @@ availability probe. The `comm` fast path is still one read for every ordinary di
 Also reached by the same rung: `gamescope` carries `cap_sys_nice` on a number of distros, so a
 *wrapped and capped* gamescope was equally invisible to the foreign-gamescope probe.
 
+### Game Mode on Nobara — the WSI opt-out never reached the games
+
+🛑 **v0.27.0's fix for the distro Vulkan WSI layer was clobbered by the session script, so games ran
+on a black screen** while the host's own log claimed the layer had been disabled. Steam Big Picture
+came up, showed the right mode, showed the perf overlay — and then every game played sound and took
+input over a black picture, with no error on either side.
+
+The layer (`VkLayer_FROG_gamescope_wsi`) ships with the *distro's* gamescope and speaks its
+`gamescope_swapchain` protocol; ours disagrees, so the compositor rejects the client's
+`swapchain_feedback` and kills it. v0.27.0 turned the layer off with `ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0` on the
+session unit. `gamescope-session-plus` then runs an unconditional `export ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1`
+near the top of the script — before it launches anything — so the opt-out survived exactly as long
+as it took the script to start, and every process the session spawned got the layer back. Nothing
+looked wrong because the casualty is Vulkan clients specifically: Steam's own UI is not one.
+
+The opt-out is now `DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1` as well. The Vulkan loader reads an implicit layer's
+two manifest knobs in a fixed order: `enable_environment` must equal `"1"` to switch the layer on,
+and `disable_environment` is then consulted last and wins on **presence alone**, at any value. The
+session script never mentions that second variable, so it is the one that survives. Both spellings
+go out, on the transient unit and on the box's own session drop-in.
+
 ## v0.27.0
 
 87 commits since v0.26.0.

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/App.kt

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import io.unom.punktfunk.kit.link.HostResolution
 import io.unom.punktfunk.kit.SessionEndReason
 import io.unom.punktfunk.kit.security.KnownHostStore
 import io.unom.punktfunk.models.ActiveSession
+import io.unom.punktfunk.models.LibraryReturn
 import io.unom.punktfunk.models.Tab
 import kotlin.math.roundToInt
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ fun App(forceGamepadUi: Boolean = false) {
     // whose library the console shell should come back to. Held HERE because the shell's own
     // navigation state does not outlive the stream. Cleared once the shell has consumed it, so a
     // later manual Back out of the library is not undone by a stale value.
-    var reopenLibraryHostId by remember { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
+    var reopenLibrary by remember { mutableStateOf<LibraryReturn?>(null) }
 
     // Console (gamepad) mode mirrors the Apple client: the setting AND (its mode says Always OR a
     // pad is attached OR this is a TV OR the dev force flag). Flips live as controllers
@@ -139,9 +140,9 @@ fun App(forceGamepadUi: Boolean = false) {
                 // than all the way out to host selection. The console shell's own screen state does
                 // not survive the stream (StreamScreen replaces it in the composition, discarding
                 // its `remember`s), so the intent is hoisted here and handed back on the way in.
-                reopenLibraryHostId =
+                reopenLibrary =
                     if (reason == SessionEndReason.GAME_EXITED && active.launchedFromLibrary) {
-                        active.hostId
+                        active.hostId?.let { LibraryReturn(it, active.libraryProfileId) }
                     } else {
                         null
                     }
@@ -154,8 +155,8 @@ fun App(forceGamepadUi: Boolean = false) {
                 onConnected = { session = it },
                 deepLink = pendingLink,
                 onDeepLinkHandled = { activity?.pendingDeepLink = null },
-                reopenLibraryHostId = reopenLibraryHostId,
+                reopenLibrary = reopenLibrary,
-                onReopenLibraryHandled = { reopenLibraryHostId = null },
+                onReopenLibraryHandled = { reopenLibrary = null },
             )
         } else {
             // Adaptive nav: a bottom bar on phones; on tablets / large windows a side NavigationRail
@@ -282,15 +283,19 @@ fun GamepadShell(
     deepLink: String? = null,
     onDeepLinkHandled: () -> Unit = {},
     /**
-     * Open this saved host's library instead of Home on the way in — set when a game launched from
+     * Open this library shelf instead of Home on the way in — set when a game launched from it has
-     * it has just exited. Null (the default) starts on Home exactly as before.
+     * just exited. Null (the default) starts on Home exactly as before.
      */
-    reopenLibraryHostId: String? = null,
+    reopenLibrary: LibraryReturn? = null,
     onReopenLibraryHandled: () -> Unit = {},
 ) {
     val context = LocalContext.current
     var screen by remember { mutableStateOf(GamepadScreen.Home) }
     var libraryHost by remember { mutableStateOf<io.unom.punktfunk.kit.security.KnownHost?>(null) }
+    // Which of that host's shelves is open: the pinned card's profile id, or null for the host's
+    // own tile (design §5.2a). Held beside `libraryHost` because it is the same navigation fact —
+    // a pinned card and its host are two tiles, and the library belongs to whichever you pressed.
+    var libraryPinId by remember { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
     // Where the settings screen was when a sub-screen took over. The shell's AnimatedContent
     // discards a screen's `remember`s the moment it stops being the target, so a trip out to the
     // Controllers view and back would otherwise land on the Stream tab's first row — the couch
@@ -301,15 +306,21 @@ fun GamepadShell(
     // Consume the "come back to this library" intent once, on entry. Keyed on the id so a second
     // game exit re-fires it; the parent clears it immediately, so a manual Back stays backed out.
     // A host that has since been forgotten simply leaves us on Home rather than failing.
-    LaunchedEffect(reopenLibraryHostId) {
+    LaunchedEffect(reopenLibrary) {
-        val id = reopenLibraryHostId ?: return@LaunchedEffect
+        val (id, pinId) = reopenLibrary ?: return@LaunchedEffect
         // Navigate BEFORE acknowledging: acknowledging clears the parent's state, which re-keys
         // this effect and cancels the coroutine running it. Nothing suspends in between today, so
         // either order happens to work — but this one cannot be broken by a later edit that adds a
         // suspending call. A host that has since been forgotten just leaves us on Home.
         KnownHostStore(context).all()
             .firstOrNull { it.id == id }
-            ?.let { libraryHost = it; screen = GamepadScreen.Library }
+            // A pin unpinned while the game was running is no longer a shelf: fall back to the
+            // host's own, rather than a card that no longer exists.
+            ?.let { kh ->
+                libraryHost = kh
+                libraryPinId = pinId?.takeIf { it in kh.pinnedProfileIds }
+                screen = GamepadScreen.Library
+            }
         onReopenLibraryHandled()
     }
 
@@ -377,7 +388,11 @@ fun GamepadShell(
                 onDeepLinkHandled = onDeepLinkHandled,
                 gamepadUi = true,
                 onOpenSettings = { screen = GamepadScreen.Settings },
-                onOpenLibrary = { host -> libraryHost = host; screen = GamepadScreen.Library },
+                onOpenLibrary = { host, pinId ->
+                    libraryHost = host
+                    libraryPinId = pinId
+                    screen = GamepadScreen.Library
+                },
                 navGate = s == screen,
             )
             GamepadScreen.Settings -> GamepadSettingsScreen(
@@ -407,8 +422,9 @@ fun GamepadShell(
                     host = host,
                     settings = settings,
                     onLaunched = onConnected,
-                    onBack = { screen = GamepadScreen.Home; libraryHost = null },
+                    onBack = { screen = GamepadScreen.Home; libraryHost = null; libraryPinId = null },
                     navActive = s == screen,
+                    pinnedProfileId = libraryPinId,
                 )
             } ?: run { screen = GamepadScreen.Home }
         }

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/ConnectPrompts.kt

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ internal fun ConnectPrompts(
     optionsTarget: HostCardEntry?,
     onDismissOptions: () -> Unit,
     libraryEnabled: Boolean,
-    onOpenLibrary: (KnownHost) -> Unit,
+    onOpenLibrary: (KnownHost, String?) -> Unit,
     onWake: (KnownHost) -> Unit,
     onSpeedTest: (KnownHost) -> Unit,
     onCopyLink: (KnownHost, StreamProfile?) -> Unit,
@@ -119,9 +119,11 @@ internal fun ConnectPrompts(
             canWake = kh.mac.isNotEmpty() && offline,
             onWake = { onDismissOptions(); onWake(kh) },
             // A saved host always has a library (it's a knownHost) → offer it when the setting's on,
-            // so a TV remote reaches the library here instead of via the Y face button.
+            // so a TV remote reaches the library here instead of via the Y face button. A PIN card
-            onLibrary = if (libraryEnabled && pin == null) {
+            // gets it too, opening its own shelf: unlike wake/edit/forget, the library is a way to
-                { onDismissOptions(); onOpenLibrary(kh) }
+            // start the card, not a property of the host.
+            onLibrary = if (libraryEnabled) {
+                { onDismissOptions(); onOpenLibrary(kh, pin?.id) }
             } else {
                 null
             },

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/ConnectScreen.kt

@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ fun ConnectScreen(
     // gamepad shell owns (the touch UI reaches Settings via the bottom bar and has no library button).
     gamepadUi: Boolean = false,
     onOpenSettings: () -> Unit = {},
-    onOpenLibrary: (KnownHost) -> Unit = {},
+    // (host, pinned profile id) — a pinned host+profile card opens ITS shelf, and the id is the
+    // one-off every launch off that shelf runs with (design §5.2a). Null = the host's own tile.
+    onOpenLibrary: (KnownHost, String?) -> Unit = { _, _ -> },
     navGate: Boolean = true, // false while the console home is cross-fading out
     // A `punktfunk://` URL to route (design/client-deep-links.md §3). This screen owns it because
     // it owns the connect path — trust decisions, the local-network grant, wake-and-retry — and a
@@ -772,7 +774,7 @@ fun ConnectScreen(
                 awaiting == null && editTarget == null && optionsTarget == null &&
                 speedTest == null && waker.waking == null && !lnpPrompt,
             onActivate = { it.activate() },
-            onOpenLibrary = { it.knownHost?.let(onOpenLibrary) },
+            onOpenLibrary = { tile -> tile.knownHost?.let { onOpenLibrary(it, tile.pinnedProfileId) } },
             onOpenSettings = onOpenSettings,
             onOptions = { tile ->
                 tile.knownHost?.let { kh ->

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/GamepadHome.kt

@@ -86,8 +86,10 @@ class HomeTile(
     val knownHost: KnownHost? = null, // set for saved hosts → enables the library (Y)
     /**
      * Set when this tile is a PINNED host+profile combination rather than the host's own tile.
-     * A pin is a shortcut, not a second host: the host-level actions (wake, edit, forget, library)
+     * A pin is a shortcut, not a second host: the host-level actions (wake, edit, forget) belong
-     * belong to the host's own tile, and this one offers only Unpin.
+     * to the host's own tile, and this one offers only Unpin. The library is NOT one of those —
+     * it is a way to start this card (a connect with a title picked first), so a pinned tile opens
+     * its own shelf and every launch off it carries this profile.
      */
     val pinnedProfileId: String? = null,
     /**
@@ -101,9 +103,10 @@ class HomeTile(
     val profileAccent: Color? = null,
     val activate: () -> Unit,
 ) {
-    // Any SAVED host offers the library (matches Apple) — the fetch itself returns a clear "pair
+    // Any SAVED host offers the library (matches Apple), pinned cards included — the fetch itself
-    // first" message if the host hasn't authorized this device for its management API.
+    // returns a clear "pair first" message if the host hasn't authorized this device for its
-    val hasLibrary: Boolean get() = knownHost != null && pinnedProfileId == null
+    // management API.
+    val hasLibrary: Boolean get() = knownHost != null
 }
 
 /**

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/LibraryScreen.kt

@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ fun LibraryScreen(
     onLaunched: (ActiveSession) -> Unit,
     onBack: () -> Unit,
     navActive: Boolean = true,
+    /**
+     * The profile this shelf launches with, when it was opened from a PINNED host+profile card
+     * (design §5.2a) rather than the host's own tile: a one-off, exactly like the card's plain
+     * connect. Null = the host's tile, and the host's binding decides — the same rule
+     * [ProfileStore.resolveFor] applies to every other connect.
+     */
+    pinnedProfileId: String? = null,
 ) {
     val ink = LocalGamepadInk.current
     BackHandler(onBack = onBack)
@@ -104,6 +111,14 @@ fun LibraryScreen(
     var state by remember { mutableStateOf<LibState>(LibState.Loading) }
     // A launch (connect) in flight: shows an overlay + gates the pad so a second press can't dial twice.
     var launching by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    // The profile every launch off this shelf runs with, resolved ONCE per shelf by the same rule
+    // the host-list connect uses: this card's pin as the one-off, else the host's binding, else the
+    // globals. Resolved here rather than per launch so a profile edited mid-browse cannot make two
+    // titles on one shelf stream differently.
+    val profile = remember(host.id, pinnedProfileId) {
+        ProfileStore(context).resolveFor(host, pinnedProfileId)
+    }
+    val streamSettings = remember(settings, profile) { settings.effectiveFor(profile) }
 
     LaunchedEffect(host.address, host.port, host.fpHex) {
         state = LibState.Loading
@@ -133,7 +148,16 @@ fun LibraryScreen(
         Box(Modifier.fillMaxSize().hazeSource(hazeState)) {
             GamepadAuroraBackground(Modifier.fillMaxSize())
             Column(Modifier.fillMaxSize().consoleSafeArea()) {
-                ConsoleHeader("${host.name} — Library")
+                // A pinned card's shelf says so, in the card's own `host · profile` shape: what a
+                // launch here will use is a property of the shelf, not something to remember from
+                // the tile two screens back.
+                ConsoleHeader(
+                    if (pinnedProfileId != null && profile != null) {
+                        "${host.name} · ${profile.name} — Library"
+                    } else {
+                        "${host.name} — Library"
+                    },
+                )
                 Box(Modifier.weight(1f).fillMaxWidth(), contentAlignment = Alignment.Center) {
                     when (val s = state) {
                         is LibState.Loading -> LoadingState()
@@ -145,7 +169,7 @@ fun LibraryScreen(
                                     // Dial the host over the same pinned mTLS trust, booting straight
                                     // into this title (the host resolves `launch` = its library id).
                                     val handle = connectToHost(
-                                        context, settings, s.identity,
+                                        context, streamSettings, s.identity,
                                         host.address, host.port, host.fpHex, launch = game.id,
                                     )
                                     launching = false
@@ -153,11 +177,14 @@ fun LibraryScreen(
                                         onLaunched(
                                             ActiveSession(
                                                 handle,
-                                                settings,
+                                                streamSettings,
                                                 host.clipboardSync,
+                                                profileName = profile?.name,
                                                 hostId = host.id,
-                                                // Where to come back to when this game exits.
+                                                // Where to come back to when this game exits —
+                                                // this shelf, pin and all, not the host's default one.
                                                 launchedFromLibrary = true,
+                                                libraryProfileId = pinnedProfileId,
                                             ),
                                         )
                                     }

clients/android/app/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/models/UiModels.kt

@@ -71,8 +71,24 @@ data class ActiveSession(
      * [io.unom.punktfunk.kit.SessionEndReason.GAME_EXITED] ending.
      */
     val launchedFromLibrary: Boolean = false,
+    /**
+     * Which of [hostId]'s shelves that library launch came off: the pinned host+profile card's
+     * profile id (design §5.2a), or null for the host's own tile. Carried purely so the return
+     * trip above lands back on the SAME shelf — a player who launched from a pinned card is still
+     * on that card when the game exits, and coming back to the host's default shelf would silently
+     * change what the next title streams with.
+     */
+    val libraryProfileId: String? = null,
 )
 
+/**
+ * The library shelf a finished game launch should return to: the saved host's id, and the pinned
+ * profile card it was opened from (null = the host's own tile). One value rather than two parallel
+ * ones, because a hostId that arrives without its profile is not "the same shelf" — it is the
+ * default one wearing the same name.
+ */
+data class LibraryReturn(val hostId: String, val profileId: String? = null)
+
 /** Trust state of a host, shown as a colored pill on its card. */
 enum class HostStatus(val label: String) {
     PAIRED("Paired"),

clients/android/app/src/test/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/HomeTilesTest.kt

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import io.unom.punktfunk.kit.discovery.DiscoveredHost
 import io.unom.punktfunk.kit.security.KnownHost
 import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
-import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
 import org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull
 import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
 import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
@@ -177,9 +176,10 @@ class HomeTilesTest {
             assertTrue(it.paired)
             assertNotNull(it.knownHost)
         }
-        // Host tile → library (Y); pin tile → none, because a pin is a shortcut, not a second host.
+        // Both tiles reach the library (Y): a pin card opens its OWN shelf, whose launches carry
+        // the pinned profile — the library is a way to start a card, not a host-level action.
         assertTrue(result[0].hasLibrary)
-        assertFalse(result[1].hasLibrary)
+        assertTrue(result[1].hasLibrary)
     }
 
     /**

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/ContentView.swift

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct ContentView: View {
     /// drives the cancelable "Waiting for approval" prompt and the pin-as-paired on success.
     @State private var awaitingApproval: ApprovalRequest?
     @State private var speedTestTarget: StoredHost?
-    @State private var libraryTarget: StoredHost?
+    @State private var libraryTarget: LibraryTarget?
     /// Wakes a sleeping host and waits for it to come back online before connecting (drives the
     /// "Waking…" phase of the connect overlay). Available on every platform now that the iOS/tvOS
     /// multicast entitlement is granted (see PunktfunkConnection.wakeOnLANAvailable).
@@ -412,10 +412,10 @@ struct ContentView: View {
         // (like the sheets below) so it survives the streaming → home transition the disconnect
         // drives, and consumed here — the model hands the host over once and we clear it, so a
         // later manual dismiss of the library can't be undone by a stale value.
-        .onChange(of: model.returnToLibrary) { _, host in
+        .onChange(of: model.returnToLibrary) { _, shelf in
-            guard let host else { return }
+            guard let shelf else { return }
             model.returnToLibrary = nil
-            libraryTarget = host
+            libraryTarget = shelf
         }
         // On the outer Group so the sheet survives the trust-prompt → home transition
         // (the "Pair with PIN instead" path disconnects first — the host's accept loop
@@ -448,9 +448,9 @@ struct ContentView: View {
         // (the coverflow is a GeometryReader, ideal ≈ zero), so without a frame it collapses to a
         // tiny panel.
         #if os(macOS)
-        .sheet(item: $libraryTarget) { host in
+        .sheet(item: $libraryTarget) { shelf in
             NavigationStack {
-                LibraryView(store: store, host: host, onLaunch: { launchTitle(host, $0) })
+                LibraryView(store: store, target: shelf, onLaunch: { launchTitle(shelf, $0) })
             }
             .frame(minWidth: 940, minHeight: 620)
         }
@@ -461,9 +461,9 @@ struct ContentView: View {
         // tile, `returnToLibrary`) keeps writing the same `libraryTarget` either way, and a
         // controller arriving or leaving mid-browse hands the open library to whichever
         // presentation the new mode owns.
-        .fullScreenCover(item: touchLibraryTarget) { host in
+        .fullScreenCover(item: touchLibraryTarget) { shelf in
             NavigationStack {
-                LibraryView(store: store, host: host, onLaunch: { launchTitle(host, $0) })
+                LibraryView(store: store, target: shelf, onLaunch: { launchTitle(shelf, $0) })
             }
         }
         #endif
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ struct ContentView: View {
 
     /// The iOS library cover's item: `libraryTarget`, hidden while the gamepad shell presents
     /// the library in place (see the cover's comment).
-    private var touchLibraryTarget: Binding<StoredHost?> {
+    private var touchLibraryTarget: Binding<LibraryTarget?> {
         Binding(
             get: { gamepadUIActive ? nil : libraryTarget },
             set: { libraryTarget = $0 })
@@ -743,6 +743,25 @@ struct ContentView: View {
     /// library fetch rides the paired mTLS identity, so there is nothing to show before the host
     /// is saved (the notice says what to do instead).
     private func openLibrary(from link: DeepLink) {
+        // A `profile=` on a browse link picks the shelf, exactly as it picks the settings on a
+        // connect link — and refuses the same way (§10.6): an unknown or ambiguous reference must
+        // never quietly degrade to the host's binding, which is a different shelf wearing the same
+        // host's name.
+        var selection = ProfileSelection.inherit
+        if let reference = link.profile {
+            let (profile, resolution) = profiles.catalog.resolve(reference)
+            switch resolution {
+            case .found:
+                selection = .profile(profile?.id ?? "")
+            case .notFound:
+                deepLinkNotice = "No settings profile called “\(reference)” on this device."
+                return
+            case .ambiguous:
+                deepLinkNotice = "More than one settings profile is called “\(reference)”. "
+                    + "Rename one, or link to it by its id."
+                return
+            }
+        }
         switch link.resolveHost(in: store.hosts) {
         case .known(let host):
             guard !link.pinConflict(with: host) else {
@@ -755,7 +774,7 @@ struct ContentView: View {
                 deepLinkNotice = "Already streaming \(current). End that session first."
                 return
             }
-            libraryTarget = host
+            libraryTarget = LibraryTarget(host: host, profile: selection)
         case .unknown(let address, _, let name, _):
             deepLinkNotice = "\(name ?? address) isn't saved on this device yet. "
                 + "Add it with the + button first — a library can only be browsed on a saved host."
@@ -833,9 +852,9 @@ struct ContentView: View {
                     PairSheet(host: host) { fingerprint in handlePaired(host, fingerprint: fingerprint) }
                         .onExitCommand { pairingTarget = nil }
                 }
-                .fullScreenCover(item: $libraryTarget) { host in
+                .fullScreenCover(item: $libraryTarget) { shelf in
                     NavigationStack {
-                        LibraryView(store: store, host: host, onLaunch: { launchTitle(host, $0) })
+                        LibraryView(store: store, target: shelf, onLaunch: { launchTitle(shelf, $0) })
                     }
                     .onExitCommand { libraryTarget = nil }
                 }
@@ -1234,6 +1253,10 @@ struct ContentView: View {
                 setting: PunktfunkConnection.GamepadType(
                     rawValue: UInt32(clamping: effective.gamepadType)) ?? .auto),
             launchID: launchID,
+            // Where a game exit returns to, when this connect launched a title: the shelf that
+            // title was picked on — the host's own, or the pinned card whose profile this connect
+            // is using. Ignored by the model unless there is a launchID.
+            shelf: LibraryTarget(host: host, profile: profile),
             allowTofu: allowTofu,
             requestAccess: requestAccess,
             onUnreachable: onUnreachable)
@@ -1289,9 +1312,13 @@ struct ContentView: View {
 
     /// Picked a title in the (experimental) library: dismiss the browser and start a session that
     /// asks the host to launch it.
-    private func launchTitle(_ host: StoredHost, _ id: String) {
+    /// A title picked on a library shelf: dial its host, booting straight into that title — with
+    /// the shelf's profile. A pinned card's shelf carries its card's profile as the one-off, so a
+    /// launch made there streams with the profile the card promises; the host's own shelf carries
+    /// `.inherit` and the binding decides, exactly as a plain card tap does.
+    private func launchTitle(_ shelf: LibraryTarget, _ id: String) {
         libraryTarget = nil
-        connect(host, launchID: id)
+        connect(shelf.host, launchID: id, profile: shelf.profile)
     }
 
     /// Tap a discovered host: save it (so the session has a stored identity and the trust pin

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadHomeView.swift

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
     @ObservedObject var store: HostStore
     @ObservedObject var model: SessionModel
     @ObservedObject var discovery: HostDiscovery
-    @Binding var libraryTarget: StoredHost?
+    @Binding var libraryTarget: LibraryTarget?
     /// The host awaiting a PIN ceremony, if any. Owned by ContentView (a connect attempt sets it,
     /// as does the trust card's "Pair with PIN instead"), presented here as a shell screen —
     /// PairSheet's `Form` is unreachable with a controller on iOS/macOS, which made pairing the
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
     let connectDiscovered: (DiscoveredHost) -> Void
     /// Launch a library title on a host — the in-place library layer's activate path (iOS; the
     /// cover/sheet presentations wire ContentView's `launchTitle` into LibraryView themselves).
-    let launchTitle: (StoredHost, String) -> Void
+    let launchTitle: (LibraryTarget, String) -> Void
     /// A console prompt (GamepadPromptView) is up over the home — it polls the same controller, so
     /// this screen must stand down for as long as it is. Same handoff contract as the connect
     /// takeover and the shell's own layers; without it the carousel keeps scrolling underneath the
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
         if let host = pairingTarget { return .pair(host) }
         if showSettings { return .settings }
         if showAddHost { return .addHost }
-        if let host = libraryTarget { return .library(host) }
+        if let shelf = libraryTarget { return .library(shelf) }
         return nil
     }
 
@@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
                     onPaired: { onPaired(host, $0) },
                     close: { if !transitioning { pairingTarget = nil } },
                     controllerActive: active)
-            case .library(let host):
+            case .library(let shelf):
                 GamepadLibraryScreen(
-                    store: store, host: host,
+                    store: store, target: shelf,
-                    onLaunch: { launchTitle(host, $0) },
+                    onLaunch: { launchTitle(shelf, $0) },
                     close: { if !transitioning { libraryTarget = nil } },
                     controllerActive: active)
             }
@@ -501,9 +501,10 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
                     isPaired: host.pinnedSHA256 != nil,
                     isConnecting: connecting,
                     filled: true,
-                    // A pinned card is a shortcut, not a second host — Y (library) stays on the
+                    // A pinned card reaches the library too, and gets its OWN shelf: browsing is
-                    // host's own tile, where the host-level actions live.
+                    // this card's connect with a title picked first, not a host-level action like
-                    hasLibrary: profile == nil,
+                    // wake or forget.
+                    hasLibrary: true,
                     osChain: host.osChain,
                     canWake: autoWakeEnabled && PunktfunkConnection.wakeOnLANAvailable
                         && !online && !host.wakeMacs.isEmpty,
@@ -539,12 +540,14 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
     }
 
     /// Only saved hosts have a library — matches the touch grid, where "Browse Library…" is a
-    /// `HostCardView`-only action never offered on `DiscoveredCardView`.
+    /// `HostCardView`-only action never offered on `DiscoveredCardView`. A pinned card opens its
+    /// own shelf: the selection already names which card Y was pressed on, and that card's profile
+    /// is what its launches run with.
     private func openLibraryForSelected() {
-        guard libraryEnabled, case .saved(let id, let profile) = selection, profile == nil,
+        guard libraryEnabled, case .saved(let id, let profileID) = selection,
               let host = store.hosts.first(where: { $0.id == id })
         else { return }
-        libraryTarget = host
+        libraryTarget = LibraryTarget(host: host, profile: ProfileSelection(profileID: profileID))
     }
 }
 

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadLibraryScreen.swift

@@ -12,24 +12,26 @@ import SwiftUI
 struct GamepadLibraryScreen: View {
     @Environment(\.gamepadInk) private var ink
     @ObservedObject var store: HostStore
-    let host: StoredHost
+    let target: LibraryTarget
     let onLaunch: (String) -> Void
     let close: () -> Void
     var controllerActive = true
 
     /// `.compact` in a landscape phone window — tighter chrome, like every gamepad screen.
     @Environment(\.verticalSizeClass) private var vSizeClass
+    /// Resolves a pinned shelf's profile name for the title.
+    @ObservedObject private var profiles = ProfileStore.shared
 
     private var compact: Bool { vSizeClass == .compact }
 
     var body: some View {
         LibraryView(
-            store: store, host: host, onLaunch: onLaunch,
+            store: store, target: target, onLaunch: onLaunch,
             onClose: close, controllerActive: controllerActive)
             .safeAreaInset(edge: .top, spacing: 0) {
                 // Leading, like every gamepad heading — no close chrome, B is the exit (the
                 // coverflow's, or LibraryView's own back-catcher before the coverflow exists).
-                Text("\(host.displayName) — Library")
+                Text("\(target.title(in: profiles)) — Library")
                     .font(.geist(gamepadTitleSize(compact: compact), .bold, relativeTo: .title))
                     .foregroundStyle(ink.fg)
                     .lineLimit(1)

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadShell.swift

@@ -22,14 +22,16 @@ enum GamepadScreen: Identifiable {
     case settings
     case addHost
     case pair(StoredHost)
-    case library(StoredHost)
+    case library(LibraryTarget)
 
     var id: String {
         switch self {
         case .settings: return "settings"
         case .addHost: return "addHost"
         case .pair(let host): return "pair-\(host.id.uuidString)"
-        case .library(let host): return "library-\(host.id.uuidString)"
+        // Keyed on the SHELF, not the host: a host and each of its pinned cards open different
+        // libraries, and sharing an id would let one stand in for another mid-transition.
+        case .library(let shelf): return "library-\(shelf.id)"
         }
     }
 

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/HomeView.swift

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct HomeView: View {
     @Binding var showAddHost: Bool
     @Binding var pairingTarget: StoredHost?
     @Binding var speedTestTarget: StoredHost?
-    @Binding var libraryTarget: StoredHost?
+    @Binding var libraryTarget: LibraryTarget?
     #if !os(macOS)
     @Binding var showSettings: Bool
     #endif
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ struct HomeView: View {
     let connectDiscovered: (DiscoveredHost) -> Void
     /// Pairing succeeded (tvOS PairSheet route) — pin + connect (ContentView guards staleness).
     let onPaired: (StoredHost, Data) -> Void
-    /// Picked a title in the (experimental) library — start a session that launches it.
+    /// Picked a title in the (experimental) library — start a session that launches it, with the
-    let onLaunchTitle: (StoredHost, String) -> Void
+    /// shelf's profile (a pinned card's own; the host's binding on its primary card).
+    let onLaunchTitle: (LibraryTarget, String) -> Void
     /// Explicit Wake-on-LAN of an offline host — fires the packet and waits for it to come online
     /// (the "Waking…" overlay), without connecting. Routed through ContentView's HostWaker.
     let wake: (StoredHost) -> Void
@@ -154,8 +155,8 @@ struct HomeView: View {
             .navigationDestination(item: $speedTestTarget) { host in
                 SpeedTestSheet(host: host)
             }
-            .navigationDestination(item: $libraryTarget) { host in
+            .navigationDestination(item: $libraryTarget) { shelf in
-                LibraryView(store: store, host: host, onLaunch: { onLaunchTitle(host, $0) })
+                LibraryView(store: store, target: shelf, onLaunch: { onLaunchTitle(shelf, $0) })
             }
             #endif
             #if !os(tvOS)
@@ -263,9 +264,13 @@ struct HomeView: View {
     }
 
     private func hostCard(_ host: StoredHost, pinned: StreamProfile?) -> some View {
-        let onBrowseLibrary: (() -> Void)? = libraryEnabled ? { libraryTarget = host } : nil
         // A pinned card connects with ITS profile; the primary card follows the binding.
         let selection: ProfileSelection = pinned.map { .profile($0.id) } ?? .inherit
+        // …and browsing is that same connect with a title picked first, so a pinned card opens its
+        // OWN shelf: every launch off it carries the card's profile rather than the host's binding.
+        let onBrowseLibrary: (() -> Void)? = libraryEnabled
+            ? { libraryTarget = LibraryTarget(host: host, profile: selection) }
+            : nil
         return HostCardView(
             host: host,
             isOnline: isOnline(host),

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/HostCards.swift

@@ -219,6 +219,13 @@ struct HostCardView: View {
             // the way to remove the shortcut itself. Unpinning touches neither the profile nor
             // the host's default binding.
             connectWithMenu(menu)
+            // Browsing IS a connect-shaped action — it is this card's connect with a title picked
+            // first — so a pinned card offers it and opens its own shelf, whose launches carry the
+            // pinned profile. (Pair / speed test / wake / forget stay on the host's card: those
+            // are about the machine, and a shortcut has no business claiming them.)
+            if let onBrowseLibrary {
+                Button("Browse Library…", action: onBrowseLibrary)
+            }
             if LinkClipboard.isAvailable {
                 Button("Copy Link") { menu.copyLink(pinned.id) }
             }

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/LibraryView.swift

@@ -6,11 +6,53 @@
 import PunktfunkKit
 import SwiftUI
 
+/// Which library shelf is open: a host, and — when it was opened from a PINNED host+profile card
+/// (design/client-settings-profiles.md §5.2a) — that card's profile, which every title launched off
+/// the shelf then runs with, exactly as the card's own tap would.
+///
+/// One value rather than a host plus a profile carried beside it: a host and its pinned cards are
+/// different cards on the grid, so "which library" is not answered by the host alone. That is also
+/// why `id` folds the profile in — a presentation keyed on the host would not re-present when you
+/// move between a host's own shelf and one of its pins.
+struct LibraryTarget: Identifiable, Hashable {
+    let host: StoredHost
+    /// `.inherit` from the host's own card (its binding decides, as it always has); `.profile` from
+    /// a pinned card. `.defaults` never reaches here — nothing opens a library "with the globals".
+    var profile: ProfileSelection = .inherit
+
+    var id: String {
+        switch profile {
+        case .inherit: host.id.uuidString
+        case .defaults: "\(host.id.uuidString)#defaults"
+        case .profile(let id): "\(host.id.uuidString)#\(id)"
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The pinned profile's id, if this shelf belongs to a pinned card.
+    var pinnedProfileID: String? {
+        if case .profile(let id) = profile { return id }
+        return nil
+    }
+
+    /// What the screen calls itself: the host, and the profile when a pinned card opened it — the
+    /// same `host · profile` shape that card wears, so which shelf you are on is on screen rather
+    /// than remembered from the card you pressed. A pin whose profile has since been deleted
+    /// resolves as no profile everywhere else, and reads as the plain host here.
+    @MainActor func title(in catalog: ProfileStore) -> String {
+        guard let id = pinnedProfileID, let profile = catalog.profile(id: id) else {
+            return host.displayName
+        }
+        return "\(host.displayName) \u{b7} \(profile.name)"
+    }
+}
+
 struct LibraryView: View {
     @ObservedObject var store: HostStore
-    let host: StoredHost
+    /// The shelf being browsed — the host, plus the pinned profile when a pinned card opened it.
+    let target: LibraryTarget
     /// Tapping a title starts a session that asks the host to launch it (the library id is passed
-    /// through). `nil` ⇒ browse-only (cards aren't tappable).
+    /// through). `nil` ⇒ browse-only (cards aren't tappable). The PROFILE a launch runs with is the
+    /// caller's to apply: it holds `target` and connects with `target.profile`.
     var onLaunch: ((String) -> Void)? = nil
     /// How the gamepad shell (GamepadLibraryScreen) closes this screen; nil — every sheet/cover
     /// presentation — falls back to the environment dismiss.
@@ -20,6 +62,12 @@ struct LibraryView: View {
     /// default (their being up IS the launcher's gate).
     var controllerActive = true
     @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss
+    /// Resolves a pinned shelf's profile NAME for the title (the target carries only its id).
+    @ObservedObject private var profiles = ProfileStore.shared
+
+    /// The host this shelf belongs to — every fetch, every poster URL and the launch itself address
+    /// it, and a pinned shelf is the same host seen through one of its cards.
+    private var host: StoredHost { target.host }
 
     @State private var games: [GameEntry] = []
     @State private var loading = false
@@ -50,7 +98,7 @@ struct LibraryView: View {
 
     var body: some View {
         content
-            .navigationTitle("\(host.displayName) — Library")
+            .navigationTitle("\(target.title(in: profiles)) — Library")
             #if os(iOS)
             .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
             #endif

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Session/SessionModel.swift

@@ -70,9 +70,14 @@ final class SessionModel: ObservableObject {
     /// session ends depends on where it came FROM: a title launched out of the library belongs back
     /// in that library when its game exits, not on the host-selection screen.
     private var launchedTitleID: String?
-    /// Set when a session ended because its game exited and it began as a library launch: the host
+    /// WHICH library shelf that title was launched from — a host's own, or one of its pinned
-    /// whose library to reopen. The view layer consumes it and sets it back to nil.
+    /// host+profile cards (§5.2a). The host alone would not answer it: a pinned card's shelf
-    @Published var returnToLibrary: StoredHost?
+    /// launches with that card's profile, so returning to the host's default shelf would quietly
+    /// change what the next title streams with.
+    private var launchedShelf: LibraryTarget?
+    /// Set when a session ended because its game exited and it began as a library launch: the
+    /// shelf to reopen. The view layer consumes it and sets it back to nil.
+    @Published var returnToLibrary: LibraryTarget?
     /// The settings THIS session runs on — the globals with its profile overlaid, resolved once at
     /// connect (design/client-settings-profiles.md §4.2). Also mirrored into `SessionSettings` for
     /// the readers that live in PunktfunkKit and can't see this model.
@@ -275,6 +280,9 @@ final class SessionModel: ObservableObject {
     func connect(to host: StoredHost, effective: EffectiveSettings,
                  gamepad: PunktfunkConnection.GamepadType = .auto,
                  launchID: String? = nil,
+                 /// The library shelf `launchID` was picked on, so a game exit can return to it.
+                 /// Only meaningful alongside a `launchID`; nil for a plain desktop connect.
+                 shelf: LibraryTarget? = nil,
                  allowTofu: Bool = false,
                  autoTrust: Bool = false,
                  requestAccess: Bool = false,
@@ -283,6 +291,7 @@ final class SessionModel: ObservableObject {
         phase = .connecting
         activeHost = host
         launchedTitleID = launchID
+        launchedShelf = shelf
         errorMessage = nil
         settings = effective
         statsVerbosity = StatsVerbosity(rawValue: effective.statsVerbosity) ?? .normal
@@ -663,6 +672,7 @@ final class SessionModel: ObservableObject {
         activeHost = nil
         // Read by `sessionEnded` BEFORE it calls us, so clearing here can't rob it of the answer.
         launchedTitleID = nil
+        launchedShelf = nil
         phase = .idle
         fps = 0
         mbps = 0
@@ -692,13 +702,16 @@ final class SessionModel: ObservableObject {
         // a plain desktop session has no library to return to.
         let host = activeHost
         let cameFromLibrary = launchedTitleID != nil
+        // The shelf it came off — falling back to the host's own if a caller launched a title
+        // without naming one, which is what that launch effectively browsed.
+        let shelf = launchedShelf ?? activeHost.map { LibraryTarget(host: $0) }
         disconnect(deliberate: false) // host/network ended it — keep the linger for a reconnect
         switch reason {
         case .gameExited:
             // The player quit their own game. Not a failure, and they are probably after the next
             // title — so no banner, and back to the library it came from.
-            if cameFromLibrary, let host {
+            if cameFromLibrary, host != nil, let shelf {
-                returnToLibrary = host
+                returnToLibrary = shelf
             }
         case .hostEnded, .local:
             // Someone asked for this: an operator "End" on the host, or our own close racing in.

clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkShared/EffectiveSettings.swift

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ public struct EffectiveSettings: Equatable, Sendable {
 /// through to the binding. Collapsing the two would make the menu item that says "Default
 /// settings" silently connect with the host's profile. It is the same distinction the session
 /// binary's `--profile ""` reserves on the desktop clients.
-public enum ProfileSelection: Equatable, Sendable {
+public enum ProfileSelection: Hashable, Sendable {
     /// No pick — the host's default binding applies (a plain click/tap).
     case inherit
     /// Force the global defaults for this one connect, whatever the host is bound to.

clients/linux/src/ui_hosts.rs

@@ -466,6 +466,13 @@ impl relm4::factory::FactoryComponent for HostCard {
                     // offering them here would blur what the card is.
                     let launch = gio::Menu::new();
                     launch.append(Some("Connect"), Some("card.connect"));
+                    // …and the same stream with a title picked first. The library is a way to
+                    // START this card, not a property of the host, so it belongs to a shortcut
+                    // as much as Connect does — and the card's request carries its profile, so
+                    // what launches from that grid is this card's profile, not the binding.
+                    if *library_enabled {
+                        launch.append(Some("Browse library\u{2026}"), Some("card.library"));
+                    }
                     menu.append_section(None, &launch);
 
                     let links = gio::Menu::new();

clients/linux/src/ui_library.rs

@@ -44,6 +44,26 @@ struct State {
     mock: Cell<bool>,
 }
 
+/// What the page calls the host it is browsing. A request that carries a one-off profile
+/// came from a PINNED card (design §5.2a), and every title launched off this grid inherits
+/// it — so the page names it, the same `host · profile` shape the card wears. A plain card
+/// says nothing extra: its binding is the host's own default, not a second thing to read.
+/// A one-off whose profile has since been deleted resolves as no profile everywhere else,
+/// and reads as a plain host here.
+fn page_host_label(req: &ConnectRequest) -> String {
+    let Some(id) = req.profile.as_deref().filter(|id| !id.is_empty()) else {
+        return req.name.clone();
+    };
+    pf_client_core::profiles::ProfilesFile::load()
+        .profiles
+        .into_iter()
+        .find(|p| p.id == id)
+        .map_or_else(
+            || req.name.clone(),
+            |p| format!("{} \u{b7} {}", req.name, p.name),
+        )
+}
+
 /// Open the library page for a saved host and start the fetch. `mgmt_port` comes from
 /// the live mDNS `mgmt` TXT when the host is advertising (the hosts page resolves it).
 pub fn open(
@@ -194,7 +214,7 @@ fn build(
     toolbar.set_content(Some(&stack));
 
     let page = adw::NavigationPage::builder()
-        .title(format!("{} — Library", req.name))
+        .title(format!("{} — Library", page_host_label(&req)))
         .child(&toolbar)
         .build();
 

clients/windows/src/app/hosts.rs

@@ -913,9 +913,13 @@ pub(crate) fn hosts_page(props: &HostsProps, cx: &mut RenderCx) -> Element {
 
             // …then this host's pinned host+profile tiles, in the order they were pinned
             // (design §5.2a). They share the host's live status because they read the same
-            // record, and a pin whose profile is gone simply doesn't render. No menu of their
+            // record, and a pin whose profile is gone simply doesn't render. Their menu is
-            // own: a pinned tile is a shortcut, not a second host, and pin/unpin already live
+            // deliberately short: a pinned tile is a shortcut, not a second host, so it carries
-            // on the primary tile's menu — the one place you decide it.
+            // only what STARTS it (the library — this tile's connect with a title picked first,
+            // which is why the grid it opens launches with the tile's profile), the link that
+            // reproduces it, and the way to remove it. Everything that configures the machine —
+            // pair, speed test, wake, edit, forget, and pinning itself — stays on the primary
+            // tile's menu, the one place you decide it.
             for id in &k.pinned_profiles {
                 let Some((id, name, accent)) = profiles.iter().find(|(pid, ..)| pid == id) else {
                     continue;
@@ -923,6 +927,67 @@ pub(crate) fn hosts_page(props: &HostsProps, cx: &mut RenderCx) -> Element {
                 let (ctx3, ss3, st3) = (ctx.clone(), set_screen.clone(), set_status.clone());
                 let mut pinned_target = pinned_base.clone();
                 pinned_target.profile = Some(id.clone());
+                let pinned_menu = {
+                    let (svc, target) = (props.svc.clone(), pinned_target.clone());
+                    let (fp, pin_id) = (k.fp_hex.clone(), id.clone());
+                    let (hosts_rev, set_hosts_rev) = (props.hosts_rev, props.set_hosts_rev.clone());
+                    let link_host = k.clone();
+                    let link_profile = id.clone();
+                    let unpin_label = format!("{MENU_UNPIN}{name}");
+                    let unpin_item = unpin_label.clone();
+                    button("")
+                        .icon(Symbol::More)
+                        .subtle()
+                        .tooltip("More options")
+                        .automation_name("More options")
+                        .menu_flyout({
+                            let mut items = Vec::new();
+                            // Same gate as the primary tile's: the mgmt API needs the paired
+                            // identity, and the page is behind the experimental toggle.
+                            if library_enabled && k.paired {
+                                items.push(menu_item(MENU_LIBRARY));
+                            }
+                            items.push(menu_item(MENU_COPY_LINK));
+                            items.push(menu_separator());
+                            items.push(menu_item(unpin_label));
+                            items
+                        })
+                        .on_item_clicked(move |item: String| match item.as_str() {
+                            MENU_LIBRARY => {
+                                // The shared target IS what the library page launches through, so
+                                // parking THIS tile's target here is what makes its grid launch
+                                // with the pinned profile.
+                                *svc.ctx.shared.target.lock().unwrap() = target.clone();
+                                super::library::start_fetch(&svc.ctx, &svc.set_library);
+                                svc.set_screen.call(Screen::Library);
+                            }
+                            MENU_COPY_LINK => {
+                                let url = pf_client_core::deeplink::DeepLink::for_host(
+                                    &link_host,
+                                    None,
+                                    Some(link_profile.as_str()),
+                                )
+                                .to_url();
+                                pf_client_core::clipboard::set_text(&url);
+                            }
+                            other if other == unpin_item => {
+                                tracing::info!(pin = %pin_id, host = %fp, on = false, "pin toggle");
+                                let mut known = KnownHosts::load();
+                                if let Some(h) = known.hosts.iter_mut().find(|h| h.fp_hex == fp) {
+                                    h.pinned_profiles.retain(|x| x != &pin_id);
+                                    if let Err(e) = known.save() {
+                                        tracing::warn!(
+                                            error = %format!("{e:#}"), "saving a pin"
+                                        );
+                                    }
+                                }
+                                // Same reason as the primary tile's toggle: nothing the page reads
+                                // as state changed, so the bump is what makes this tile vanish NOW.
+                                set_hosts_rev.call(hosts_rev + 1);
+                            }
+                            _ => {}
+                        })
+                };
                 tiles.push(host_tile(
                     // Its own hover key: two tiles for one host must not light up together.
                     &format!("{}#{id}", k.fp_hex),
@@ -935,7 +1000,7 @@ pub(crate) fn hosts_page(props: &HostsProps, cx: &mut RenderCx) -> Element {
                         (!k.paired).then_some(("Trusted", Pill::Info)),
                         Some((name.as_str(), accent.clone())),
                     ),
-                    None,
+                    Some(pinned_menu),
                     Some(Box::new(move || {
                         if can_wake {
                             initiate_waking(&ctx3, pinned_target.clone(), &ss3, &st3);

crates/pf-console-ui/src/screens.rs

@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ impl Screen {
     pub(crate) fn title(&self, _ctx: &Ctx) -> String {
         match self {
             Screen::Home(_) => "Select a Host".into(),
-            Screen::Library(s) => s.host_name().to_string(),
+            Screen::Library(s) => s.title(),
             Screen::Settings(_) => "Settings".into(),
             Screen::AddHost(s) => s.title(),
             Screen::Pair(s) => format!("Pair with {}", s.host_name()),

crates/pf-console-ui/src/screens/library.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use crate::library::{
     StepResult, BUMP_C, BUMP_K, BUMP_PX, FOCUS_GAP, JUMP, PERSPECTIVE, POSTER_H, POSTER_W,
     RECEDE_DIM, RECEDE_SCALE, ROTATE_DEG, SIDE_SPACING, SPRING_C, SPRING_K, VISIBLE_RANGE,
 };
-use crate::model::{ConsoleCmd, HostRow};
+use crate::model::{ConsoleCmd, HostRow, ProfileChip};
 use crate::pointer::{Pointer, PointerKind};
 use crate::screens::{ConnectIntent, Ctx, Outbox};
 use crate::theme::{accent, fg, Fonts, W};
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ pub(crate) struct LibraryScreen {
     port: u16,
     fp_hex: String,
     mgmt: u16,
+    /// `Some` when this library was opened from a PINNED host+profile card (§5.2a) rather
+    /// than the host's primary tile: every launch off this shelf is that card's connect
+    /// with a title attached, so it carries the same one-off profile the card's plain
+    /// A-press would. `None` = the primary tile, where the host's binding decides.
+    pin: Option<ProfileChip>,
     shared: Option<LibraryShared>,
     // Synced snapshot of the shared model (re-pulled when the generation bumps).
     generation: u64,
@@ -48,6 +53,7 @@ impl LibraryScreen {
             port: host.port,
             fp_hex: host.fp_hex.clone(),
             mgmt: host.mgmt_port,
+            pin: host.pin.clone(),
             shared: None, // adopted from Ctx on the first render (the shell owns it)
             generation: u64::MAX,
             phase: LibraryPhase::Loading,
@@ -60,8 +66,13 @@ impl LibraryScreen {
         }
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn host_name(&self) -> &str {
+    /// The screen's title: the host, and — when this shelf belongs to a pinned card — the
-        &self.host_name
+    /// profile every launch off it will use, in the card's own `host · profile` shape.
+    pub(crate) fn title(&self) -> String {
+        match &self.pin {
+            Some(p) => format!("{} \u{b7} {}", self.host_name, p.name),
+            None => self.host_name.clone(),
+        }
     }
 
     fn fetch_cmd(&self) -> ConsoleCmd {
@@ -123,10 +134,18 @@ impl LibraryScreen {
                         port: self.port,
                         fp_hex: self.fp_hex.clone(),
                         launch: Some(g.id.clone()),
-                        title: g.title.clone(),
+                        // A pinned card's shelf says which profile it is launching with,
+                        // the same way its tile and this screen's title do.
+                        title: match &self.pin {
+                            Some(p) => format!("{} \u{b7} {}", g.title, p.name),
+                            None => g.title.clone(),
+                        },
                         request_access: false,
-                        // Game launches follow the host's default binding.
+                        // A game launch off a PINNED card's shelf is that card's connect
-                        profile: None,
+                        // with a title attached — it carries the card's profile as the
+                        // one-off. Off the primary tile there is none, and the host's
+                        // default binding decides.
+                        profile: self.pin.as_ref().map(|p| p.id.clone()),
                     });
                     Some(MenuPulse::Confirm)
                 }

crates/pf-console-ui/src/shell/tests.rs

@@ -180,6 +180,87 @@ fn finish_motion(s: &mut Shell) {
     s.motion = Motion::None;
 }
 
+/// A pinned host+profile card's library launches with THAT profile (design §5.2a).
+///
+/// The card's plain A-press always carried its profile; Y — which the card offers, being
+/// paired and saved — opened a library screen that knew only the host, so every title
+/// launched off it silently fell back to the host's default binding. The profile a user
+/// pinned is the whole reason they pressed that card.
+#[test]
+fn a_pinned_cards_library_launches_with_its_profile() {
+    let mut rows = hosts();
+    let card = HostRow {
+        key: "aa11\u{0}hdr".into(),
+        pin: Some(crate::model::ProfileChip {
+            id: "hdr".into(),
+            name: "HDR".into(),
+            accent: None,
+        }),
+        ..rows[0].clone()
+    };
+    rows.insert(1, card);
+    let (mut s, console, library) = shell(vec![Screen::Home(HomeScreen::new())]);
+    console.set_hosts(rows);
+    s.sync();
+
+    // Focus the pinned card (it sits right after its host's primary tile), then Y.
+    s.handle_menu(MenuEvent::Move(MenuDir::Right));
+    s.handle_menu(MenuEvent::Secondary);
+    finish_motion(&mut s);
+    match s.stack.last() {
+        Some(Screen::Library(l)) => assert_eq!(
+            l.title(),
+            "Living Room PC \u{b7} HDR",
+            "the shelf names the profile it will launch with"
+        ),
+        _ => panic!("Y on a pinned card opens its library"),
+    }
+
+    library.set_games(vec![crate::library::LibraryGame {
+        id: "steam:570".into(),
+        title: "Dota 2".into(),
+        store: "steam".into(),
+        launcher: false,
+        icon: String::new(),
+    }]);
+    s.handle_menu(MenuEvent::Confirm);
+    match s.take_action() {
+        Some(OverlayAction::Launch {
+            launch, profile, ..
+        }) => {
+            assert_eq!(launch.as_deref(), Some("steam:570"));
+            assert_eq!(
+                profile.as_deref(),
+                Some("hdr"),
+                "the launch carries the pinned card's profile"
+            );
+        }
+        _ => panic!("A on a title raises a launch"),
+    }
+}
+
+/// …and off the host's PRIMARY tile there is no one-off: the host's binding decides,
+/// which is what the resolver sees as `None`.
+#[test]
+fn a_primary_tiles_library_leaves_the_profile_to_the_binding() {
+    let (mut s, _console, library) = shell(vec![Screen::Home(HomeScreen::new())]);
+    s.sync();
+    s.handle_menu(MenuEvent::Secondary); // paired+online host focused first
+    finish_motion(&mut s);
+    library.set_games(vec![crate::library::LibraryGame {
+        id: "steam:570".into(),
+        title: "Dota 2".into(),
+        store: "steam".into(),
+        launcher: false,
+        icon: String::new(),
+    }]);
+    s.handle_menu(MenuEvent::Confirm);
+    assert!(matches!(
+        s.take_action(),
+        Some(OverlayAction::Launch { profile: None, .. })
+    ));
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn wake_gates_input_in_the_same_press() {
     let (mut s, _console, _library) = shell(vec![Screen::Home(HomeScreen::new())]);

crates/pf-vdisplay/src/vdisplay/linux/gamescope.rs

@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ fn write_session_plus_dropin(
         wsi = if wsi_ok {
             String::new()
         } else {
-            "Environment=ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0\n".to_string()
+            wsi_off_unit_lines()
         },
     );
     std::fs::write(&path, body).with_context(|| format!("write drop-in {}", path.display()))?;
@@ -3521,6 +3521,52 @@ fn arm_session_bind(wrapper: &std::path::Path) -> Option<SessionBind> {
     Some(bind)
 }
 
+/// The environment that turns the distro's `VkLayer_FROG_gamescope_wsi` off for a whole session
+/// tree — applied wherever we start one: [`launch_session`]'s transient unit and the box-session
+/// drop-in ([`write_session_plus_dropin`]).
+///
+/// ⭐⭐⭐ **`DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI` is the one that actually works, and it is not the obvious one.**
+/// `gamescope-session-plus` does an unconditional `export ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1` near the top of
+/// the script, before it launches anything — so a `--setenv=ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0` on the unit is
+/// CLOBBERED for the script and every child it spawns: gamescope, Steam, and every game Steam
+/// launches. The Vulkan loader resolves an implicit layer's two manifest knobs in a fixed order
+/// (`loader.c`, `loader_implicit_layer_is_enabled`): `enable_environment` switches the layer on
+/// only when the variable equals exactly `"1"`, and then `disable_environment` is consulted last —
+/// *"has priority over everything else"* — where the mere PRESENCE of the variable, at any value,
+/// forces the layer off. Nothing in the session script mentions `DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI`, so it is
+/// the only one of the two that survives the script.
+///
+/// ⚠️⚠️ What getting this wrong looks like in the field (Nobara 44, 2026-08-11): the layer stayed
+/// on for games while this host's own log said it had been disabled. Neither Steam Big Picture nor
+/// mangoapp is a Vulkan client, so both paint regardless and the session looks perfectly healthy —
+/// right up until a game starts. Then the game runs with sound and input while its swapchain is
+/// dead: a black screen, and not one line of error anywhere.
+///
+/// `ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0` is kept alongside for a layer built without a `disable_environment`
+/// (the loader warns about such a layer but honours its `enable_environment`), and because it is
+/// what an operator reading the unit will look for.
+const WSI_OFF_ENV: [(&str, &str); 2] = [
+    ("DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI", "1"),
+    ("ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI", "0"),
+];
+
+/// [`WSI_OFF_ENV`] as `systemd-run` arguments, for the transient unit.
+fn wsi_off_setenv_args() -> Vec<String> {
+    WSI_OFF_ENV
+        .iter()
+        .map(|(name, value)| format!("--setenv={name}={value}"))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+/// [`WSI_OFF_ENV`] as unit-file lines, for the box-session drop-in. Trailing newline included, so
+/// whatever the body puts after it still parses — same contract as [`SessionBind::unit_lines`].
+fn wsi_off_unit_lines() -> String {
+    WSI_OFF_ENV
+        .iter()
+        .map(|(name, value)| format!("Environment={name}={value}\n"))
+        .collect()
+}
+
 /// Whether the box's `VkLayer_FROG_gamescope_wsi` can be trusted against the gamescope we run.
 ///
 /// The layer ships with the DISTRO's gamescope and speaks its `gamescope_swapchain` protocol; we
@@ -3533,8 +3579,10 @@ fn arm_session_bind(wrapper: &std::path::Path) -> Option<SessionBind> {
 /// byte-identical between those commits, so this is the distro PATCHING gamescope, not a version
 /// bump — which is why the check is "do the version triples differ", not a floor.
 ///
-/// `ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0` is gamescope's own opt-out and costs only the layer's extras
+/// Disabling it costs only the layer's extras (XWayland bypass, present-mode control, client HDR
-/// (present-mode control, client HDR metadata) — far cheaper than a client that cannot start.
+/// metadata) — far cheaper than a client that cannot start.
+///
+/// ⚠️ **`ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0` is NOT enough on its own**, which is what [`WSI_OFF_ENV`] is for.
 fn wsi_layer_matches_our_gamescope() -> bool {
     let ours = discovery::gamescope_version_of(std::path::Path::new(gamescope_bin()));
     let distro = discovery::gamescope_version_of(std::path::Path::new(DISTRO_GAMESCOPE_PATH));
@@ -3589,14 +3637,17 @@ fn launch_session(client: &str, unit_name: &str, mode: Mode, hdr: bool) -> Resul
     // an armed bind is the one thing here that can stop the session coming up at all.
     let mut bind = arm_session_bind(&wrapper);
     // The distro's Vulkan WSI layer speaks the distro gamescope's protocol; ours may differ, and a
-    // mismatch kills every Vulkan client (Steam included) with no error but a black screen.
+    // mismatch kills every Vulkan client with no error but a black screen. Steam Big Picture is not
+    // one of them, so the casualty is the GAMES — see [`WSI_OFF_ENV`] for why both variables go.
     let wsi_ok = wsi_layer_matches_our_gamescope();
     if !wsi_ok {
         tracing::warn!(
             "gamescope: this box's VkLayer_FROG_gamescope_wsi was built for a different gamescope \
-             than the one we run — disabling it for this session (ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0). Left \
+             than the one we run — disabling it for this session (DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1, which \
-             enabled it rejects the client's swapchain_feedback and every Vulkan client dies, \
+             the session script cannot clobber the way it clobbers ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI). Left \
-             which shows up as a black screen with no other symptom."
+             enabled it rejects the client's swapchain_feedback and every Vulkan client dies; \
+             Steam's own UI is not one, so what you see is a game that runs with sound and input \
+             on a black screen, with no other symptom."
         );
     }
     let start_unit = |bind: Option<&SessionBind>| -> Result<()> {
@@ -3606,7 +3657,9 @@ fn launch_session(client: &str, unit_name: &str, mode: Mode, hdr: bool) -> Resul
             cmd.arg(arg);
         }
         if !wsi_ok {
-            cmd.arg("--setenv=ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=0");
+            for arg in wsi_off_setenv_args() {
+                cmd.arg(arg);
+            }
         }
         let status = cmd
             // Same headless-must-not-attach rule as [`spawn`]: the transient unit inherits the
@@ -4043,9 +4096,9 @@ mod tests {
         display_manager_unit_under, dm_plan, dm_survives_masked_unit, game_hz, hdr_args,
         is_steam_launch, mask_unit, missing_flags, mode_mismatch, nested_wrapper_script, plan_bind,
         release_autologin_mask, script_hardcodes_gamescope, sentinel_advanced,
-        shape_dedicated_command, switch_ends_mask_window, unmask_unit, xwayland_refusal_marker,
+        shape_dedicated_command, switch_ends_mask_window, unmask_unit, wsi_off_setenv_args,
-        BindOff, BindPlan, DmHelperError, SessionBind, AUTOLOGIN_MASKED, DISTRO_GAMESCOPE_PATH,
+        wsi_off_unit_lines, xwayland_refusal_marker, BindOff, BindPlan, DmHelperError, SessionBind,
-        STOPPED_AUTOLOGIN, X11_SOCKET_DIR,
+        AUTOLOGIN_MASKED, DISTRO_GAMESCOPE_PATH, STOPPED_AUTOLOGIN, WSI_OFF_ENV, X11_SOCKET_DIR,
     };
 
     /// The HDR spawn flags are what make a nested game render HDR at all — and their absence is
@@ -4706,4 +4759,33 @@ mod tests {
             None
         );
     }
+
+    /// `gamescope-session-plus` runs `export ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1` before it launches anything,
+    /// so that variable alone cannot turn the layer off for Steam or for the games Steam launches
+    /// — only `DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI`, which the script never mentions and which the Vulkan loader
+    /// treats as an unconditional force-off, survives. Dropping it would restore the field bug
+    /// (a game with sound and input on a black screen) while the host's log still claimed the
+    /// layer was disabled, which is what made it so expensive to find. See [`WSI_OFF_ENV`].
+    #[test]
+    fn the_wsi_opt_out_carries_the_variable_the_session_script_cannot_clobber() {
+        assert!(
+            WSI_OFF_ENV.contains(&("DISABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI", "1")),
+            "the clobber-proof variable is the whole point of the opt-out"
+        );
+
+        // Both spellings reach both launch paths, and neither may lose the other.
+        let args = wsi_off_setenv_args();
+        let lines = wsi_off_unit_lines();
+        for (name, value) in WSI_OFF_ENV {
+            assert!(args.contains(&format!("--setenv={name}={value}")), "{name}");
+            assert!(
+                lines.contains(&format!("Environment={name}={value}\n")),
+                "{name}"
+            );
+        }
+
+        // Trailing newline: the drop-in body appends nothing after this block today, but the bind
+        // lines above it rely on the same contract and the order has changed before.
+        assert!(lines.ends_with('\n'));
+    }
 }