#!/usr/bin/env bash # Headless KDE Plasma session for the punktfunk host (no KMS scanout → kwin --virtual). # # Brings up the full desktop, not just the compositor, and waits for it to be *actually # ready* before starting the portals/plasma — no blind `sleep`. A bare session is missing # pieces a full Plasma login would start, so this also: exports the Xwayland DISPLAY (X11 apps # like Steam need it), starts the polkit authentication agent (Discover/PackageKit need it to # authorize installs), and supervises plasmashell (it draws wallpaper + panels; a crash must # not leave the desktop gone). The env matters: without XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma- the launcher # resolves ${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}applications.menu → "applications.menu", which doesn't exist on KDE # installs (it ships plasma-applications.menu) — plasmashell runs fine but the menu is EMPTY. # # bash scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh [WxH] # default 1920x1080 # # Then in another shell: # WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-kde XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE PUNKTFUNK_ZEROCOPY=1 \ # punktfunk-host m3-host --source virtual --seconds 14400 set -euo pipefail RES="${1:-1920x1080}" W="${RES%x*}" H="${RES#*x}" export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/run/user/$(id -u)}" export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="${DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS:-unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus}" export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma- export KDE_FULL_SESSION=true export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=6 export DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-kde export KWIN_WAYLAND_NO_PERMISSION_CHECKS=1 # The probe binary (gates readiness on KWin actually exposing zkde_screencast — not merely # the socket existing). Prefer a source-tree build (dev box), then a packaged install on PATH # (the RPM/.deb put it at /usr/bin — there is no $ROOT/target there, and the old cargo-run # fallback has no Cargo.toml either, so without this the probe never succeeds and the session # restart-loops), then `cargo run` as a last resort. ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)" if [[ -x "$ROOT/target/release/punktfunk-host" ]]; then PROBE=("$ROOT/target/release/punktfunk-host" probe-compositor) elif [[ -x "$ROOT/target/debug/punktfunk-host" ]]; then PROBE=("$ROOT/target/debug/punktfunk-host" probe-compositor) elif command -v punktfunk-host >/dev/null 2>&1; then PROBE=(punktfunk-host probe-compositor) else PROBE=(cargo run -q --manifest-path "$ROOT/Cargo.toml" -p punktfunk-host -- probe-compositor) fi # kwin to its own log (so its EGL/GPU-init errors are captured, not lost to the terminal). KWIN_LOG="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/punktfunk-kwin.log" kwin_wayland --virtual --width "$W" --height "$H" --no-lockscreen \ --socket "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" >"$KWIN_LOG" 2>&1 & KWIN_PID=$! # Active readiness wait: poll until KWin is up AND advertises the zkde_screencast global # (what the virtual-output backend needs), or fail fast with a useful message. kwin can also # exit immediately if EGL/GPU init fails — catch that. echo "waiting for KWin ($RES) to become ready…" DEADLINE=$(( SECONDS + 30 )) until "${PROBE[@]}" >/dev/null 2>&1; do if ! kill -0 "$KWIN_PID" 2>/dev/null; then echo "ERROR: kwin_wayland exited during startup — see $KWIN_LOG:" >&2 tail -n 20 "$KWIN_LOG" >&2 || true exit 1 fi if (( SECONDS >= DEADLINE )); then echo "ERROR: KWin did not become ready within 30s. Last probe:" >&2 "${PROBE[@]}" >&2 || true exit 1 fi sleep 0.5 done echo "KWin ready." # Detect the Xwayland display KWin started and export it. Without DISPLAY, X11 apps launched in # this session (Steam, many games/launchers) fail with "can't open display" even though Xwayland # is running — KWin sets DISPLAY only for its own children, not for apps launched via the # plasma menu / D-Bus activation. KWin brings Xwayland up a moment after itself; poll for it. DISPLAY_NUM="" for _ in $(seq 1 20); do # `|| true`: under `set -euo pipefail`, pgrep/grep exit non-zero when Xwayland isn't up yet # (common a few seconds into a systemd-launched boot), which would abort the WHOLE script — # killing KWin — on the first iteration instead of retrying. Tolerate it so the loop polls, # and so a session with no Xwayland at all still proceeds (DISPLAY just stays unset → warn). d=$(pgrep -a Xwayland 2>/dev/null | grep -oE ' :[0-9]+' | tr -d ' :' | head -1 || true) if [[ -n "$d" && -S "/tmp/.X11-unix/X$d" ]]; then DISPLAY_NUM="$d"; break; fi sleep 0.25 done if [[ -n "$DISPLAY_NUM" ]]; then export DISPLAY=":$DISPLAY_NUM" echo "Xwayland on $DISPLAY" else echo "WARN: no Xwayland display detected — X11 apps (Steam) won't open a display" >&2 fi # Only NOW restart the portals, and against the correct env: the xdg-desktop-portal chain # binds the compositor that existed when it started, so a stale portal points at a dead # socket and RemoteDesktop/EIS (input injection) times out. Import the session env into the # systemd/D-Bus activation environment FIRST (the missing piece — the Sway script does this; # without it the restarted portal can inherit an empty WAYLAND_DISPLAY) — including DISPLAY so # D-Bus-activated X11 apps inherit it — then restart. systemctl --user import-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ${DISPLAY:+DISPLAY} 2>/dev/null || true dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ${DISPLAY:+DISPLAY} 2>/dev/null || true # --no-block: queue the restart and return immediately. A synchronous try-restart of the # portal chain blocks bring-up ~30s (xdg-desktop-portal is Type=dbus and waits for its bus # name); the portal only needs to be ready before the FIRST client streams (seconds later, # user-driven), not before plasmashell starts. systemctl --user --no-block try-restart plasma-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service xdg-desktop-portal.service 2>/dev/null || true # Polkit authentication agent: without it, Discover / PackageKit can't get authorization to # install packages (polkitd is the policy engine; the *agent* is the GUI prompt). A full Plasma # session starts it; our bare session must do it explicitly. Force the Qt Wayland platform — it # exits immediately if it can't pick one. comm is truncated to 15 chars ("polkit-kde-auth"). POLKIT_AGENT=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 if [[ -x "$POLKIT_AGENT" ]] && ! pgrep -x polkit-kde-auth >/dev/null; then QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland setsid "$POLKIT_AGENT" \ >"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/punktfunk-polkit-agent.log" 2>&1 & fi kbuildsycoca6 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # rebuild the menu cache under the correct env # Supervise plasmashell: it draws the desktop (wallpaper + panels). It can crash (a transient # GPU/QML hiccup), and a single unsupervised `plasmashell &` then leaves the streamed session # with only app windows — no desktop, no wallpaper, no launcher. Restart it for as long as KWin # lives, so the desktop self-heals. ( while kill -0 "$KWIN_PID" 2>/dev/null; do plasmashell echo "plasmashell exited — restarting in 2s" >&2 sleep 2 done ) & echo "headless KDE up on $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ($RES), kwin pid $KWIN_PID (log: $KWIN_LOG)" wait "$KWIN_PID"