Make Steam game mode work on a display-less streaming host and stream it at the client's resolution: * Ship /etc/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam (packaging/bazzite/ gamescope-headless-session, installed by the RPM + Arch PKGBUILD): fall back to gamescope's headless backend when no display is connected, so "Switch to Game Mode" boots offscreen instead of crashing on the missing panel (and 5-striking back to desktop). No-op on display-attached boxes; only sets unset values so the host's per-client mode still wins. * Default Bazzite/SteamOS to ATTACH (PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_ATTACH=1 in host.env): the box owns its session (Desktop<->Game, persistent), the host follows + captures it and never tears it down — so switching is rock-solid and a disconnect leaves the box in its mode (reconnect returns there). * Resize-on-attach (gamescope.rs): on connect, ensure the box's own game-mode session runs at the CLIENT's resolution — reuse it when already matching (fast path, no restart), else reconfigure + restart the box's own autologin gamescope-session-plus@<client> at the client mode (cooperative: no competing unit, so no autologin-respawn fight). Detect the live gamescope's -W/-H via argv[0] in /proc (its /proc/<pid>/exe is unreadable for that process). Validated live on a headless bazzite-deck-nvidia box: game mode boots headless + stable (0 strikes); the host attaches + streams video/audio/EIS input; a 5120x1440 client reuses the matching session and streams at 5120x1440. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
punktfunk-host — RPM (Bazzite / Fedora Atomic) via the Gitea registry
punktfunk-host is published as an RPM to Gitea's RPM package registry in the public unom
org (stable groups bazzite/fedora-44, canary groups bazzite-canary/fedora-44-canary), so
Bazzite / Fedora Atomic hosts layer and update it with rpm-ostree. CI (.gitea/workflows/rpm.yml)
builds and publishes on every push to main (a rolling 0.3.0-0.ciN.<sha> build to the *-canary
groups) and on vX.Y.Z tags (a clean X.Y.Z-1 to the base groups, plus attached to the unified
Gitea Release) — separate repos, so a stable box never jumps to a canary build (see
Release Channels). The baseurl below subscribes to the
bazzite stable group; use bazzite-canary for the latest main builds. The RPM is built in the
Fedora 43 image (ci/fedora-rpm.Dockerfile) so its auto-generated library Requires
(libavcodec.so.NN, …) match Bazzite's sonames; the NVIDIA driver lib (libcuda.so.1) is
excluded — NVENC/EGL come from whatever NVIDIA stack the host runs (a weak Recommends).
This is the same package as the COPR / bootc
paths — same spec (punktfunk.spec) — just self-hosted in Gitea instead of COPR, mirroring the
Debian/apt setup.
Install on a Bazzite host (one-time)
# Add the repo. Packages are GPG-signed (gpgcheck=1, the packages@unom.io key) AND the repo
# metadata is Gitea-signed (repo_gpgcheck=1); gpgkey lists both so dnf/rpm-ostree imports each.
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/punktfunk.repo >/dev/null <<'REPO'
[gitea-unom-bazzite]
name=punktfunk (unom, Bazzite)
baseurl=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/bazzite
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/repository.key
https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/generic/punktfunk-keys/1/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk
REPO
# Layer the host + the web console (pairing/status), then reboot into the new deployment.
# (punktfunk Recommends punktfunk-web; list it explicitly so it's pulled regardless of weak-dep
# settings. The registry carries punktfunk-web because CI builds the spec --with web; COPR can't.)
rpm-ostree install punktfunk punktfunk-web
systemctl reboot
If
rpm-ostreecan't complete the metadata GPG check non-interactively, setrepo_gpgcheck=0(TLS-only trust to the self-hosted registry).
Per-package signing (gpgcheck=1, active)
CI GPG-signs every RPM: packaging/rpm/sign-rpms.sh (run from rpm.yml between build and publish)
signs with the dedicated EdDSA key packages@unom.io (AF245C506F4E4763) and self-verifies
with rpmkeys --checksig before publishing, so an unsigned/bad build never reaches the registry.
The public key is served from the registry (the gpgkey= URL above) and committed at
packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk. (This is a GPG/OpenPGP key — a step-ca/X.509 cert can't
sign RPMs; step-ca is only for registry/console TLS.)
How it was set up (and how to rotate the key):
# 1. Generate a DEDICATED, passphrase-less signing key (separate from the Gitea metadata key).
gpg --batch --gen-key <<EOF
%no-protection
Key-Type: eddsa
Key-Curve: ed25519
Name-Real: punktfunk packages
Name-Email: packages@unom.io
Expire-Date: 0
%commit
EOF
gpg --armor --export-secret-keys packages@unom.io # -> the RPM_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY CI secret
gpg --armor --export packages@unom.io > packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk # public half
# 2. Add the armored PRIVATE key as the RPM_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY Gitea Actions secret. Commit the public
# half and publish it to the registry so the gpgkey= URL resolves:
curl --user "<user>:<write:package-PAT>" --upload-file packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk \
https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/generic/punktfunk-keys/1/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk
Rotating the key means a new generic-registry version (bump punktfunk-keys/1 → /2 and the
gpgkey= URL), since the registry rejects re-uploading an existing file.
After reboot, as the desktop user:
ujust add-user-to-input-group # virtual gamepads need /dev/uinput (re-login).
# Bazzite is atomic — use ujust, NOT `usermod -aG input`.
mkdir -p ~/.config/punktfunk
cp /usr/share/punktfunk/host.env.bazzite ~/.config/punktfunk/host.env # gamescope defaults
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-host
# Web console — enable it and read the auto-generated login password (then open http://<host-ip>:3000):
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-web
journalctl --user -u punktfunk-web-init | sed -n 's/.*password generated: //p'
(See ../bazzite/README.md for the full appliance walkthrough —
udev/group, host.env, the Steam session unit, firewall, verify.)
Updates
rpm-ostree upgrade # pulls the newest punktfunk with the system update
systemctl reboot # rpm-ostree changes apply on reboot
Layered packages are re-resolved against their repos on every rpm-ostree upgrade, so the box
tracks new builds automatically (Bazzite's auto-update timer does this for you). To pin or stop
tracking: rpm-ostree override / rpm-ostree uninstall punktfunk.
Build an RPM locally
PF_VERSION=0.0.1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh # host + client
PF_VERSION=0.0.1 PF_WITH_WEB=1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh # + the noarch punktfunk-web (needs bun on PATH)
# -> dist/punktfunk-0.0.1-1.fcNN.x86_64.rpm (+ punktfunk-web-0.0.1-1.fcNN.noarch.rpm with PF_WITH_WEB=1)
Run it inside the Fedora 43 builder image so the deps resolve and match Bazzite:
docker build -f ci/fedora-rpm.Dockerfile -t punktfunk-fedora-rpm ci
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/src" -w /src punktfunk-fedora-rpm \
bash -lc 'git config --global --add safe.directory /src && PF_VERSION=0.0.1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh'
A plain rpmbuild/COPR build with no pf_version/pf_release defines produces 0.0.1-1.