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punktfunk/clients/session
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 983ff8e78d fix(session/console): a profile must not advertise a cursor channel the presenter isn't drawing
Found reviewing the P0 wiring. The console builds its window and input models ONCE, from
the global defaults, and they live across every launch — but each launch now re-resolves
the host's profile. So a profile that sets `mouse_mode: desktop` on a host, while the
global stays `capture`, made the session advertise `CLIENT_CAP_CURSOR` ("this client
draws the host cursor itself") to a presenter latched in capture mode, which draws no
cursor: the host stops compositing the pointer and the stream has no visible cursor at
all — the exact failure the capability's own doc comment warns about.

The advertisement now follows the LATCHED mouse model, which is the one that is actually
true of the presenter. Everything the host is told about the stream itself — mode,
bitrate, codec, audio, pad — keeps honoring the binding, and the comment says which
fields are latched and why, so the console's presentation-tier gap is documented rather
than rediscovered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 20:46:29 +02:00
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punktfunk-session

The Vulkan session binary: one stream per invocation in an SDL3 window — no UI toolkit, no widgets, terminal stats. The power-user / gamescope stream client, and the stage-2 presenter of the Linux client re-architecture (punktfunk-planning: linux-client-rearchitecture.md).

punktfunk-session --connect host[:port] [--fp HEX] [--launch id] [--fullscreen] [--stats]
punktfunk-session --browse host[:port] [--mgmt PORT] [--fullscreen]
punktfunk-session --pair <PIN> --connect host[:port] [--name LABEL]

--browse opens the console game library (the Skia coverflow over the animated aurora) instead of connecting: A launches the focused title as a stream in the same window, session end returns to the library, B quits (Gaming Mode returns). Paired hosts only — pairing is the desktop client / Decky plugin's job. PUNKTFUNK_FAKE_LIBRARY=<file.json> feeds canned entries with no host (portrait paths starting with / load from disk).

Reads the same identity / known-hosts / settings stores as the desktop client (punktfunk-client), so enrolling on either side makes the other work; this binary never connects to a host it has no pinned fingerprint for (--fp HEX overrides the store).

--pair <PIN> --connect host[:port] runs the SPAKE2 ceremony with no window and no toolkit, prints paired <addr>:<port> fp=<hex>, and exits — the route for a machine that has only SSH (an embedded/kiosk client, an image being provisioned). --name sets the label the host files this client under, defaulting to the hostname. It is in the --no-default-features build too: enrolling must never be the reason a minimal image has to pull in Skia.

Stdout is the machine interface: {"ready":true} after the first presented frame, stats: … once per second while the overlay tier isn't Off (always the full detailed text, whatever the OSD shows; --stats forces the overlay on), one {"error"|"ended": …} JSON line on the way out. Logs go to stderr. Exit codes: 0 clean end, 2 connect failed, 3 trust rejected / pairing required, 4 presenter init failed.

In-stream keys match the desktop client: click captures input (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases), Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D disconnects, F11 toggles fullscreen; the controller escape chord (L1+R1+Start+Select, hold to disconnect) works the same.

The default build carries the Skia console UI (ui feature): the stats OSD and capture hint render in-window. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S cycles the OSD tier live — Off → Compact (one line: fps · latency · Mb/s) → Normal (mode + end-to-end percentiles) → Detailed (decoder path + per-stage latency equation); any tier but Off also emits the stdout mirror. --no-default-features is the ~5 MB power-user build — same streaming, stats on stdout only, no Skia anywhere in the dependency tree.

Decode follows the Settings preference (auto: Vulkan Video → VAAPI → software on Linux, Vulkan Video → D3D11VA → software on Windows): FFmpeg's Vulkan Video decoder runs on the presenter's own device where the stack supports it (every vendor, zero copy); VAAPI dmabufs import per-plane elsewhere (D3D11VA textures on Windows); software is the universal fallback. 10-bit Main10 and HDR10 are advertised (VIDEO_CAP_10BIT|HDR): P010 decodes through all three paths, and PQ streams present on an HDR10/ST.2084 swapchain when the desktop offers one (KDE HDR, gamescope) or tone-map in-shader to SDR when it doesn't (PUNKTFUNK_TONEMAP_PEAK tunes the rolloff, default ≈1000 nits). The host still gates the upgrade behind its PUNKTFUNK_10BIT policy.

Debug/bisect knobs: PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=vulkan|vaapi|d3d11va|software, PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_MODE= mailbox|immediate (default FIFO), PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> (multi-GPU), and PUNKTFUNK_HW_FAULT=import (fault every VAAPI dmabuf import — proves the three-strike demotion to software on healthy hardware).