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The button shipped in d839f4c2 opens the user's Documents folder instead of the log
directory on every packaged install. Nothing is wrong with the button — the path is.
The client ships as a full-trust MSIX package, and Windows redirects a packaged app's
%LOCALAPPDATA% writes into its private ...\Packages\<family>\LocalCache\Local\. The log
module creates and appends through that redirection without ever seeing it, so the
literal %LOCALAPPDATA%\punktfunk\logs it hands out is right to WRITE to and names a
directory that never exists on disk. Explorer runs outside the container: it resolves the
literal path, finds nothing, and — instead of failing — silently falls back to Documents.
An unpackaged dev run creates that directory for real, which is why this only ever showed
up in the field.
Two more places handed the same phantom path straight to the user, both added by the same
commit and both wrong in the same way: the "client log file" startup line, and the
failed-spawn banner's "Check <path>" — the one people are told to follow after a session
dies. Anyone who did landed in an empty or absent directory.
So the fix is one resolver, not three call-site patches. `real_dir` canonicalizes the
directory it just created, which resolves through the redirection on a packaged run and
changes nothing on an unpackaged one — no package identity to detect, no LocalCache path
to hand-assemble. `log_dir` stays as the write path and goes private so a future caller
can't reach for the wrong one; `path` now resolves too, which fixes both messages.
`canonicalize` always returns a `\\?\` verbatim path and Explorer refuses those (taking
the same silent Documents fallback), so `strip_verbatim` undoes the prefix — including
the `\\?\UNC\` form a roaming profile on a share resolves to. The button additionally
guards on `is_dir()`: if the resolve ever comes back wrong, the click does nothing rather
than landing the user somewhere misleading again.
punktfunk — Windows client
The native Windows app for streaming a punktfunk host to your PC. A modern WinUI 3 app that discovers hosts on your network, pairs with a PIN, and streams at your display's own resolution and refresh rate — with a hardware-accelerated D3D11 video path and HDR.
It's pure Rust: the UI is WinUI 3 driven through windows-reactor
(a declarative, React-like framework), and it links the shared punktfunk-core directly to speak
the fast punktfunk/1 protocol.
Features
- Hardware decode, GPU present — FFmpeg HEVC with a D3D11VA zero-copy path (decoder and
presenter share one D3D11 device; NV12/P010 textures sampled straight into a
SwapChainPanelcomposition swapchain), with a robust software-decode fallback. - HDR10 — advertise 10-bit/HDR, detect PQ in-band, and flip the swapchain to
R10G10B10A2+ ST.2084 with HDR10 metadata. - Your display's native mode — the host builds a virtual display at exactly your WxH@Hz.
- Audio both ways — WASAPI render + mic capture.
- Full controller support — SDL3 gamepads with rumble, lightbar, and DualSense feedback.
- Your display's native mode, really — "Native display" resolves the actual size + refresh of the monitor the window is on at connect time.
- Find hosts automatically — mDNS discovery lists hosts on your LAN, alongside saved and manual entries. First connect does a one-time SPAKE2 PIN pairing (or TOFU on trusted LANs), then reconnects on a pinned identity. Saved hosts carry per-host actions: a network speed test (probe burst over the real data plane → recommended bitrate, applied in one tap) and forget.
- Polished shell — host cards, settings (resolution / refresh / host compositor / decoder / codec / bitrate / HDR / forwarded controller / gamepad type / system shortcuts / audio channels / mic / stats-overlay level), the tiered stats overlay (Off / Compact / Normal / Detailed — Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S cycles it live in the session window), and the full trust surface. Stream input uses Win32 low-level hooks with Moonlight-style capture: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases the pointer, a click on the stream re-captures it, and system shortcuts (Alt+Tab, Win, …) can act locally or forward to the host.
Builds and ships for both x64 and ARM64 as a signed MSIX.
Get it
Install the signed MSIX from the package registry — see docs.punktfunk.unom.io/docs/install-client. A stock Moonlight client also works over GameStream if you prefer.
Build from source
Windows-only (the crate builds as a stub on other platforms so the workspace stays green). You need
the MSVC toolchain, an FFMPEG_DIR FFmpeg tree, and CMake (SDL3 builds from source). The Windows
App SDK runtime bootstrap is staged next to the exe by windows-reactor-setup from this crate's
own build.rs — no extra environment needed.
cargo build -p punktfunk-client-windows --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
# CLI paths for testing (no window):
punktfunk-client --discover # list hosts on the LAN
punktfunk-client --headless --connect host[:port] [--pin HEX] # connect, count frames, print stats
punktfunk-client --headless --speed-test --connect host[:port] # probe burst → recommended bitrate
CARGO_HOMEmust be an ASCII path — non-ASCII characters break SDL3's MSVC precompiled-header build. Packaging (MSIX manifest, signing) lives inpackaging/.
Layout
Decode/present/input live in the spawned punktfunk-session binary (clients/session), not here —
this crate is the shell that discovers, pairs, and launches it.
src/
main.rs entry point + CLI paths (--discover · --headless · --speed-test)
bin/punktfunk-console.rs the couch/HTPC Start-menu entry (re-execs with --console)
app/ WinUI 3 shell (windows-reactor), one module per screen:
mod (root/router) · hosts · connect · pair · speed · settings ·
library · help · licenses · stream · style (shared cards/pills)
deeplink.rs punktfunk:// activation, single-instance hand-off, shortcut writer
spawn.rs punktfunk-session child process + its stdout event contract
shell_window.rs hide/restore the shell HWND around a session
gpu.rs DXGI adapter enumeration for the GPU picker
trust.rs · discovery.rs persistent identity, TOFU/PIN pairing, mDNS browse
probe.rs · wol.rs speed probe · Wake-on-LAN
logfile.rs log tee to %LOCALAPPDATA%
packaging/ MSIX manifest, signing, pack script
Manual smoke checklist
The windows-reactor pin is a moving target and WinUI regressions rarely show up in cargo check —
walk this after a reactor bump or a change to the render/state architecture:
- Hosts — discovery populates tiles; tile hover fill; "…" menu → Forget and Rename; add-host modal connects; WOL wait screen cancels.
- Settings — every section renders; combos still show their selection after a section switch AND a scope switch (the historic blank-combo reconciler bug); profile create / rename / delete (with confirm); colour swatches repaint; the Overridden marker appears on edit and clears on Reset; GPU combo lists adapters.
- Pair — PIN entry pairs (the typed PIN must reach the Connect click —
use_refmirror path). - Session — connect → session spawns → HUD stats tick; Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases the pointer; shell window restores on exit.
- Shell — speed test completes; library grid loads;
punktfunk://deep link routes (second instance hands off and exits); window icon appears; screen-entrance animations play.
Related
- Documentation — quick start, pairing, troubleshooting
- Project README — the host, the other clients, and how it all fits together