The library-folder picker does open and Steam does create the directory
structure; the library simply never appears in the Storage UI. That rules
out the portal FileChooser for this symptom and points at the
write-and-execute probe Steam runs before recording the folder in
libraryfolders.vdf (ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8450). Document how to
reproduce that probe inside Steam's FHS sandbox with steam-run, and keep
library_folder_add as the route that reports a reason.
The Add a Non-Steam Game dialog is a separate symptom and keeps the
portal explanation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three unrelated desktop-side fixes, all in home/sway.nix.
Sway cannot key an output rule on resolution, so scale 2 on 4K displays
is applied by a user service that runs once at session start and again on
every output event, which is what makes it survive a display being
switched off and on. The scale guard in the jq filter stops the
subscription feeding itself. kanshi still owns mode and position; no
profile here sets a scale, so the two do not fight.
natural_scroll on type:pointer gives mice the same scroll direction as
the touchpads already had.
PCSX2 and Dolphin default to borderless-windowed rather than compositor
fullscreen, so the existing inhibit_idle fullscreen rules never matched
and swaylock engaged mid-game. Inhibit on focus for the emulators
instead. The Steam session is unaffected either way: swayidle is wanted
by graphical-session.target and conditional on WAYLAND_DISPLAY, and the
gamescope session provides neither.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The libretro dolphin core lags upstream on compatibility in the same way
LRPS2 does, so install pkgs.dolphin-emu next to pkgs.pcsx2 and run
GameCube and Wii titles through it. The cores stay for the sake of a
single frontend and a shared save/state layout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Autologin into the gamescope Steam session does not take on the real
hardware; the television lands on ReGreet instead. The config side is
correct -- initial_session is present in the generated greetd.toml and
services.greetd.restart evaluates to false -- so the likely cause is the
session starting and then dying, which greetd answers by falling through
to default_session.
greetd hands a session the VT for its standard streams, so whatever the
session prints on its way down is erased as soon as the greeter repaints.
Run the launcher under systemd-cat so the reason survives in the journal
under the steam-session identifier.
Steam's non-Steam-game Browse dialog and its library-folder picker both
go through the XDG portal FileChooser interface and do not open here
(ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9447, #10415). Add steamtinkerlaunch,
which writes shortcuts.vdf without the dialog, and document
library_folder_add as the equivalent route for the library folder.
Docs also catch up with the host's actual state: hardware-configuration
.nix is a real scan now, standalone pcsx2 is installed, and the untested
claims become the list of open problems.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New x86_64 host for a 4th-gen Core i7 (Haswell) with a GTX 1070 8 GB,
wired to a television and driven with a Bluetooth controller.
Session: greetd gets an initial_session, so the machine autologins into
the gamescope Steam session at boot with no greeter and no keyboard.
Quitting Steam falls back to greetd's default_session (ReGreet), where
the ordinary Sway session is available for keyboard-and-mouse work.
Graphics: the GTX 1070 is Pascal, so it needs driver branch 580
(nvidiaPackages.legacy_580) like the Mac Pro's Quadro P400 -- the
nixpkgs default (production, 595.x) dropped Pascal support.
Games: RetroArch built through retroarch-bare.wrapper with 17 cores
covering NES through PS2, GameCube and Wii; Clone Hero; and Steam with
Proton-GE and protontricks. RetroArch's menu toggle is bound to L3+R3,
without which there is no way to exit a running core on a machine with
no keyboard.
Proton prerequisites beyond what programs.steam already arranges: the
esync file-descriptor hard limit is raised from systemd's default
524288 to 1048576 (soft limit untouched), and Proton-GE is wired in via
extraCompatPackages. vm.max_map_count already defaults high enough in
nixpkgs and needs no override.
Content lives in a shared /srv/games tree created by systemd.tmpfiles,
laid out one directory per system under roms/ using the libretro/ES-DE
naming convention, plus bios/, saves/, states/, a Steam library folder
and Clone Hero's songs. RetroArch is pointed at it declaratively.
hardware-configuration.nix is a placeholder, not a hardware scan: the
machine is not installed yet. It assumes partition labels `nixos` and
`BOOT` and must be replaced with nixos-generate-config output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docs-site build syncs this repo's README.md and docs/ into the site
tree; nothing else is copied. All prose apart from the README therefore lived
outside the sync and never appeared on https://docs.lyrapup.pet/nixfiles/, and
the one page that did publish carried 18 link targets that resolved to nothing.
Moves:
home/README.md -> docs/shell.md
home/KEYBINDINGS.md -> docs/keybindings.md
hosts/<Name>/README.md -> docs/hosts/<name>.md
docs/.pages and docs/hosts/.pages give the awesome-pages plugin an explicit
order; new pages are picked up by the trailing '...' without an edit.
Links are rewritten so a single URL is correct in both Gitea and the published
site: absolute Gitea source URLs for .nix files and directories, relative links
between pages under docs/, and absolute docs.lyrapup.pet URLs from the root
README, which the build republishes at a different depth from the rest of the
tree. In-code comments that pointed at a moved README are updated to the new
path.
The README gains a Documentation section covering the sync contract and the
linking rules, and CLAUDE.md carries the short version so future edits do not
reintroduce unsynced pages or dead links.
Verified by reproducing the docs-site assembly locally against its pinned
toolchain (mkdocs 1.6.1, mkdocs-material 9.7.7, awesome-pages 2.10.1): pages
render at the URLs used above and in the declared order.
