A replaced buffer went straight back to a game with no frame limit, so a
MAILBOX/IMMEDIATE swapchain drew frames that were never shown; it now
comes back once per refresh as in WinNative. gamescope's -r and the
compositor read the rate of the mode the activity asked for rather than
the one the panel was still in, and the zero-copy layer votes it.
Sustained performance mode, which caps clocks on most power HALs, and
the ADPF session, which reported frame intervals as work, are gone.
* fix: give the QAM chord a Guide lead that stretches with slow frames so A is not taken as a press
* fix: start the QAM Guide lead at 80 ms and stretch it only when frames are slow
* fix: set the QAM Guide lead minimum to 80 ms
* fix: use Android's 300 ms double-tap window for Back so the single-press action comes sooner
* fix: keep the 500 ms Back double-press window
* feat: pair wireless debugging from a notification for the child-process gate
* fix: pair over loopback, handle Android 12 and 14 child-process routes, use D logo for notifications
* fix: read the adb tls port directly before falling back to mdns
* fix: end pairing on the same notification so progress never lingers
* Add ownership-aware Steam game folder imports
* Fix Steam title lookup and installed game manifests
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0.2.0 hardcodes the proot utsname nodename to "DroidDeck". Steam sends
it as the machine name, so an install updated from an earlier build
(which reported Android's "localhost") shows up in Steam under a new
name, with the same machine-id and login. /etc/hostname cannot fix it
from inside: proot's -k override wins.
Add a "Host name" field (Performance > Session identity), stored in
SessionPrefs and passed to guestUtsname(). Only a valid RFC 1123 label
is saved; blank or invalid falls back to the old default, "DroidDeck",
so nothing changes for anyone who leaves it alone. The value is also
listed in device.txt.
The desktop forced a software cursor (WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1) because
labwc's cursor never showed when handed to the app's compositor. With a
software cursor wlroots never scans out: every frame of a full-screen game
was composited by labwc first ("Direct scan-out disabled by software
cursor", 2284 times in one Adreno 825 report).
Why the cursor never showed: wlroots' Wayland backend attaches and commits
its cursor surface before wl_pointer.set_cursor gives it the cursor role,
and sets it again with nothing new committed each time the pointer enters.
The compositor released a role-less surface's buffer on commit, so the
cursor surface had no image by the time it became the cursor.
- A role-less surface's last buffer (cursor-sized only) is held until the
next commit; set_cursor publishes it, and a repeat set_cursor of the
surface already shown unhides its last image.
- A dma-buf cursor is read back after the client's implicit render fence,
as the zero-copy path waits for it.
- The desktop no longer forces a software cursor.
Device-tested on the AYN Thor (Adreno 740, 1920x1080): labwc's own cursor
is drawn, with its shapes (I-beam over a terminal); wlroots logs "Direct
scan-out enabled" for a full-screen glxgears. At the same 60 fps on screen
the GPU is 3.0 % busy against 4.6 % with the software cursor, both at
550 MHz.
KGSL's files and thermal zone names differ between Snapdragon generations.
Each value now takes the first source that exists, in the order GameNative
and the Winlator forks read them: GPU load from gpu_busy_percentage or
devfreq/gpu_load, GPU clock from devfreq/cur_freq or gpuclk, GPU temperature
from KGSL's temp, devfreq/temp or a zone whose sensor name has "gpu". CPU
zones are any whose name has "cpu" and not "gpu" (cpuss-0, cpu0-silver-usr,
apc1-cpu0-usr, ...), matched without regard to case.
Valve's mangoapp reads an Adreno GPU's load, clock and temperatures from the
paths of its own hardware, and the CPU temperature from thermal zones named as
mainline kernels name them. Every Adreno under Android keeps the GPU values in
KGSL's sysfs, readable by the app, and Android kernels name the CPU sensors
cpuss-N / cpu-N-M; the session binds each where mangoapp looks. Thermal zones
are found by sensor name, since their numbering differs per device, and
anything that cannot be found is left alone.
The Quick Access menu's performance overlay toggle and level slider stayed
greyed out: the client exposes SteamClient.System.Perf only with -steamos3,
which SteamOS and Armada pass alongside -steamdeck. Deck mode now launches the
client with both. The session already puts package/beta back to the forced
branch before every start, which keeps -steamos3's own branch switch from
turning into an update loop.
The Deck mode switch moves from the Performance page to the Steam page's
Client settings, next to the client branch it selects by default.
The compositor composed every surface with a blit, which replaces what is under it. gamescope's
Wayland backend hands its overlay and notification planes to the host as full-size translucent
subsurfaces, so a Steam toast, the Quick Access menu or Deck mode's performance overlay blacked
out what was beneath it.
Surfaces whose buffer has alpha and that are not declared opaque now go through an alpha pass
(premultiplied source-over); everything else, and any image the driver cannot sample, keeps the
blit. wl_surface.set_opaque_region is honoured, and only for programs that declare opaque regions
at all, so Wine windows with a meaningless alpha channel are drawn as before. On the SurfaceControl
path a translucent plane is never promoted to the game layer, and the overlay layer is marked
translucent when its plane is.
From WinNative (maxjivi05, feature/wayland-gamescope 69218fc; GPL-3.0), with the SurfaceControl
layer handling added.
Developer options' "Disable child process restrictions" writes only the
feature-flag property persist.sys.fflag.override.settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs,
never the global setting. Android (FeatureFlagUtils.isEnabled) uses the global
setting when it is set and that property otherwise, but the check read only the
global setting, so a device switched off in Developer options stayed flagged as
unset however often Check again was pressed.
The check now follows Android's order, and the Setup card no longer says "On"
for a setting that is unset or unreadable.
* docs(release): draft 0.2.0 beta notes
* docs(release): credit prs and authors in 0.2.0 notes
* docs(release): add #39 and #45 to 0.2.0 notes
* chore: update readme
* fix(ui): cover the whole screen with the capsule wall
The wall was shifted right and then tilted around its own centre, which
left the bottom-left of the home and loading screens bare. Centre it and
size it to the tilted page's bounding box so every corner stays covered.
* feat(ui): flood from the play button into the throbber
Starting a session from a blue button no longer slides the session up
over the front end. The button stretches out on staggered springs until
the page is the ball's blue, the session opens on that same blue with no
window animation, and the blue gathers into the throbber's ball before
the throbber starts. Re-joining a running session, tiles and reduced
motion keep the old rise.
* docs(release): cover everything since 0.1 in the 0.2.0 notes
0.2.0 is the first release from the org, so list what DroidDeck does
as a whole, grouped by area: org pull requests as #N, pull requests
from before the move as The412Banner/DroidDeck#N, and the early work
that predates pull requests by author. CI and build work gets one
short section instead of a line each.
* docs(release): add screenshots and animations to the 0.2.0 notes
Lead with a game running and a few visual highlights, fold the full
list into collapsible sections by area, and shorten every line to the
feature and its credit. Pre-move pull requests read as legacy#N.
* fix(session): give the desktop its own loading hints
The loading screen's hints were written for Steam, so starting the
desktop or an emulator said the first run downloads Steam and that
leaving the app pauses Steam. Desktop and program sessions now rotate
through hints about the desktop instead.
* fix(build): skip incomplete NDKs when picking one locally
An interrupted sdkmanager install leaves a directory like
28.2.13676358.failed under ndk/, which sorted last and was picked
without a toolchain in it. Only consider directories that carry
source.properties.
* docs(release): show launching straight into Big Picture
* docs(release): credit the launch transition to #46
Twice today a session's Xwayland aborted from one thread ("The futex
facility returned an unexpected error code"), proot lost the tracee, and
the process lived on reparented to init: proot's seccomp filter, with no
tracer left, answers ENOSYS, so Xwayland's main loop logged
"WaitForSomething(): poll: Function not implemented" until something killed
it - 9 GB after Dolphin, 13 GB after PPSSPP. --kill-on-exit and the tree
sweep only reach what proot still traces, and the straggler sweep ran only
at the next session's start.
Now a session stop also kills every process of ours whose executable lives
in the Linux runtime, and bannerlator-session keeps only the first
BL_LOG_CAP bytes (256 MB) of session.log, draining the rest so a writer
that filled it is not killed by SIGPIPE.
Cemu never showed a frame on DroidDeck: its Getting Started dialog blocked
every first launch (the folder picker cannot reach ROMs), the session's
controller helper aborted it, and the desktop's Vulkan renderer drew no
cursor. With the Turnip KGSL fix in the driver and the haptic-optional
Cemu in the catalog, this makes the app side complete:
- bannerlator-pad-defaults seeds Cemu's settings.xml once: the Wii U games
folder, Vulkan, and Cubeb audio on the default device for both the TV
and the GamePad speaker at full volume (Wipeout 3 plays through the
GamePad; Cemu's own default is 20 %).
- The Cemu tile launches full screen (-f).
- libfakeinput.so is preloaded into every session process and exported its
static C++ runtime (~7000 symbols); programs unwound through it and
aborted (shadPS4 in pthread_exit, Cemu's controller thread). Link with
--exclude-libs,ALL, and fail the build if the runtime leaks out again.
- On the Vulkan and GLES desktops the pointer worked but no cursor was
drawn: wlroots hands the cursor to the app's compositor, which draws
none. WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 makes labwc composite it itself.
Device-tested on the FIT: Super Mario 3D World in-game at 35-37 fps with
sound, Deus Ex HR DC and Wipeout 3 launch with sound; RPCS3, Dolphin and a
Steam session (FlatOut) unchanged on the same driver.
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