An opt-in second Steam client (Steam settings, Steam client: x86-64): Valve's
x86-64 Linux client, unchanged, runs under FEX in its own home with its own
game library and the same sign-in. Linux builds run directly, so titles such
as Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life use their Linux versions; Windows games use
DroidDeck-Proton as on arm64. The arm64 client stays the default.
- droiddeck-steam-x64: FEX and the x86-64 rootfs from DroidDeck-Components
(sha256-pinned), client install and sync from Valve's CDN, sign-in shared
with the arm64 client, its web helper on the GPU (ANGLE GL over FEX's GL
thunk, zink, Turnip), Proton wrappers for the arm64 client's tools,
DroidDeck direct for Linux builds, SD-card library (x86-64/ beside the
arm64 one), repair.
- FEX 2610 built by build-fex.yml with thunks and three patches: an openat2
fallback without openat2 (proot), newer-clang thunkgen, MAP_32BIT
exhaustion returning ENOMEM. libblsession resolves RESOLVE_IN_ROOT paths
inside the root.
- Session: x86-64 gating, shortcuts and compatibility tools per client,
logs from the client that ran.
- App: client setting with the FEX version, an x86-64 chip on the Games
header, the active client's library, art, storage, downloads, repair,
Offline Mode, Decky, desktop mode, optional VAC diagnostics; per-client
state for art, the content log, repair and leftovers.
- Strings in every locale.
- Review fixes: the library cache is saved only by the newest scan; an
abandoned session's Steam logs come from the client it recorded; distinct
VAC console names; FEXInterpreter in CPU pinning; clearer VAC hint in
pl, ru, uk, cs and bg.
install() replaces an existing cache entry by calling detach(old), which
destroys the listing when no reader holds it, and then reads old->wd to
decide whether to release the watch. When the old listing has no readers,
that read happens after the free.
Two threads that enumerate the same uncached directory at the same time
reach this path: both build a listing, the first installs an entry with
no readers, and the second replaces it.
Save the watch descriptor before detaching, as drop() already does.
* feat: replace the LXQt desktop with SteamOS-style KDE Plasma
* feat: leaving the KDE desktop logs out through Plasma and returns to gaming mode
* feat: DroidDeck logo wallpaper as the KDE desktop default
* feat: build the KDE wallpaper from the DroidDeck mark artwork
* ci: keep the built desktop package as a short-lived artifact for device testing
* fix: the desktop loading screen no longer promises Steam on the desktop
* docs: the output resize comments name the desktop's KWin
* fix: the desktop package verifies every package's Arch Linux ARM signature and never replaces a published tag
* fix: programs sent to the GPU from the desktop drop its software rendering overrides
* fix: an interrupted desktop install no longer counts as installed
* feat: pin the desktop package to its DroidDeck-Components release instead of the catalog
* fix: keep Steam's directory listings on FUSE libraries
Before it creates, moves or deletes a content file the Steam client lists
the whole destination directory about ten times to match names
case-insensitively. On Android's FUSE storage every listing goes through
the media provider, so reserving space grew quadratically with the number
of files: 33 minutes for Haunted Paws Demo (3,938 files) in a Games folder.
The client's listings under steamapps/ on FUSE are now kept while the
directory's stat is unchanged, for at most five seconds, and patched by
the client's own creates, renames and removals. Other changes fail the
stat check and the directory is read again. BL_NO_DIR_CACHE=1 turns it off.
Haunted Paws Demo into the internal shared Games folder: reserving space
33m08s -> 25-52s, committing 6m15s -> 19-30s, install 39m50s -> 1m12s-1m51s.
Internal storage is unchanged (5s reserve).
* fix: drop stale directory listings on coarse-timestamp volumes
NTFS reports whole-second directory times and a fixed size, so a change
made outside the client's own calls could leave a cached listing stale.
Listings now carry an inotify watch and are dropped on any event the
client's own patched changes don't account for. A forked child stops
caching, since it shares the parent's queue.
Covers rewinddir, telldir and seekdir on cached listings, and directories
opened by the fast-path preload's opendir, which goes through fdopendir.
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