vulkan is the default desktop renderer (settings list it first). When labwc
cannot start on a GPU renderer the desktop falls back to pixman as before, and
now records the renderer with the patched wlroots and Linux driver it failed
on, so later desktops go straight to pixman instead of waiting 20 s each time;
an app update, a different driver, or choosing a renderer again in the settings
(which deletes the record) retries.
bannerlator-pad-defaults now covers DuckStation, PCSX2, Dolphin (GameCube and
Wii), Cemu, melonDS, PPSSPP and RetroArch as well as RPCS3, from each project's
source: files an emulator would otherwise fill with keyboard-only defaults are
seeded when missing (Dolphin, Cemu, PPSSPP, RPCS3), or given SDL bindings in the
config the emulator wrote itself when nothing binds a controller yet
(DuckStation, PCSX2 with its SettingsVersion, melonDS). RetroArch gets an Xbox
360 profile for its sdl2 driver and is moved off udev, which finds no pads in the
runtime. The desktop re-runs it every 30 s, so an emulator's first config is
covered for its next start.
The PC keyboard takes 47% of the screen height, header included.
- The pad keeps Steam Input's virtual-gamepad identity only in Steam sessions.
SDL ignores a Steam virtual gamepad unless run under Steam, so on the desktop
and from the rail every SDL emulator saw no controller at all; there it is a
plain Xbox 360 pad now, which SDL and evdev map by themselves.
- bannerlator-pad-defaults writes Player 1 on the controller for emulators that
have no profile yet (RPCS3 first: without one it takes the keyboard). Run at
desktop start and before a program from the rail; never overwrites.
- The desktop and everything started from it, and a program from the rail, run
on the game cores when chosen, else every core but the slowest cluster
(program_cores); BL_PIN_CORES=0 turns it off. Game cores reach every mode.
The vulkan desktop sat on the loading screen: labwc connected and never opened
its window, and it did not exit, so the exit-based fallback never fired. The
launcher now asks labwc's socket for an answer (wayland-info, 3 s) for up to
20 s, then stops it and starts the desktop on pixman. labwc runs with -d on
vulkan/gles2 so desktop.log shows where it stopped.
droiddeck-gpu runs a program in a gamescope of its own on the app's compositor
(wayland-0), full screen over the desktop - the path the rail's play chips use,
where Vulkan works. droiddeck-desktop-gpu gives every Game/Emulator menu entry a
per-user copy through it (auto: while the desktop is on pixman), keeping 'Run in
a desktop window' as an action.
droiddeck-desktop loads /usr/local/lib/droiddeck-wlroots for the vulkan/gles2
renderers and falls back to pixman when labwc stops at start. The build stages
the wlroots release named by tools/wlroots/release.env, once published.
App name, app ID and code package: DroidDeck, com.droiddeck.launcher
(sources moved to com/droiddeck/launcher, the 68 JNI functions renamed
with them). The new app ID installs beside SteamDeck rather than over it.
Everywhere the name was the app's own: the sidebar title, the session
report, share zips, the shell title, wake-lock and log tags, User-Agents,
the Compose theme, the Download folder and switch files (droiddeck-env,
-osc, -driver, -tu-debug, -no-pad, -pad-log, -no-hud, -wlr-renderer; the
old names are not read), and inside the runtime (droiddeck-desktop,
Firefox's droiddeck.js, the shortcuts tag, the rumble socket, debug and
cache paths). Build scripts, CI artifact (droiddeck-apk), CMake project,
README and the progress log follow.
Kept on purpose: Valve's Steam Deck (the -steamdeck flag,
steamdeck_publicbeta/stable, 'Steam Deck mode', the steamos.cloud
package URLs) and names inside the hosted desktop package (steamdeck.png,
steamdeck-steam, steamdeck-bigpicture). 'Desktop installed' now tests for
labwc instead of the launcher the app stages itself. A committed
__pycache__ .pyc is removed.
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