The native arm64 client follows steamdeck_publicbeta, so a Valve beta
regression reaches every user at once. If the repaired beta client is still
started twice without being shown, or the beta manifest carries no arm64
client, droiddeck-steam-install now installs steamdeck_stable, keeps it, and
logs why (listing the manifest's blocks in the second case). The session asks
the installer for the channel, so -clientbeta and package/beta stay in sync.
BL_STEAM_CHANNEL or ~/.config/droiddeck/steam-channel (beta|stable) pins it.
Valve's 2026-10-15 beta moved the x86 client into a Steam Runtime container.
In case the arm64 client follows, its session now exports
STEAM_STEAMRT_RECURSION_GUARD=1 and, only if steamrtarm64 carries pv-runtime
or a steam-runtime-check-requirements probe, starts it through the same
steamrt shim the x86-64 client uses (now droiddeck-steamrt-shim) and logs it.
The hex box sat at the bottom of the picker, so with the keyboard up the dialog
was cut off and the field could not be seen. While the box has focus the dialog
now scrolls to its end, and again whenever the visible height changes, so the
hex box and OK / Cancel stay above the keyboard.
Inner Gamer is a new theme just above Gradient. Its accent walks round the
colour wheel on a Compose infinite transition, so Android's animation clock
drives it and it holds still when animations are off. The hue moves in 3 degree
steps so the app restyles only when the colour visibly changes. Setup shows a
Speed slider (1 to 10) while it is selected. The palette comes from
ThemeColors.palette, so button text stays readable at every hue.
A user's log (#1300) showed "the Xbox helper stopped with exit code 1", but
not why. Before it asks for the Microsoft page the helper can only fail while
opening the credential store or registering the device, and it prints a code
for that (NEXUS_CREDENTIAL_ERROR_V1 keyring-unavailable, device-
authentication, ...). Sign-in runs in its own process, where
StoresState.logLine writes no file, so that line only reached logcat. The
sign-in window now writes the helper's known diagnostics to the stores log
itself, and the credential bridge writes why it refused the helper there too.
Lines are stamped by a shared StoreLogFiles.stamped.
Wine asks for userfaultfd with the i386 syscall number on arm64, so it
never gets one and falls back to mprotect and a SIGSEGV per first write,
which under proot is a ptrace stop each time. libblsession hands it the
real userfaultfd and, where Android refuses the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl, answers
it from /proc/self/pagemap and UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT.
PipeWire's access module checks each client's /proc/<pid>/root for a
Flatpak marker. Where that lookup fails under proot (seen on a nubia
NX809J), PipeWire treats the client as sandboxed and holds it until the
session manager grants permissions, and WirePlumber, itself held, never
does. gamescope then waits forever for its capture stream and never
starts Steam: a black screen until the session is closed.
The session's PipeWire now gives both of its sockets unrestricted access
and WirePlumber keeps those clients at full permissions, so nothing
depends on that lookup.
perf: files in an SD card library resolve through the fast path instead of proot
A library bound at several guest names (droiddeck-sd, bannerlator-sd and
case variants) made every symlink and /proc/self/fd readlink under it fall
back to proot. The fast path now orders its binds the way proot does and
gives each host path the name proot would, and lstat("link/.") follows
the link as the kernel does.
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Sign-in sat on a black "Preparing Microsoft sign-in…" screen while the Xbox
components downloaded and the helper started, then only said "did not
complete" (#1300). The window now names each step (with download progress),
and a failure says which step failed and why. Our own messages are shown as
written; anything else is named by its exception type only. The line also goes
to the stores log, which the shared log zip carries.
The Stores page showed the account's sign-in email. It now shows the Xbox
gamertag, read with `xodus-cli profile` after the library sync on its own
thread (75 s limit: the command allows itself 45 s, plus PRoot start-up), once
per signed-in account. Until it is known the email is shown masked, and only
the store label while credentials are temporarily unreadable. The account key
used for caches and launches is unchanged.
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