The pinned 7.1.6 kernel doesn't read the extra EDID block (HDMI Forum
EEODB) where monitors list their fast modes, and does no HDMI 2.1, so HDMI
displays often stay at 60 Hz. The new menu item reads the display's EDID
over DDC, calculates the highest rate that fits HDMI 2.0 at the desktop
resolution (rounded down to ten, plus the hundred below as a safe option),
tests each step live with a confirmation, and makes the confirmed ones
permanent through drm.edid_firmware (Limine, sdboot-manage or GRUB).
Pushes to feat/v2-ui publish the pre-release v2-ui-preview (never latest);
its steamify-app.sh downloads that build (STEAMIFY_RELEASE). The app's
1280x720 layout now stretches to the window's shape, so the bars reach the
edges; re-apply resets when back on the menu.
steamify-app.tar.gz (ui/, steamify.sh, lib/, icon) and its launcher
steamify-app.sh in every release: it installs to ~/.local/share/steamify/app,
installs PySide6 if needed, adds a launcher entry and starts the app.
STEAMIFY_BRANCH=<branch> runs a branch before it's released.
bios_enable split into bios_prepare (download, checksum, fwupd check) and
bios_flash; the terminal flow is unchanged. The app: check, warning 1,
warning 2 (type UPDATE, or hold A/OK for 5 seconds), flash, restart.
ui/steamify-ui (PySide6 + QML): menu, review, password, applying and done
screens from the design, scaled to the window. Controller via evdev,
keyboard, TV remote (cecd). steamify.sh --backend status|apply (lib/backend.sh)
drives the same components; sudo asks through an askpass helper.
HDMI-CEC runs before Steam Machine support, which installs steamos-manager,
so its configure-cecd unit couldn't be enabled. Link them from Steam Machine
support too.
With the kernel pin ticked, install 7.1.6-1 before the LED driver, so DKMS
builds it once. steamos-manager checks for cecd only at its start: order it
after cecd.
Valve's empty, password-less wallet, like SteamOS. The user's wallet is
moved aside and restored when single user mode is off; the single user
wallet is kept and reused next time.
Sub-option of Steam Machine support, ticked along with it: newer CachyOS
kernels make the Steam Machine reboot instead of shutting down. Packages
are kept in /var/cache/steamify/kernel and reinstalled from there; else
pacman's cache, the CachyOS archive or mirror, or PINNED_KERNEL_URL.
"boot into: gamescope (from the next boot)" instead of "turn off: Boot into the desktop instead of gaming mode"; also in the progress line and the Done overview.
- Menu row "Boot into: [gamescope] / desktop" under the conversion; gamescope is the default.
- Desktop: steamify-boot-desktop.service sets the autologin session to Plasma at every boot, before the login manager; switching back and forth keeps working.
- VERSION 0.10.0.
When a restart is needed, q asks with yes as the default; n goes back to the menu and the next q asks again. Ctrl+C quits without restarting; scripted input that runs out never restarts.
The DKMS override was written to /etc/dkms before dkms was installed, when that folder doesn't exist yet: the write failed silently and other kernels (e.g. LTS) built against the running one and failed. Create the folder first and stop on a failed write. VERSION 0.9.1.
- 10-second countdown after the wizard ends (Enter closes right away); after an error it waits for Enter.
- pipefail, so a failed download counts as an error.
- setup-gamescope-boot.sh renamed to steamify.sh; all references updated.
- Releases publish the bundle as steamify.sh and, for older install commands, setup-gamescope-boot.sh.
- The Steamify shortcut runs steamify.sh.
All URLs point to github.com/theupriser/steamify-cachyos (the old ones redirect). The script and internal names (state dir, shortcut files) keep their names so old download URLs and existing installs keep working.
- Menu item: desktop icon + launcher entry that run the newest release in Konsole.
- Icon: Valve's return icon with a gear (assets/steam-gaming-settings.svg), published with each release.
- Desktop files are written already executable, so Plasma runs them.
- VERSION 0.9.0.
- After a run the menu returns; [m] back to the menu or [r] restart now when a restart is needed; q quits.
- A staged BIOS update greys the item out until the restart.
- WIZARD_BIOS_DRY_RUN=1: whole BIOS flow without the device check, never flashes.
- VERSION 0.8.0; CHANGELOG: BIOS work moved to 0.8.0; README: BIOS update step by step.
- Rename a variable in lib/bios.sh that clashed with lib/state.sh's array in the bundle.
- README, AGENTS.md and CHANGELOG.md for the greyed-out item, the device check and the aligned warning box.
- Greyed out and not tickable unless Valve has a newer BIOS (component_selectable).
- Download, SHA-256 and a fwupd device check (get-details) before the warnings.
- Warning box with a solid block frame (a coloured row of # renders narrower in Konsole); menu Now column aligned.
- Menu item (Fremont only, never preselected) with the current and newest BIOS version.
- Two warnings and two confirmations (y/N, then typing UPDATE); checksum-verified download
of Valve's fremont-hw-support; installed with fwupd, written at the next restart.
- Menu actions: one-off items that are never preselected, re-applied or listed as on/off.
- Publish release v$VERSION with its CHANGELOG.md section; never overwrite an existing version.
- Pull requests warn when VERSION is already released.
- Install URL: releases/latest/download/setup-gamescope-boot.sh (newest release).
- Release title shows VERSION; notes include that version's CHANGELOG.md section.
- Rename a variable in steamos-extras.sh that shellcheck confused with lib/state.sh's array in the bundle.
- VERSION in the entry point, shown in the menu header and the bundle.
- CHANGELOG.md with every commit per version (older versions numbered per merged PR).
- README and AGENTS.md updated for the cachyos-vapor theme, the SteamOS extras and the LED driver.
- The leds-valve Makefile builds against uname -r, so every other kernel
(e.g. linux-cachyos-lts) failed: add /etc/dkms/leds-valve-dkms.conf with
MAKE[0]="make KVERSION=${kernelver}". DKMS now builds it for every
installed kernel and rebuilds it on kernel updates.
- ensure-kernel-headers.service installs missing -headers for newly added
kernels at boot, which makes DKMS build the driver for them.
- Console-like power handling on mains power: power button sleeps, no
automatic suspend (journaled powerdevilrc).
- Menu: overview per installed kernel (headers, Steam controller driver,
LED driver built, running kernel) and whether the LEDs are loaded.
- Menu: the selected row's highlight no longer stops after the green x.
- Theme label in the menu: "Vapor look (cachyos-vapor)".
- Install CachyOS's cachyos-vapor package instead of extracting Valve's
steamdeck-kde-presets into ~/.local/share, and remove it again on disable
if the wizard installed it.
- Apply the Vapor global theme with "Desktop and window layout"
(lookandfeeltool --resetLayout): Steam Deck wallpaper, SteamOS panel and
launcher icon. Layout files are backed up and restored, every key from
Vapor's defaults goes through the undo journal.
- Restore the real previous color scheme (CachyOS's inline BreezeDark colors
have no scheme name), and clear ColorScheme before plasma-apply-colorscheme,
which otherwise skips an already named scheme.
- Register Vapor as the dark theme, so Plasma's Dark Mode toggle shows on.
- Drop the SteamOS desktop defaults (GTK, Konsole, gsettings, panel tweaks).
- New lib/steamos-extras.sh, downloaded from Valve's newest
steamdeck-kde-presets (checksum verified) into /usr/local: Add to Steam,
Nested Desktop, the gaming-return icon for Return to Gaming Mode, the
Steam Keyboard window rule and an empty KWallet (only without a wallet).
- single_launcher: re-apply single user's launcher settings after the
layout reset replaces the launcher.
tools/bundle.sh inlines lib/ into one script; the workflow builds and
checks it on every push and PR, and on main publishes it to the rolling
"latest" release. Piped in via curl, it reattaches the terminal so the
menu keeps working.
- Menu detects what is on and applies only the changes: SteamOS
conversion, SteamOS theme, Steam Deck/Machine icons, single user mode,
and Steam Machine support (only on Fremont hardware)
- Everything is reversible: KDE settings go through an undo journal
(lib/state.sh), system files are restored from their backups
- Steam Machine support: LED driver, udev rule giving the user the LED
files, steamos-manager for Steam's hardware settings; OpenRGB dropped
- Edit Plasma files only while plasmashell is stopped so it can't
overwrite them
- README and AGENTS.md describe the menu, the component model and the
test environment
- One wizard question: "single user, no password, like SteamOS" switches
to SDDM (autologin via CachyOS's own steam-set-session, no workarounds)
and removes lock screen, user switching and log out (launcher shows only
Sleep/Restart/Shut Down; Meta+L and Ctrl+Alt+Del unbound). Declining
keeps the current login manager and KDE's defaults
- Look up the newest steamdeck-kde-presets from Valve's release repos and
verify its SHA-256; take over the new SteamOS 3.9 defaults
- Restart plasmashell through systemd so the desktop keeps the session's
dark theme; drop the bundled icon in favour of Valve's and Steam's
- README and AGENTS.md updated
- Fix session switching: sync bridge only edits [Autologin], sync service
no longer hits systemd's start limit, re-runs don't duplicate settings
- Make the Return to Gaming Mode shortcut work without a password prompt
- Steam desktop autostart only runs in Plasma, not inside gamescope
- Vapor theme: fix install path, wallpaper, icon and color scheme; take
over Valve's SteamOS defaults, GTK theme, panel layout and dark mode;
always fetch the newest steamdeck-kde-presets with checksum verification
- Steam Machine: install kernel headers and build/load the leds-valve
driver reliably; ask before installing OpenRGB
- Split the script into lib/ modules per responsibility
- Rewrite README for end users with a technical details section; add
AGENTS.md
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