systemctl --user goes through user_systemctl, which only changes unit files
without a session; the theme lets Plasma build Vapor's layout at the first
login when the layout is still /etc/skel's; a one-time first-login autostart
sets up single user's launcher and opens the app.
The power-off fix becomes an opt-out sub-option of Steam Machine
support. The kernel pin is no longer offered: an existing pin (and HDMI
refresh boost, which needs it) is unticked so a normal run removes it.
Components record a feature version on each successful run; installs
with an older version are ticked and updated, and new default
sub-options are ticked where their parent is on.
Kernels >= 7.2 keep the firmware's S4/S5 wake bit on GPIO pin 18, so the
Steam Machine starts again right after powering off. Steam Machine
support now builds a DKMS module (patches/steamify-fremont-poweroff.c)
that clears it before power-off, for every kernel. The kernel pin is no
longer ticked by default. Module sources and patches move to patches/,
embedded by the single-file build.
Rates are saved per display (EDID ID) and loaded by the hotplug script
for whichever display is connected. The item is on only while the
connected display is boosted; unticking removes just that one. The app
lists the saved displays and removes any of them (hdmi-forget).
The EDID override moves off the kernel command line to a hotplug script
(boot unit + udev rule) that loads it only while the display it was
tested on is connected, identified over DDC; other displays get their
own EDID.
Steamify CachyOS on the desktop and in the launcher starts the newest app
(in Konsole the first time, while PySide6 still has to be installed); the
terminal menu is Steamify Terminal in the launcher. A shortcut from before
2.0.1 is ticked in the menu, so a normal run replaces it. steamify-app.sh
leaves the shortcut's launcher entry (same id) alone.
Set up… opens a screen with the display, its resolution and the rates on
offer. The display's own faster mode is switched to right away; the other
rates can each be tried live (wait for the picture, keep within 15 s or it
switches back) and ticked; Install installs the ticked ones through
apply --hdmi. All rates are loaded when the screen opens, so a try is only a
mode switch. Also fixes switching back to a rate like 59.97 Hz.
Both are sub-options of Steam Machine support now, shown only while it is
ticked. Unticking it unticks them; unticking the kernel pin unticks the
HDMI refresh boost, which only works with the pinned kernel.
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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
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
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