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.
The app gets its texts and the same rules as the menu: unticking Steam
Machine support or the kernel pin unticks it. It can't be turned on from
the app, as each step needs someone at the keyboard to confirm the picture.
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).
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.
- 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).
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