It also makes scheduling way simpler. Want something repeated every hour? Add a `sleep` to your script. It will do what needs to be done, wait, stop, and then `runit` will start it up again.
For more complex tasks (“do something on Sundays at 5 in the morning”, for example), swap `sleep` with `snooze`. While both `cron` and `snooze` were written by aliens who are afraid of human language, it’s easy to do a dry run of `snooze` and see if your incantation is correct.
Don’t be like me and spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to run a #runit service as a user. I guess #kanatakbd uses `cmd` to run another program (`wtype`), but permissions still interfere… 🤷 at this point I gave up.
What you *should* do is to create a user-level service: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/user-services.html Then it’s simple: make a dir, put a `run` in it (`log/run` optional), and you’re done. Is it a service or a #nushell script? Both! Runit is great!
https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/fde.html
I followed this guide in a VM. It worked flawlessly, but it’s a lot! In the end, you don’t even have a user account. However, it’s a good foundation for a laptop that can leave your house. And that’s what I’m preparing this setup for. I need to test what I can simplify for myself. I also need to look into different file systems. If I’m redoing everything, it’s a good opportunity to make improvements.
Copying the plugin folders manually worked. Not many of them will be useful, but I tested SteamGridDB and ProtonDB Badges.
I also tried installing a previous version of #DeckyLoader to see if it would update, but it broke. So I’ll leave it for now. I’m thinking of writing a script for automatic installation, #runit and all, which shouldn’t be hard. However, doing everything by hand is also not that difficult. As usual, feel free to ask.
I take it back about #syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/tree/main/etc/linux-runit Mostly: it should be simply `export SYNCTHING="/usr/bin/syncthing`.
Decided to use my old #SteamController, which made it easy. The #VoidLinux `steam-udev-rules` package is useful for this. Or does it work without it? Shrug.
I made #DeckyLoader work with #runit, but it’s store is currently unavailable (just for me?) so I can’t test it. I also don’t know how it is updated.
So, now Haiku. Still JK.
Sorta todo for later:
• gamepad (I hate `udev`);
• testing a couple of games to check if I forgot anything;
• the hardest, but not impossible part – figuring out if I can install the #DeckyLoader on #VoidLinux;
• Haiku in VM. JK.
Don’t plan on playing anything on it yet. It’s amazing how many games I’m interested in can run on much less powerful machines, including my phone. I just was in the mood for tinkering, for those few games that require a more powerful PC.
I also added a repository to #VoidLinux: just a file with one line. Really easy!
https://github.com/xJayMorex/ProtonPlus-void
#ProtonPlus is just a fancier-looking #ProtonUp.
It was all for this…
I installed `gamescope`, `MangoHud` (case sensitive) and `MangoHud-mangoapp` (you need that one), as well as their 32-bit counterparts, just in case.
Then I ran the script from https://github.com/shahnawazshahin/steam-using-gamescope-guide Then I panicked because, while it was doing its thing with #gamescope, the screen went completely blank. But it works now and I have my own #SteamMachine already. SDDM logs in automatically, I can switch to the desktop and #MangoHud works.
#syncthing was a hassle. I’m not sure why, as I’m dealing with multiple unfamiliar variables here – `runit` and `chpst` – but after installing `socklog` (#VoidLinux is really minimal, y’all!), I guess setting `env` before everything else was the key. In the end, my `run` file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec env HOME=/home/andrew \
chpst -u andrew:andrew \
/usr/bin/syncthing serve --no-browser --logflags=0
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/tree/main/etc/linux-runit was not helpful.
Hey, look who’s back!
First, #VoidLinux updated without a hitch, despite being dormant for almost a year (really?! Wow!). But I didn’t – I’d completely forgotten my sway and foot shortcuts, so I installed #KDEPlasma instead (`kde-plasma` and `kde-baseapps`). It’s graphical, I know it, I like it. Then I installed `pulseaudio` to fix the sound. Enabled SDDM. And #WezTerm, why not.
Andrew