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Experimental (#29)
* Input relay: typing with the pointer helper down no longer ends the relay Typing on a pass-through keyboard tells the helper "typing". With the helper not running (SteamVR off), that send raised ConnectionRefusedError and the relay exited, dropping every grab until systemd restarted it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ft-steam: open Steam's menu through Steam's own UI steam/ft-steam menu opens the SteamVR dashboard on Steam's menu, or closes the dashboard if it's up, without pointer mode: it asks Steam's UI over its debugging port to show its dashboard overlay (ShowVROverlay, what Steam calls itself) and focus the Steam frame's left menu (MenuStore.OpenMainMenu). ft-steam check says whether those calls still exist, and update-check.py runs it, since a Steam client update can rename them. The CDP client moves from display-settings/steam_settings.py to steam/steamui.py, so both use it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Shortcuts: Steam menu, commands, and modifier taps Key combinations (and mouse and controller buttons) get two new actions: - steam_menu: Open Steam menu / close dashboard (steam/ft-steam menu). - command:CMD: run CMD with sh -c, as the relay's service, with layout/, float/ and steam/ on its PATH. Input Settings offers it for key combinations as Run a command... Both work without pointer mode. A modifier on its own is now a key combination too: a tap, pressed and released with no other key, mouse button, or scroll in between. A bound tap sends the desktop F24 before the release, so Plasma's launcher stays shut. The defaults gain a Meta tap for the Steam menu; this replaces META_DASHBOARD, which only worked in pointer mode. input/test/keys-test.py runs the relay against fake devices with every outgoing socket renamed, so it's safe next to the live relay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Relay: share a key combination's Meta release with frame-voice A Meta+key combination (Meta+J for gaze_left, say) hides Meta's release from the desktop, and the relay skipped share_key for it too. frame-voice saw Meta go down on @frametop_keys and never come up, so it held all dictated text back, waiting for that release. Keys of grabbed keyboards are now shared as pressed, before key_binding() decides what the desktop gets. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: ft-cutouts, the hand cutouts without pinches and grips hands/ft-cutouts on|off|status starts ft-camd and ft-hands as transient user units with ft-hands' new --no-gestures: hands are published for ft-screens' cutouts, but no pinch or grip is detected, so nothing clicks or drags and a closing hand doesn't raise the tracking rate. It needs a build and ft-camd's capabilities, not hands/run.sh install. Its units conflict with ft-handsctl's, so each stops the other, and they stop with SteamVR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ft-cutouts status: only the current run's tracker lines Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Gaze: say why gaze mode can't work yet, and open the calibration whenever it's missing Turning gaze mode on without a calibration opened Calibrate only on the off-to-on change, and only if it could open right then. With the headset off, the eye tracker silent, or the panel not built, or with gaze mode already on when the gaze service started, nothing opened and nothing said why: the pointer just stayed a mouse. - The gaze service now checks every second: gaze mode on, no calibration for the tracker in use, eyes seen -> the full calibration opens. One that closes unfinished opens again only after the headset comes off and on, gaze mode off and on, or Calibrate, so it doesn't loop. A start that fails retries every 10 s. - Its status says why gaze mode can't work yet (checks.problem): not calibrated and opening, open, closed unfinished, or can't open and why. - Input Settings shows that under the Gaze pointer switch, along with the gaze service not installed or not running and our tracker missing its frame grabber. - ft-gazectl on notes a missing calibration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Gaze: install our eye tracker, prefer it, and say why a calibration dot wasn't taken A user on a fresh install got "Calibration failed: only 0 of 21 dots" with no reason. The installer never installed our tracker, so gaze used SteamVR's, and the only way SteamVR's tracker rejects a dot is losing an eye for most of the look. The panel just showed a red ring. - install.sh: step 9/10 installs our tracker (gaze/tracker/install.sh) after gaze mode, yes by default; it needs sudo, so --yes runs it only when sudo won't prompt. If it fails, gaze keeps SteamVR's tracker. Configs that still say GAZE_TRACKER=steam (the old template) are asked whether to switch. - GAZE_TRACKER=auto, the new default: ours when it's installed (the frame grabber, its unit, and ft-eyes' Python), else SteamVR's. ft-gazed rechecks every second, so installing it switches over. Input Settings lists Own tracker first as recommended, and says how to install it when it's missing (checking the host's /etc through /run/host from the dev container). - The calibration panel has a note line, orange over the instructions: why a dot wasn't taken (an eye lost, a blink, the eyes disagreeing for SteamVR's tracker, from steady_samples' new drop counts; ft-eyes' reply for ours), what a click is still waiting for after 1.5 s, and a failed calibration's most common reason, which the Gaze page shows too. steady_samples keeps the same samples as before (checked on 2037 windows of recordings); a lost eye is named before a blink, since its openness reads 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * README: link the Frametop Discord Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Wait for a new container to finish setting up before entering it container-up.sh starts the dev container in a scope of its own, so distrobox enter finds it running and skips its wait for distrobox-init. On a fresh install, init was still setting up passwordless sudo when dev-container.sh ran sudo dnf install, and sudo asked for a password with no terminal to read it from. container-up.sh now waits for container_setup_done itself, and the container's sudo calls use -n, so a password prompt fails at once with a clear message. Fixes #9 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Prevent small desktop overlay pointer movements from starting a drag * Clear reported drag state on controller release * Click stability: only a hand controller's press starts it The 3D mouse drives SteamVR's laser through the ft_pointer virtual controller, so its events reach the screens the same way a controller's do. The filter held every press, which turned the mouse's short drags (selecting a character or two, nudging a slider) into clicks. Mark button events from hand controllers and start the filter only on those. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Input relay: retry a new device until udev gives it to the input group A new /dev/input node is root:root 0600 until udev applies GROUP=input. The scan probed each new node once and marked it seen even when the open failed, so a node caught in that gap was never opened. Behind a KVM, a switch brings back a hub of devices at once: on the Frame, four nodes failed with EACCES in one switch, the keyboard was never grabbed, and its keys went to gamescope instead of the desktop screens. A node that isn't readable yet now waits for the next scan. * Screens: take a screen's overlays from one copy in the catcher While a button pressed on a screen is held, UpdateCatcher checks every tick whether the laser is still on one of the screen's overlays. It built that list from s.All().begin() and s.All().end(), but All() returns a std::array by value: iterators into two different temporaries, which is undefined behaviour. A clang build of ft-screens got a garbage length, threw std::length_error, and aborted on the first click, taking KWin and the desktop with it. * Gaze: leave SteamVR's gaze action alone during VR games From curiousjtuber's PR #13: with the gaze service running, SteamVR restarted its eye tracker every 10 to 13 s of Beat Saber, as if the headset came off, and each restart took input focus from the game. The PR stopped every read in a game. Only the action path reaches SteamVR (UpdateActionState on the gaze set at overlay-global priority, then GetEyeTrackingDataRelativeToNow); the mmap and our tracker are read-only files. So only the action is skipped while a scene app runs, and gaze keeps moving the pointer over the dashboard in a game. The action source is only used with --source action. Co-Authored-By: CuriousJ <curious.j.tuber@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: --record-hz, and the hand recorder's design (hands/rec/DESIGN.md) ft-hands --record-hz N records at most N frame sets a second, for the hand recorder (10). DESIGN.md lays out the recorder: the headset panel, the session runner and its script, the files, review and export, consent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: ft-handpanel, the hand recorder's headset panel A head-locked SteamVR overlay for the hand recorder (hands/rec/DESIGN.md): 1.2 m ahead, 12 degrees up, 36 degrees wide, drawn with stb_truetype into three shared DMA-BUFs as ft-gazepanel does. It shows the title, step, wrapped instruction, note, countdown, hand chips, near/far bar and a "Paused" cover, driven over @ft_handpanel. It also places the touch target, a 2 cm dot in its own overlay fixed in the room where the head was at the first command for that point, and logs head and controller poses to poses.jsonl at 250 Hz from a thread of its own. Both threads take one lock around OpenVR calls. --no-vr prints each picture's state to stdout (and --dump writes the pictures), for testing without a headset. hands/rec/build.sh builds it in the dev container. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: the recorder's worn check goes by the panel's backlight, as frame-job does Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: the hand recorder's session runner and guided script hands/rec/session.py runs a recording session from script.json: it starts ft-camd and a tracking ft-hands as transient units only if they aren't running, records each section as one take (ft-hands --record-only at 10 sets/s, a new sets-N.bin after each pause), drives ft-handpanel, and writes session.json, calibration.json (identifying fields removed), prompts.jsonl and take.json. Feedback comes from the live hands file and, in the controller sections, from the panel's device poll. It also runs from the command line (--dry-run, --speed, --ring, --no-start). hands/rec/script.json: 11 sections, about 9 minutes without the object and controller sections. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: the hand recorder's window, review and export hands/rec/ft_handrec.py + main.qml (Kirigami, dev container; host launcher hands/rec/ft-handrec): consent (CONSENT.md, asked again when its version changes; profile.json with a random contributor id), the before-you-start checklist with the lighting and free-space checks, the session controls (Space pauses, Esc stops), review with a frame-set viewer that deletes ranges, takes and sessions, export with progress and cancel (warns while the headset is worn), and the upload page (UPLOAD.md, the huggingface-cli command; HF_DATASET is a placeholder). --dry-run runs sessions without processes, for testing. hands/rec/takes.py (standard library): indexes sets.bin and sets-N.bin without reading pixels, reads one set's cameras, keeps deleted ranges in take.json, and exports: deleted sets left out, zstd -10 -T2 at nice 19, manifest.json and SHA256SUMS, nothing left behind on cancel. CONSENT.md and UPLOAD.md are drafts pending a legal review; the window says contributions aren't open yet. The dev container gains zstd. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Hands: upload from the hand recorder's window, export checks, a rehearsal hands/rec/validate.py (standard library; Linux and Windows, Python 3.12+) checks an export before upload and when it's received: SHA256SUMS, an allow-list of files, the manifest's schema and keys, the consent version, a uuid4 contributor, no identifying fields in calibration.json or device.json, every sets.bin.zst decompressed to its end as a stream with each FHSET01 header checked against the manifest, jsonl lines, the total size. It decompresses with compression.zstd, zstandard or the zstd program. validate.py DIR [--json]. hands/rec/hub.py uploads an export with huggingface_hub, as a pull request to contributions/<contributor>/<session>: validate first, refuse a repeat of the same export, check the login (whoami) and access (auth_check), upload_folder(create_pr=True) with the manifest summary as the description, then record the PR under "uploads" in session.json. Errors are explained (terms not accepted, not found, 401/403, network). --dry-run makes no network calls. FT_HANDREC_DATASET overrides HF_DATASET (DeeJanuz/frametop-hands); while the texts are drafts a real upload needs FT_HANDREC_ALLOW_UPLOAD=1. The Upload page shows the login with "Check again" and how to run hf auth login in a terminal (the token never enters the window), then Upload with a phase, progress and Cancel (hub.py as a child process), the PR link, and a warning for an export uploaded before. The manual command stays as the fallback. ft-handrec --hub-dry-run. session.py also saves device.json: cv.cad_from_cal and head from /persist/device_config.json, the labeller's shape, nothing identifying; export copies it. Session ids with a -N suffix are accepted everywhere. hands/rec/rehearse.sh runs it all without the headset: ft-ringplay plays 30 s of a capture into a ring, session.py records a short test script with ft-handpanel --no-vr and a tracker, then export, validate and a dry-run upload (--repo ID uploads for real). It runs in one frame-job scope, deletes its data and stops its processes, also on Ctrl+C. hands/rec/tests/test_validate.py covers good and broken exports and hub.py without the network. The dev container gains python3-huggingface-hub. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * README: Frametop doesn't work on the SteamOS beta yet Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit |
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Bring the docs up to date with the code
- floating-windows.md and profiles.md describe what's built, with what isn't listed as such; the plans, phases, and branch notes are gone - hands-migration.md is gone: the move is done; its open items are in hands/README.md's Known issues - reference.md: Layout & profiles, every action, key combinations, floating windows, the gaze pointer, and hand tracking as they are - design.md gets the KWin findings from floating-windows.md - README, gaze/README, AGENTS, hazards, gaze-controllers, and the example config catch up with gaze, hands, and the stuck-key fix Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Merge gaze-calibration into experimental
The gaze checks and calibration in a headset panel (quick, five, full, headset fit; shared-buffer drawing, click-to-capture), keyboard and mouse gaze clicks (Meta+J/K, the mouse's buttons alike, mouse moves only while a button is held, double right/Meta+K tilts a drag), one 55 degree learning limit with a quick check past it, eye presence for "the headset went on", the gaze probe as a development tool, and the relay releasing keys the desktop has down that no keyboard holds. Conflicts with the profiles: the relay keeps known_action/needs_pointer and the gaze defaults (Meta+J/K and the float key); Input Settings keeps the profile actions everywhere and the gaze actions in key combinations only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Gaze mode: the mouse only corrects, and left-then-right right-clicks
POINTER_GAZE_MOUSE_MOVE=held, the default (the Gaze page's Mouse movement switch, with why it's on): while the gaze has the pointer, moving the mouse does nothing; it moves the pointer only while a button is held, as a correction. A bumped or drifting mouse can't pull the pointer off what you're looking at, and every mouse move is a correction, so lessons aren't polluted by mouse moves to somewhere else. With the gaze stale for a second, in a game, or with the headset off, the mouse moves the pointer as usual. "free" is the old behaviour. Pressing the right button while the left one's press is held back right-clicks where the pointer is instead (correct with the left, then right-click); both releases are then nothing. Meta+J then Meta+K stays a drag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Gaze learning limit: 55 degrees, past it a quick check; a solid panel
Drops the quick check's second step (
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Quick check: put the pointer on the dot, and one limit for learning
After the quick check's capture, in gaze mode, the dot stays where it is in the
room (the panel's new "lock") and the gaze has the pointer again. You put the
pointer on the dot as you'd correct a click, with the mouse or Meta+J and the
head. That click clicks nothing: the helper sends it as "calverify", learned
whatever its size. Over POINTER_GAZE_NUDGE_MAX, the capture runs again, up to
3 times. A right click or Meta+K skips it.
POINTER_GAZE_NUDGE_MAX is now the one limit: 15 degrees by default (was 8),
and ft-gazed's own limits (8 for SteamVR's tracker, 25 for ours) follow it. A
keyboard correction past it isn't learned but opens a quick check ("recheck"),
in place of the 30 degree keyboard limit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Check what Frametop needs from SteamOS after an update
On the Frame, a SteamOS update replaces SteamVR, KWin, and gamescope with the rest of the OS image. scripts/update-check.py, run by doctor.sh and report.sh, checks what Frametop uses from it: the OpenVR interface versions the installed programs were built against, the vrcmd --overlays format, the eye tracker's shared memory layout, host files, services, sockets, and the driver registration. doctor.sh --mark-good records the package versions once things work, and later runs say what changed and what to try by hand. The session no longer stops when mesavars.sh or flatpak.sh is missing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Profiles: named layouts that open apps
A profile is a named layout plus the screens it hides and its apps' windows (docs/profiles.md). ft-layout save captures them (ft-floatd's "windows", after the KWin script reports every window as it is now); use opens them: the screens move, open windows of each app go to their places (on a screen, maximized or not, or floating), and missing apps start, once and then again for each window still missing 3 s after the first. Nothing closes. The desktop starts in FT_PROFILE or default_profile (ft-layout start, from the session script). Each profile gets a launcher entry (Frametop: NAME, in SteamVR's Launch a program list) that switches to it or starts the desktop in it. The relay's profile:NAME action and Input Settings' "Open profile" entries put one on a key, mouse button, or controller button. Display Settings' Layout page becomes Layout & profiles: Save as profile, Open profile, the profile's apps, and Start in profile. Plasma's own session restore is off in the Frametop session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Launch apps floating, remember where they floated, and Launch as Standalone
ft-float launch APP / run COMMAND: ft-floatd starts the app and floats its first window (matched by process or desktop file name for 30 s) where that app last floated, or in front of you at the primary screen's density. Each app's place (pose relative to the primary screen, size in pixels, scale) is kept in ~/.config/frametop-float.json whenever one of its windows stops floating; the scale isn't applied yet, since rescaling can loop (written up in docs/floating-windows.md, Known problems). Launch as Standalone (float/ft_apps.py): the session writes copies of the apps' desktop files with that action and puts them first in XDG_DATA_DIRS, so it shows in the Application Launcher's and the taskbar's right-click menus in the Frametop desktop only. ft-floatd rewrites them when apps change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Gaze checks and calibration in a panel fixed to the headset
ft-gazepanel (gaze/panel) is a SteamVR overlay that stays put in your view and shows dots at known head-relative directions; the gaze service runs it and drives it (gaze/gazecheck.py): - a one-dot quick check 3 s after the headset goes on, when our tracker asks for a click (reseat), at most every 2 minutes, and from Quick check on the Gaze page; five dots follow if the next 3 lessons are still over 2 degrees off - the full calibration (the probe's three rounds, dark to bright) when gaze mode comes on without one, or from Calibrate; quitting it with still no calibration turns gaze mode off Each dot takes the gaze once it has held still for 0.6 s; a left click or Meta+J takes it at once, a right click or Meta+K closes the panel (the pointer helper hides its dot and passes those presses on while "calpanel" lasts). Our tracker gets clicks and its own calibration; SteamVR's gets lessons per eye, or a new calibration.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Title bar button: fixes from trying it in the live desktop
- The decoration's "bottom" property clashed with Item's (KWin refused it). - No On All Desktops button with one virtual desktop, like Breeze. - decoration/apply.sh finds the session's D-Bus through plasmashell (KWin's environment isn't readable), and installs each try under a new name: KWin keeps a decoration's QML by name until it restarts. - ft-floatd starts its script with Scripting.start: after a reload, the new script gets the old one's id while the old one is still being deleted, so run() on /Scripting/Script<id> went to the old script and the new one never ran (a second ft-floatd start left floating windows without their script). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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A float button in every window's title bar
Frametop's own window decoration (decoration/), a QML decoration for KWin's Aurorae engine drawn like Breeze, puts a float button left of Close. It's the Keep Below button with its own glyph: the KWin script floats a window when keep-below is set and docks it when it's cleared, and keeps the flag set on every floating window, so the button shows "back to the desktop" there. The session script installs the decoration for the Frametop desktop only; decoration/apply.sh switches a running desktop to it or back to Breeze. Not yet tried in a running KWin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Gaze mode is a mouse feature: drop its controller parts
Steam reads the Frame controllers itself, outside SteamVR's bindings, and every press and release it sees takes SteamVR out of laser mode, so controller clicks at the gaze can't be done cleanly (docs/gaze-controllers.md, from the gaze-first branch's tests). - Gaze precision and Gaze drag take a mouse button or a key combination only; the controller source, its aim steering, and POINTER_PRECISION_GAIN, POINTER_PRECISION_DEADZONE and POINTER_GAZE_DRAG_GAIN are gone. - The gaze actions (including Gaze pointer on/off) can't be mapped to controller buttons: the relay ignores them there and doesn't ask the helper for those buttons, and Input Settings no longer offers them. - Last used wins in gaze mode too: picking up a controller hands it the laser, as docs/design.md already said. - The gaze dot shows all the time (POINTER_GAZE_DOT=always, the default; moving brings back the old behaviour), with a switch on the Gaze page. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Take the user, host, and home from the machine, not this Frame
The local RDP login between krdp and the VNC bridge uses the account's own name instead of "steamos", its certificate the hostname instead of "steam-frame", and the ft_pointer driver installs under the user's home instead of /home/steamos. The remote-access address already came from the tailnet (tailscale0 and tailscaled's local API). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Add Frametop Remote Access, a settings app for the VNC view
A GTK 4 / libadwaita app (remote/ft-remote-settings, on the host's own Python like the gaze probe): remote access on and off (REMOTE, applied at once when the desktop allows it), the tailnet name and address to connect to, and the VNC password shown, copied, or replaced. The password stays random and made on the Frame, in ~/.config/frametop-remote; none is in the code. session/remote-ctl.sh starts, stops, and reports remote access; the session uses it and leaves a remote-capable marker, since KWin allows the capture only in a desktop that started with REMOTE=1. The password between krdp and the VNC bridge (local only, but on krdp's command line) is now new at every start. The installer adds the app to the menu. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Serve only the desktop's primary screen over VNC
krdp streams every screen, so the VNC screen is now the primary's size and the FreeRDP window is shifted so the primary fills it (ft-layout remote-view gives the offset). It resizes and reconnects when the layout changes. With remote access on, KWin's D-Bus screenshot interface is open too, for scripts that look at the screens without the headset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit 6f5a23c80f2ecd26e6a96c86b102be36d518ee25) |
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Merge eye-tracking into experimental
Our own eye tracker joins the gaze folder: ft-eyegrab (the root frame grabber, frametop-eyegrab.service) and ft-eyes, run by the gaze service when GAZE_TRACKER=own, with its lab tools. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Input Settings: drop the pointer role choice
The hand role the pointer takes isn't something to choose by hand. The helper still reads POINTER_ROLE (right by default) for experiments. Tried and reverted (not committed): in gaze mode, taking the stylus role by reconnecting. SteamVR gave the device no role at all (hint 5, role none) and kept the dashboard laser on the held controllers, so the mouse couldn't click either. The dashboard laser needs a hand role, and a held Frame controller takes its hand's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Gaze first: precision and drag buttons, key combinations, pointer role
Two new actions for mouse buttons, controller buttons, and key
combinations: gaze_precision (hold: the pointer stops where you look and
the button's device steers it, a controller by where it points at
POINTER_PRECISION_GAIN, the mouse by its moves; release: click there) and
gaze_drag (the same with a real press at once, dragging until the
release). The relay sends "precision|gazedrag <source> 1|0" to the
helper, which runs them through the same holds as pinches and grips.
- Key combinations on any keyboard ("key_bindings" in the rules, e.g.
Ctrl+Alt+G for gaze on/off): the last key isn't typed.
- POINTER_GAZE_MOUSE: in gaze mode the left button is a precision button
(the default, as before) or clicks right away (direct).
- In gaze mode a moving controller no longer takes the pointer away.
- POINTER_ROLE (right, left, stylus): the driver takes a "role" command,
so the pointer can stay off the hand holding the precision controller,
which would otherwise take the role back. Needs the rebuilt driver.
- Input Settings: the actions on the Controllers and Buttons pages; on the
Gaze page the mouse choice, the role, the precision sliders, and key
combinations (captured from any keyboard).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hands: park hand tracking behind ft-handsctl
Hand tracking no longer starts with SteamVR: hands/run.sh install leaves the units disabled and links hands/ft-handsctl into ~/.local/bin, which turns it on and off (on | off | status | log | cutouts on|off | gestures). With it on, hands show through the screens; pinches and grips move the pointer only with POINTER_HANDS=1, now off by default. ft-camd's service runs the mono cameras only: while the headset is worn, the colour module writes just a half-size image into the top-left quarter of its buffers, which ft-camd can't use yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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5ca4160a7e |
Hands: fixes from the second headset test (pinches)
- The palm-down filter is off by default: the user's deliberate pinches, hand raised, read 0.90-0.99, like typing. - Typing is told apart by the keyboard instead: the input relay sends the pointer helper "typing" on key presses, and it takes no pinch within POINTER_PINCH_TYPING (1 s) of one. - Grips are still held to hands raised (POINTER_GRIP_BELOW, 0.35 m below the eyes); pinches aren't, since the user's own sat 0.35-0.45 m below, elbow resting. - A grip doesn't begin with the thumb on the index tip: that's a pinch with the other fingers curled, which was taken for a grip. - A pinch's point is the index and middle knuckles: the tips' midpoint moved 1-2 cm as the pinch opened, dragging every release off its press. - ft-hands --gesture-log prints what the detectors measure, 10 times a second. Pinches still aren't reliable enough to use; hand tracking is parked for now in favour of the controllers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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50c14545ed |
Hands: pick the cameras by the light, and detect grips
ft-hands tracks with the mono IR cameras in dim light and with every camera (or the colour pair, HANDS_BRIGHT) in bright light, going by the colour frames' mean brightness with hysteresis and a 2 s hold (HANDS_CAMERAS=auto, the default; mono, color and all fix it). Colour frames are placed on the mono cameras' clock by their dequeue time, and a view in a camera a step lacks waits for that camera's next frame. A grip (a closed hand) is a second gesture next to the pinch, in version 2 of the gestures file: every fingertip curled toward the wrist, beginning only on a hand seen open within a second and held up in front. On the 2026-09-30 lit recording that leaves 6 false grips of 14, all with the hands on the desk; pinch counts are unchanged. ft-handreplay logs grips and finger curl, watch_gestures.py shows them, and tools/cut_sets.py copies a few sets out of a recording. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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8bc6739dca |
Merge hands-migration into experimental
Hand tracking (ft-camd, ft-hands, and their tools) joins the desktop. The hands file and ring move to /run/user/UID/frametop-hands/, which ft-screens' hand cutouts now read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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4493b789fd |
Merge floating-windows into experimental
Floating windows join the keyboard and the hand cutouts. Floating panels don't get cutouts yet: their panel and popups show crops of the client buffer (texture bounds), which the side-by-side cutout buffer doesn't match. KWin gets both the spare outputs and our input method, and the pointer helper's frametop. prefix already covers the float panels. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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5714978e65 |
Add a keyboard for text fields on the desktop
Fixes #7: SteamVR's keyboard never came up for the desktop's apps, and opening it for our panels doesn't work well on the Frame (it's Steam's own panel, mounted in the dashboard's scene, it follows the laser between panels, and it takes the controllers over to SteamVR's laser). - KWin starts input/ft-textinput as the desktop's input method. It tells the input relay when a text field gains or loses focus, and the relay asks ft-screens to open or close the keyboard. The session drops the QT_IM_MODULE=xim and GTK_IM_MODULE=xim that the gamescope session sets, or Qt and GTK apps never report text fields. - The keyboard is ft-screens' own panel (screens/keyboard.cpp): a US laptop layout, typed with a controller's laser or the 3D mouse. It opens 0.7 m in front of you, below your eyes and facing you. It has a grab bar to move it, a Close key, latching Shift, Ctrl and Alt, and repeat on a held key. It's drawn into shared DMA-BUFs, so it doesn't flicker. Its keys reach the focused screen as key presses, so every app takes them. - It steps aside while the Steam menu or Steam's own keyboard is up and comes back after. A layout reset closes it, and it doesn't open without a head pose. - Frametop Input Settings has a Keyboard page: open it for every text field, only while no keyboard is connected (the default), only from a mapped button (the new Open/close keyboard action, for mice and controllers), or never. A switch keeps it open until you close it. - The pointer helper treats every frametop.* overlay as a real panel. The keyboard's shared texture reports 0x0 like SteamVR's scene-graph controls, and the helper had given it their wide catch radius. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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ed75614f62 |
Bring our own eye tracker into the gaze folder, run by the gaze service
frame-eyes, a separate project until now, becomes gaze/tracker:
- ft-eyegrab (was fe-bufprobe) copies the eye-camera frames, read-only, out of
SteamVR's eyetracking process. It runs as the system service
frametop-eyegrab.service, which gaze/tracker/install.sh installs to
/etc/frametop with sudo. It keeps only CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH, and
CAP_CHOWN, and copies frames only while /dev/shm/frametop-eyes-want is fresh,
holding none of the tracker's buffers otherwise.
- ft-eyes (was fe-trackd) runs under ft-gazed in the dev container, with
build/venv's pinned numpy and OpenCV: while Eye tracker is Own tracker, or on
the probe's lease ("eyes SECONDS"). No sudo password or fe-live script at
run time any more.
- lab/ holds the research tools (ft-eyes-score, -e2e, -record, -replay,
-session) and findings.md. Recordings live outside the repo, in
~/.local/share/frametop/eyes/captures; .gitignore catches stray frame dumps.
Its socket is now @ft_eyes, its output /dev/shm/frametop-eyes-gaze, and its state
~/.local/state/frametop/gaze/eyes. On practice1 -> practice2 the whole live path
(ft-eyes-e2e) gives 1.30 deg median and 3.18 for the worst tenth, as before the
move (1.30, 3.21).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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499035216c |
Make hand tracking a Frametop component
- Programs: ft-camd (the camera broker), ft-hands (the tracker), and ft-handreplay and ft-ringplay for recordings, built by hands/build.sh into hands/build/ with one Makefile. The first build fetches ncnn at frame-hands' pinned tag and builds it with the same options. - ft-camd gets its privileges from file capabilities (CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_PERFMON, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH) that hands/run.sh install sets with sudo, and drops them once set up. It still works under sudo. It runs on the host, linked statically, as frametop-camd.service. ft-hands runs in the dev container as frametop-hands.service. Both start and stop with SteamVR. - Files move to /run/user/UID/frametop/ (cam-ring, hands, gestures), not $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, which a terminal in the Frametop desktop has its own of. SIGUSR1 recordings go to ~/.local/share/frametop/hands. - The calibration is read through /run/host in the container. - Settings: HANDS_SWAP_SIDES and HANDS_CPUS in frametop.conf. - install.sh offers hand tracking as an optional last step. - The container gets jsoncpp-devel, glibc-static, and NumPy and OpenCV for the Python tools. - tools/ring.py reads the ring, and models/NOTICE credits the Apache-2.0 models. Checked: ft-handreplay gives identical summaries and byte-identical depth dumps to frame-hands' fh-replay on both 2026-09-29 recordings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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5565a25444 |
Let the gaze pointer use our own eye tracker, and weight the eyes
Frametop Input Settings' Gaze page gets two settings, saved in frametop.conf and read again by ft-gazed when the file changes: Eye tracker (GAZE_TRACKER: SteamVR's or our own, frame-eyes' fe-trackd) and Eye bias (GAZE_EYE: auto, left, right). ft-gazed now combines the eyes, each calibrated on its own: SteamVR's set 2 eyes with the probe's Left eye and Right eye calibrations, or our tracker's eyes as they come. Without per-eye calibrations, or with --source, it keeps the older one-source path. A pointer nudge finds its look from the raw gaze the helper echoes back; with our tracker it goes to fe-trackd as a click. The bias leans instead of choosing (gazecal.EyeWeights): on 306 live clicks the eyes' errors partly cancelled, both together 0.65 deg off against 0.96 and 1.11 for either alone. Left or Right counts that eye twice; auto weights each eye by its RMS miss at its last 20 nudges, since the calibration's fit picked the wrong eye on SteamVR's test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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c2e5e861c8 |
Show floating windows as panels of their own
ft-screens makes a panel for each spare output (frametop.float.N), hidden until ft-floatd floats a window on it. The panel shows only the window's rectangle of the buffer at the density of the screen it came from, its popups and dialogs get small panels over it, pressing its title bar carries it while KWin's pointer stays put, the corner tab resizes the window in pixels, and two more buttons close it and put it back on the desktop. The session adds FLOAT_SLOTS spare outputs to KWin and starts ft-floatd; ft-layout arranges only the screens' outputs, and the pointer helper treats the new panels like screens. Not yet tried in the headset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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9c04207bb9 |
Let the pointer pass through panels you pick, like a performance overlay
A head-locked performance overlay kept catching the 3D mouse. It has no
input method, so SteamVR's laser passes through it, but the helper hit
tests every visible overlay with ComputeOverlayIntersection, and the dot
stuck to it whenever it crossed that corner of the view.
POINTER_IGNORE in frametop.conf now lists overlay keys the helper leaves
out of the collision, comma-separated shell patterns, so "vendor.app*"
covers a whole app, including panels it opens later. The laser starts
just before the cursor point, so an ignored panel nearer to you doesn't
catch it either.
Frametop Input Settings has a new Ignored panels page. It asks the
helper for SteamVR's overlays ("overlays", answered from the list's
thread once vrcmd has run again, even while the pointer is off), groups
them by app, and has a checkbox per panel and one for the whole app.
Frametop's own screens aren't offered, since ignoring one would leave
nothing to click the app on with the mouse. Entries for apps that
aren't open are listed so they can be removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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89522e1894 |
Let Flatpak apps save and upload files in the desktop
The file picker hands a sandboxed app the host path of the document portal, which the desktop's private runtime directory moves to $runtime/doc. Inside the sandbox that path is an empty private folder, so Brave finished downloads into it and they were lost when the session cleaned up. Link it to /run/flatpak/doc in each installed app's runtime folder before Plasma starts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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b99fb97f32 |
Turn the displays off while the headset isn't used, and keep it awake on a charger
A display mount that covers the proximity sensor makes the headset seem worn, so SteamVR never turned its displays off and they stayed on all night. The new power service, ft-powerd (frametop-power.service), goes by use instead: after DISPLAY_OFF_MIN minutes in which the headset and controllers didn't move and no input device was used, it turns the backlight off, and the next movement or input turns it back on. The new Power tab in Frametop Display Settings sets that time and has a Stay awake while plugged in switch. The switch sets Steam's own "When Plugged In and Idle -> Sleep after" to Never through Steam's UI, so the Frame stays reachable remotely while the power button still works. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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0857a54fab |
Don't let resting controllers take the laser from the mouse
A controller released the 3D mouse's pointer on a single pose sample faster than 0.35 m/s or 2 rad/s, once the mouse had been still for 500 ms. The helper polls about every 8 ms, so one noisy sample was enough: a knock on the desk, or a tracking jump when the headset's cameras pick a resting controller up again (#1). A controller now has to stay over the limit for 100 ms in a row, and only samples with a normal tracking result (Running_OK) count. The new POINTER_CONTROLLER_PICKUP setting (1 by default, 0.5 to 5) scales both limits; it's a slider on the Pointer page of Frametop Input Settings and applies live. A controller picked up for real still gets the laser back through SteamVR's hand role, which follows its touch sensors. The release log now records the speed and spin that triggered it, to tune the default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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0d50efec45 |
Map the Frame controllers' buttons; make gaze clicks correctable
The Frame controllers aren't input devices on the host, so the pointer helper reads them with SteamVR input (vrbuttons.h, actions/), one action set per button, and sends presses to the relay, which does the mapped action like for a mouse button. Only mapped buttons are taken, at an overlay-global priority (SteamVR's experimental "Enable global input from overlays"), and only outside games unless In games is on. Frametop Input Settings gets a Controllers page to map them. Gaze mode: a left press while the gaze has the pointer isn't sent at once. The pointer stops, you drag it onto what you meant with the button held, and the release clicks there; a press held still for POINTER_GAZE_HOLD (0.5 s) becomes a real press, for drags. The dot shows only while the mouse moves it (POINTER_GAZE_SHOW), while a press is held, and as a pulse per click. Outside games the pointer stays on while gaze mode is on. ft-gazed takes a third of each lesson's offset instead of all of it: in the first live test one 6 degree lesson moved everything and put the next target 7 degrees off. Frametop Input Settings gets a Gaze page. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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10f21273a6 |
Add gaze mode to the pointer: it goes where you look
MAGIC pointing (Zhai et al. 1999), off by default: with POINTER_GAZE=1, "gaze on", or a button mapped to the new gaze_toggle action, the cursor ray is the corrected gaze from ft-gazed while the gaze has the pointer. Moving the mouse takes the pointer from where the gaze left it; looking more than POINTER_GAZE_RETAKE (5 deg) away with the mouse still gives it back. The pointer is aimed at the gaze, never steered toward it, and only fresh gaze moves it, so a stopped service or a blink leaves it where it is. A mouse nudge of up to POINTER_GAZE_NUDGE_MAX (8 deg) before a click is sent to ft-gazed as a lesson in the eye tracker's error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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9addd8c669 |
Move the head-follow cursor only after the head passes the leash
Easing the reference toward the head all the time moved the cursor on every small head movement, so a cursor parked in a corner of the view drifted. Now nothing moves while the head stays within the leash. Once the head has been past it for POINTER_LEASH_DELAY (0.2 s, so a glance out and back doesn't count), the reference eases all the way to where you face (POINTER_LEASH_RETURN) and the cursor lands back in its place in the view, then the leash waits again. Leaning inside the leash no longer moves the cursor either. Leash 0 stays head-locked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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9f4b61729d |
Settle head follow back on where you look; let the mouse reach 70 degrees
The leash only moved its reference when the head reached the leash's end, so after turning back it sat up to the leash off, and recentring meant overshooting with the head. The reference now eases toward the head's facing (POINTER_LEASH_RETURN, 0.2 s) and never lags more than the leash, so the cursor settles back to its place in the view once the head stops. The mouse can now move the cursor up to POINTER_FOLLOW_REACH (70 degrees) from the middle of the view, up from a fixed 40. Both are sliders on the Pointer page. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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137705cbfd |
Add head follow: the pointer comes along when you turn your head
Off by default. With POINTER_FOLLOW=1 (a switch on the Pointer page of Frametop Input Settings, or a mouse button mapped to Head follow on/off), the cursor rides on a reference direction leashed POINTER_LEASH_DEG (10) from where you face. Within the leash it stays put in the room; past it, it turns with your head and keeps its offset. A leash of 0 locks it to your view. Head roll is ignored, the cursor stays within 40 degrees of the reference, and it holds still in the room while the left button is down so the head can't nudge a click or a drag. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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8f051db083 |
Send typing to the panel clicked last
An ungrabbed keyboard reached both sides at once: gamescope, which in VR reads every input device itself (the SteamOS build's InputStealer), typed into its focused app, and ft-screens typed into the desktop. Space in the desktop paused Spotify on the dashboard, including every space frame-voice dictated. And while the SteamVR dashboard was open, the desktop got no keys at all. Typing now follows the last click. ft-screens sees clicks on its own screens; the pointer helper reports the panel under the dot on each mouse press, so a click on any other panel sends typing to Steam. While typing goes to the desktop and the screens are showing, ft-screens tells the relay every second, and the relay grabs pass-through keyboards. A grab waits until no key is down, and the relay lets go if ft-screens stops reporting. Controller clicks on other panels aren't visible to overlay apps, so they don't move typing (noted in the README). A program that reads every keyboard for a hotkey loses a grabbed one. Repeating the keys on another input device doesn't work, since gamescope reads that too, so with SHARE_KEYS=1 the relay sends them to @frametop_keys as datagrams with the device name. It's off by default: any local process that binds that name first would get every key typed into the desktop. The docs now say gamescope reads keyboards and the headset's buttons itself; they said SteamVR passed keys on to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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de2823c360 |
Turn off the Meta tap dashboard shortcut by default
A Meta tap on a pass-through keyboard toggled the SteamVR dashboard, which got in the way of using Meta on its own. It's now off unless META_DASHBOARD=1 is in ~/.config/frametop.conf. Meta as a modifier (Meta+Shift+R, Meta+Shift+H) is unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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bc74097331 |
Fix the installer; start the desktop without the Steam client's environment
install.sh: a comment with an apostrophe inside a single-quoted command (from the distrobox pin) ended the quote and broke the script at step 1. The VR launcher started the desktop with the Steam client's environment, including LD_LIBRARY_PATH to Steam's runtime, whose libavcodec has no H.264 decoder: VLC in the desktop couldn't play most videos. The session script now drops the client's variables before starting anything, so apps use the system's libraries and codecs. The README and the installer now recommend setting Steam's Sleep after (When Plugged In and Idle) to Never; Steam suspends the Frame after an hour otherwise, even while charging. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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4d845492e7 |
Let the headset sleep with the helper idle; keep the container out of our units
With the pointer released, the helper still listed overlays by running vrcmd every second, a new SteamVR client each time, which kept SteamVR from going to standby. The list now pauses while the pointer is off. Starting the dev container from one of our services made that service own it, so stopping the service stopped the container and the desktop's compositor with it. scripts/container-up.sh starts the container in a systemd scope of its own before every distrobox enter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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DeeJanuzandClaude Opus 5.5
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d439bc3f25 |
Frametop: a multi-screen desktop and universal 3D mouse for the Steam Frame
Several KDE Plasma screens floating in SteamVR, each a real monitor of any resolution and shape, shown by our own compositor (ft-screens), with a layout, wrist pinning, and visibility modes; a Bluetooth mouse that drives all of SteamVR as a room-anchored 3D pointer (input relay, ft-pointer helper, ft_pointer SteamVR driver); two settings apps; and Bluetooth LE fixes. Installs on the headset with ./install.sh. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |