- uninstall: nix-installer's copy outside /nix is made and run as root
(a user-writable copy run by sudo could be swapped); README uninstall
paragraph shortened to one account of what happens when Nix stays.
- session.nix: the restart-check activation after steamFrameUserServices,
so the latter's comment is above it again.
- install.sh: a duplicate `local` in port_listening; comments.
- docs/cleanup.md: the installer internals of --clone (how an existing
clone is recognised, which git) and restart-check (what it compares,
test overrides); README keeps the usage.
- README install paragraph: shorter list of the dashboard patches.
nix-installer uninstall failed at `systemctl stop nix.mount` ("Job
failed") while programs started from the Nix store still ran: a terminal
session's tools, or apps that mapped Home Manager's mime.cache.
- Before nix-installer runs, after Home Manager is gone, uninstall scans
/proc for the user's processes whose exe, cwd, root, an fd or a mapped
file is in /nix, and lists them by name and PID (the shells it was
started from included; itself, its subshells and its curl | bash
pipeline skipped). Close them and press Enter to re-check, or abort;
with --yes or without a terminal it stops: "close these or reboot, then
run uninstall again". Nothing is killed (replaces the old kill prompt).
- nix-installer runs from a copy outside /nix.
- cleanup check H: a fake /proc (STEAM_FRAME_NIX_PROC) with programs from
the store stops before Nix; without them Nix is removed.
docs/pet.md (usage, configuration, how it works), docs/pet-models.md
(the model spec), the README's feature line, options, changes outside
Nix and Credits (Toon Cat FREE and Tuxedo Cat, CC-BY 4.0; Quaternius
Shiba Inu and Fox, CC0), the cleanup artifact, the layout and runtime
names, and the template.
Steam keeps VR screenshots (Steam button + trigger) in
~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<account ID>/760/remote/250820/screenshots,
where Dolphin, Gwenview and the file pickers don't look.
screenshots (module screenshots, opt-in) links ~/Pictures/<name> (default
"SteamVR Screenshots") there. The account ID comes from steamUserId, or,
unset, at runtime: the Home Manager link points to
<runtimeDir>/steam-frame-nix/screenshots (tmpfs), which the oneshot user
service steam-frame-nix-screenshots points to the account last logged in
(loginusers.vdf MostRecent, else latest timestamp, else the only userdata
folder), on switch, at login and when loginusers.vdf or userdata changes.
install.sh cleanup knows the tmpfs link (--keep screenshots while used).
Flake checks: account detection on fake Steam dirs; cleanup of the link.
steamFrame.launchers.<desktop ID> takes the app's own entry (a Flatpak's
export, a Nix package's or a host file) and rewrites only its command lines
(hostEnv, env, flatpakArgs, args, wrappers) and the keys asked for
(mimeTypes, defaultFor, settings), so name, icon, translations and actions
stay the app's and follow its updates.
- Package entries are rewritten at build time; Flatpak/host file entries at
runtime by steam-frame-nix-launchers into
<session.runtimeDir>/steam-frame-nix/applications (tmpfs), on switch, at
login and when Flatpak installs/updates apps (path unit); the Home Manager
links point there.
- keyring.{enable,electron} replaces steamFrame.keyring.{flatpaks,programs}
(clean break: the old options fail with the new form).
- Firefox's launcher is the Flatpak's entry with the profile wrapper in
front (no --profile for the profile manager); Jellyfin's hardware
decoding sets flatpakArgs and env.
- cleanup --all removes the tmpfs entries.
- Check on copies of the real Element, KRDC, Firefox, gedit, Jellyfin and
Claude entries, quoting and generator behaviour.
README keeps intro, feature list linking docs/, install, two sessions,
usage, the complete options table, changes outside Nix, rollback,
uninstall. Each feature's details (problem, what you get, configuration,
limitations, how it works) move to its own page in docs/; docs/dashboard.md
is split per feature and docs/changes-outside-nix.md becomes
docs/cleanup.md.
Pierre Kisters