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Geechan
Any thing that asks for root can use sudo instead
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
this
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
decky should already be configured for it too
A
Aru
decky should already be configured for it too
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
right
, no root account on SteamOS
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
there
's no decky loader plugin that needs that
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:39 PM
root
? there
's a bunch of decky plugins that require root perms
, but decky supports the use case
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
and the plugin needs to specify that it requires root
A
Aru
root? there's a bunch of decky plugins that require root perms, but decky suppor...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
root perms
, not a root account
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
there
's no root account on SteamOS so no decky plugin requires a root account
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
oh yeah
A
Aru
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
no root account needed
G
Geechan
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:40 PM
Having a root account feels so antiquated now
G
Geechan
OP
•
4/23/24, 3:41 PM
At least for desktop Linux
S
Smabe
•
4/23/24, 3:42 PM
so If I was a dummy and made a root account whats the correct way to remove it without breaking stuff
?
C
Cardiac
Only Starfield and Dragon's Dogma 2 are significantly behind.
S
Shiina
•
4/23/24, 3:43 PM
I have the opposite with starfield lol
K
Kyle Gospo
root perms, not a root account
P
PacoA
•
4/23/24, 3:47 PM
Ok
, will take a look then
A
antheas
•
4/23/24, 3:51 PM
I want to say that creating a root account is essentially setting a root password
. So you just remove the password of the root account
But I know the set up script has gotten confused and ran as the root account multiple times
A
antheas
•
4/23/24, 3:51 PM
I don
't think you can remove the root account
A
Aru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VTBWH6mXA
H
HikariKnight
•
4/23/24, 4:18 PM
i am surprised
, he read our documentation on stream
!
I
iMartyn
•
4/23/24, 4:20 PM
passwd -l root
passwd -l root
locks the root account
, that
's basically what most modern distros do
.
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:22 PM
I have a question
: HDR seems to be broken in current Testing
-40
H
Heero
I have a question: HDR seems to be broken in current Testing-40
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:23 PM
what hardware
?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:23 PM
Anyone already knows about this
?
K
Kyle Gospo
what hardware?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:24 PM
Desktop PC
, AMD 7900XT
, Ryzen 7600x
(though this isn
’t important
)
. Running at UHD at a Samsung s95c
, 60
-120hz doesn
’t fix it
, Also deactivating vrr
H
Heero
Desktop PC, AMD 7900XT, Ryzen 7600x (though this isn’t important). Running at UH...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:25 PM
you might want to test against stock fedora
, we aren
't shipping our own kernel yet so this is 100
% stock
& upstream behavior
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:25 PM
that you
're seeing
K
Kyle Gospo
you might want to test against stock fedora, we aren't shipping our own kernel y...
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
I didn
’t use gamescope
-Session yet and fedora 40 worked fine
H
Heero
I didn’t use gamescope-Session yet and fedora 40 worked fine
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
yeah
, no clue then
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
we aren
't modifying KDE or the kernel
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
HDR is untouched from Stock F40
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
and already confirmed working on our testing builds
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:26 PM
Yeah that
’s why I
’m confused too
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:27 PM
HDR does work
, that
’s correct
.
it
’s just not working correctly
. Example
: activating hdr in gamescope
-session works
, starting a game deactivated it though
.
H
Heero
HDR does work, that’s correct. 🙂 it’s just not working correctly. Example: acti...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
are you using proton experimental on that game
?
K
Kyle Gospo
are you using proton experimental on that game?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
Oh could be
… need to check
. Doesn
’t fix gnome displaying hdr
, but could fix hdr in gamescope
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
GNOME has no HDR support what so ever
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:28 PM
so that
's expected
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
oh weird
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
that looks like it
's trying to display in HDR
?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
unless the contrast is just really blown out
K
Kyle Gospo
GNOME has no HDR support what so ever
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
I know
. But it
’s active
, that
’s why it
’s completely broken in colours
K
Kyle Gospo
that looks like it's trying to display in HDR?
H
Heero
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
No you
’re right
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
Just a minor thing
,
@Kyle Gospo
, but still better than having it broken
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/1006
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
huh
, definitely don
't have that issue on my OLED right now
. How weird
R
RodoMa92
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/1006
K
Kyle Gospo
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
can you do this against testing and not main
?
K
Kyle Gospo
can you do this against testing and not main?
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:29 PM
Yeah
, sure
H
Heero
Click to see attachment
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:30 PM
I have this quite a lot of times on my LCD with sending HDR without color compensating on my monitor
.
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:31 PM
The deck thinks it
's not sending HDR
, but it is for the panel
.
R
RodoMa92
•
4/23/24, 4:31 PM
This only happens on gamemode tho in my experience
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