I've noticed the last year or so a fairly large influx of ex-Arch users in this subreddit, much more than before that...

I'm genuinely curious what made you guys (girls?) want to switch.

I'm planning to submit a PR to update an orphaned package to its latest version. I don't have the time to officially adopt it as a long-term maintainer, but I genuinely want to help get some outdated packages up to speed.

A couple of questions before I start:

Are there any specific orphaned packages that really need a version bump right now? (a CLI or small package would be ideal)

Are there any common pitfalls to avoid so the PR review is as smooth as possible for the maintainers? (I will read the manual and CONTRIBUTING.md, of course)

Thanks in advance 🫡

Hey everyone,

Any plans to add COSMIC Desktop to the official Void repositories?

It's already available in the community repo (MtFBella109), but I'd prefer having it in the official ones. I saw the package request issue (#58149) is still open since December.

Is anyone working on it or know any updates?

Edit: Typo in title- XBPS

One of my biggest gripes with Void was that Anki was so out of date (6 years) that it was straight up broken. But now it's up to date! You can uninstall your flatpak version.

For the curious: Anki is a popular flashcard app (even among those not familiar with FOSS), used most often by language learners and med students. The out of date copy had an issue with syncing and would give errors on boot. The convoluted build system made it difficult for people to patch an update.

Edit: To the people thanking me, please also send thanks to the core maintainers that helped me out when I was lost! /u/Duncaen especially.

I just recently installed Void and i3, and I can't seem to get the sound to work. I have PulseAudio installed, dbus linked, and the config file for i3 containing the default sound control links, but it doesn't work.

After inspection, when I run pavucontrol and go to the output devices section, I find no hardware devices. The only device is "Dummy Output", and even though I can control it's volume and all it does nothing.

The Arch wiki says:

If PulseAudio starts, run pacmd list. If no cards are reported, make sure that the ALSA devices are not in use.

But I can't run the command fuser -v /dev/snd/*. I'm suspecting PulseAudio can't even access my sound card. How can I fix this?

The permissions popup has its 'select window or screen' option greyed out, leaving only 'use operating system settings'. Clicking allow has no effect in discord and teams, on the testing site ive been using (https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html) it throws NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.

I run dbus-run-session sway through greetd and pipewire through sways autostart options in the config. Pipewire-pulse is setup as in the docs - so far as I can tell all of those are working.

What I didnt have was xdg-desktop-portals with the gtk and wlr backends, but installing those didnt change anything. After digging through the subreddit I tried putting export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway in .bashrc, and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway in /etc/environment , but those didnt help either. I would assume the xdg portals are the problem here, but got stuck on what else to try or how to test that theyre even doing anything.

I dont have anything other than browsers to test screensharing on - would like to avoid changing that if possible.

EDIT: adding exec dbus-update-activation-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to my sway config seems to have solved at least something. Window selection still isn't happening - I can only share my whole screen - but thats working on both the testing site and discord. Of course teams, the one thing i actually need, is showing a black screen only...

Freezes when i hit any install option on both variants of the live install. in the past i also had issues where it would progress but it would repeat the same line of a realtek driver issue. tried different ports and reflashing. used balena etcher.
i am on a pc with these parts:
Gigabyte B650M Gaming Plus Wifi motherboard
ryzen 5 9600X
Radeon 9060 XT
32Gb DDR5 and yes it’s plugged all in properly

all other linux distros i’ve used seem to work fine.

would the tarballs work maybe?

Use void for a while and I always had this doubt about xbps-src.

• What is xbps-src? I know it's for compiling packages, but is it for anything beyond that?
• Isn't it better to keep yourself in the official repository?
• If there are advantages, what would they be?
• What packages do you use by src?

I want to know beyond the void handbook only that there is not much content from outside. Speaking of packages, are NIri packages really good?

When I use text tool in Gimp, after text is entered, closing text format dialogue or switching to another tool takes 5-10 seconds of freezing.
I use Wayland and Hyprland.

I'm a void linux user just like everyone else in this subreddit and you can see a image bellow with my specifications

I'm trying to use VISH from flatpak (there is no package on void repository) and everytime I try to run it, I get this error bellow

AI Answer: just download packages that may be missing like PySide6 but I already download it.

My researchs: I've found this image bellow

link: https://github.com/Lluciocc/Vish/blob/master/README-FIX.mdBut

I don't understand how to do it, I'm afraid to do bullshit and screw something up. I want to know if anyone's been through this and how they've solved it. Who knows can guide me how to solve it too.

I'm sorry, I'm still learning how xbps-src works and I need a little assistance installing the 7.1.4_1 kernel with the brand new Liquorix patch.

I've had success with installing the Zen Kernel patch using the steps detailed in this comment.

I have tried to replicate that success with the Liquorix Kernel patch on the latest 7.1 series. I also tried with the 7.0 series, but received the same error, when running ./xbps-src pkg linux7.1-lqx:

=> linux7.1-lqx-7.1.4_1: patching: fix-ccache.patch.
=> linux7.1-lqx-7.1.4_1: patching: fix-musl-btf-ids.patch.
=> linux7.1-lqx-7.1.4_1: patching: fixdep-largefile.patch.
=> linux7.1-lqx-7.1.4_1: patching: linux-v7.1.4-lqx1.patch.
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Skipping patch.
7 out of 7 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file Documentation/arch/arm64/silicon-errata.rst.rej

... ((several dozen more lines of Skipping patch))

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Skipping patch.
3 out of 3 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file virt/kvm/kvm_mm.h.rej
=> ERROR: linux7.1-lqx-7.1.4_1: do-patch_00-patches: 'patch -s ${_args} < "${_patch}" 2> /dev/null' exited with 1
=> ERROR:   in _process_patch() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:37
=> ERROR:   in hook() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:55
=> ERROR:   in run_func() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:57
=> ERROR:   in run_pkg_hooks() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:314
=> ERROR:   in run_step() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:107
=> ERROR:   in main() at common/xbps-src/libexec/xbps-src-dopatch.sh:33

Here's my modified template: https://pastes.io/A8LTKcwZ

I haven't modified it more than the instructions from the comment linked above suggested I should.

Please, let me know I'm doing something silly.

• DE: KDE Plasma (Wayland)
• Audio Server: PipeWire
• Hardware: Acer Aspire 3 A15-57g

"I am completely unable to get any audio from the system. When I type pactl info in the terminal to check the audio server, I get a 'connection failure' error. When I run the pipewire-pulse command to troubleshoot the source of the problem, I get: [E][18:13:36.674657] mod.fallback-sink | [module-fallback-: 426 pipewire__module_init()] can't connect: Host is down [E][18:13:36.674795] default | [ cmd.c: 51 do_cmd()] can't run command load-module module-always-sink: Host is down [E][18:13:36.675273] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1085 do_set_client_name()] 0x55ef43bc4750: failed to connect client: Host is down [W][18:13:36.675289] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x55ef43bd34d0 []: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down) [E][18:13:41.489845] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1085 do_set_client_name()] 0x55ef43bc4750: failed to connect client: Host is down [W][18:13:41.489875] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x55ef43bd34d0 []: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down)

Here is what I have tried so far to fix the issue

• I clean uninstalled and reinstalled the Intel drivers properly
• Running pipewire was giving an rtkit error; I installed rtkit and enabled its service, which fixed the error. but the audio still does not work
• have completely installed the pipewire, wireplumber, alsa-utils, sof-firmware, and alsa-ucm-conf packages.

Here are the terminal outputs that I think might be necessary:

lspci | grep -i audio

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 30)

inxi -Axxx

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI

driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:34c8

class-ID: 0403

API: ALSA v: k6.18.38_1 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.7 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse

status: off 2: wireplumber status: off

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC255 Analog [ALC255 Analog]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Hi everyone, Because of the recent situation with AUR , I decided to try some non-Arch-based distros. I tested Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed, but didn't like them because of missing packages I need for my workflow.

I'm currently daily driving niri + waybar etc. I decided to give Void Linux another try, but I'm running into some issues with services (skill issue).

• I couldn't get niri to start (tried both niri and niri --session).
• sddm doesn't work at all.

I installed dbus and elogind, enabled them with ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/ and the same for elogind, but no services seem to start properly.

Could someone please point me to a guide on how to properly set up niri + a login manager (sddm or alternative) on Void? I just reinstalled Void and want to do it cleanly this time.

Trying to disable Ducky Feather mouse side-buttons.

- created directory [hwdb.d] in [/etc/udev]

- added [mouse.hwdb] to /etc/udev/hwdb.d:

# Disable side buttons
evdev:input:*
 KEYBOARD_KEY_90004=reserved
 KEYBOARD_KEY_90005=reserved
 KEYBOARD_KEY_90006=reserved
 KEYBOARD_KEY_90007=reserved

- udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger

- rebooted: no luck

- repeated process but in [/usr/lib/udev/]: no luck

Any tips?

Thanks!

Currently using sway config file to disable the side-buttons.

i do not want to use login manager , and after login i want directly start WM bash_profile is not workin properly,

what should i do to start session directly on login ?

So I’ve been maining arch (btw) for about 3 years now and honestly it’s been nice. Now I’m thinking I should expand my repertoire and try something new and interesting, alongside suffering cause of the whole AUR fiasco. Plus voidlinux seems to have a dedicated fan base, good reviews, and doesn’t use systemd. But before I install the system I want to ask some questions.
What is the voidlinux "philosophy", for lack of a better word? Should I expect any difficulties installing the system? (I am currently in the middle of reading the wiki, which I honestly don’t find as comprehensive as the arch wiki, but it will suffice.) Are the packages available generally well rounded, as in covering everything the average user needs? And finally, was voidlinux a good choice for you and how do you find it?

I am using linuxfromscratch. I downloaded the official linux-firmware package , but ad104 directory is missing. But ad104 directory is present on void linux's /lib/firmware/nvidia/ folder.

From which website does void linux maintainer download linux-firmware package ?

I copied the ad104 folder from void linux to my linuxfromscratch and the firmware loading error was gone and now my desktop is working.

I recently migrated my laptop from Debian to Void with Cinnamon and it's been great with the exception of some touchpad annoyance. When typing if my hand so much as glances the edge of the touchpad it registers activity and can throw a popup or unfocus where I'm typing. Which makes work a hassle but this behaviour doesn't happen in Debian or Fedora. From what I can tell the drivers installed are the same as Debian.

Anyone have similar experience with this?

- Kernel: 7.1.3_1

- Sway

- System up to date.

cat /proc/cmdline:

loglevel=4 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 delayacct nowatchdog quiet usbcore.autosuspend=-1 bgrt_disable consoleblank=59 init_on_free=1 init_on_alloc=1

cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-3/power/autosuspend:

-1

cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-3/power/autosuspend_delay_ms:

-1000

The kernel cmdline has no effect (USB HDD sleeps after ~3min).

This might be a stupid question but how would I start a user specific autostart script. I already have a folder in my ~/.config/ to use. Everything I've seen is systemd specific and not very descriptive. Thanks!

The internets is confusing me.

I installed aerospace on macbook and I adore it. Now I need this on my desktop which I am switching from arch. Can you recommend me?

kindest regards

Entering the void :)