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diff --git a/desktop/modules/status/README.md b/desktop/modules/status/README.md index 87654d5..e043dcd 100644 --- a/desktop/modules/status/README.md +++ b/desktop/modules/status/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ # status Desktop modes as state: `dnd`, `presentation` and `nolock`, owned by the -`Status` singleton and stored as files under `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. +`Status` singleton and stored as files under `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. A fourth, +`status.gaming`, is written only by the shell's game detector; it is not a +mode `statusctl` exposes. ## The files are the interface $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/status.dnd $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/status.presentation $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/status.nolock + $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/status.gaming Each holds `0` or `1`; a missing file means off. That directory is tmpfs, so a reboot resets every mode and there is no cleanup code. A shell restart does @@ -95,6 +98,29 @@ toward `activeCount`: a running daemon is not a mode the user switched on. The daemon's own configuration lives in `~/.config/breaktimer.conf` and is not edited from here; `breaktimer.sh config` prints what is in effect. +## Game detection + +Presentation is set automatically while a game runs, so a fullscreen game does +not get locked or interrupted by the idle timer, DND or breaktimer. The shell +polls every five seconds for a `gamescope` process or a running Steam binary, +and either one is enough: + + pgrep -x gamescope || pgrep -f 'steamapps/commo[n]' + +The steam pattern is bracketed so it cannot match the check's own command +line: `pgrep -f` reads the whole argv, and a literal `steamapps/common` would +match the `sh` running the check and report a game forever. + +The result is written to `status.gaming`, a file separate from +`status.presentation`, and presentation is the OR of the two. That separation +is the point: a game ending clears only the gaming half, so a presentation the +user set by hand survives for the whole game session instead of being clobbered +on exit. It also means presentation cannot be turned off by hand while a game +runs, since `status.gaming` holds it on until the game exits. + +`status.gaming` is never set by `statusctl`; the detector owns it. The effects +are unchanged, because they key off the combined `presentation` value. + ## Waybar `custom/presentation` reads `statusctl presentation watch`. It replaces |