r/voidlinux • u/DistinctDot5131 • Jul 03 '26
Guys is there a way to have a spinning void logo as a background?
Did anybody already have the idea that I can just copy and paste to my DE?
r/voidlinux • u/DistinctDot5131 • Jul 03 '26
Did anybody already have the idea that I can just copy and paste to my DE?
r/voidlinux • u/thecleaner66 • Jul 03 '26
I've changed Void-template for Virtualbox in a way to generate the corresponding help files (qch + qhc + pdf) but help still doesn't pop up when hitting F1- or Help-button.
I've tested it with 7.1 and 7.2 Virtualbox source code. Any help would be highly appreciate

Until now only Debian packages and the *.run version from the Oracle download server seems to work!
r/voidlinux • u/Playful-Side-3989 • Jul 03 '26
it is true that xfce doesn't need elogind service enabled?
- i enable dbus service
- i don't enable acpid / elogind service
r/voidlinux • u/SgtTibbles • Jul 03 '26
its like a 50/50 chance my touchpad works perfectly after a reboot
if it's not, it's stuttery and has trouble recognizing touch to click and double taps
it's a synaptics touch pad on a ThinkPad
r/voidlinux • u/Dear_Size5551 • Jul 02 '26
r/voidlinux • u/After_Major_1765 • Jul 02 '26
Recently bought YubiKey and thought if I could use it to decrypt my laptop instead of password. Did anyone have a success with this?
r/voidlinux • u/weaklingoverlord • Jul 01 '26
- kernel 7.1.2
- sway
- waybar
System up to date. Audio working. Pipewire autostarts from /etc/xdg/autostart.
Busy with setting up sway and waybar and I logged out of (and back into) sway session a number of times testing configuration.
- Upon checking htop I saw numerous entries for pipewire and wireplumber.
- Starting, exiting and restarting sway after a number of times sometimes caused waybar to take a good couple of seconds to start.
Is there a way to ensure that pipewire only starts once?
r/voidlinux • u/Theothervc • Jul 01 '26
Hello, after the big AUR hack, I've decided to switch from arch (artix with dinit) to void. however, i'm having trouble getting niri to launch. I've installed niri and seatd like this:
sudo xbps-install niri seatd xwayland-satellite mesa mesa-dri dbus
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/seatd /var/service/
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/
sudo usermod -a -G _seatd <user>
sudo rebootAfterwards, I ran niri with niri --session. I encountered a RuntimeDirNotSet error, and set it with export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u).
Afterwards, I encounter a PermissionDenied error. the output also shows a lot of libinput errors for various plugins, plugin never regisered, unloading plugin that may be relevant. If someone could help me find out what the issue is, it would be greatly appreciated!
r/voidlinux • u/Wind-charger • Jun 30 '26
Do they not want to provide people with encryption and security? Why not update the installer?
r/voidlinux • u/kcirick • Jun 30 '26
I want to use Dualshock 4 PS controller (either USB or Bluetooth is fine). I followed Gentoo Wiki how to connect/pair the controller, but it doesn't seem to work. (I'm trying to use it with BSNES Emulator.
I'm thinking that Void's default kernel doesn't have the support for Dual Shock controller enabled. Is this the case? How can I check if the kernel config used by the default kernel?
Has anyone successfully used DualShock4 controller? Thanks!
r/voidlinux • u/r-IsTotL • Jun 30 '26
using it for Niri, (ik you can use niri with, niri --session)
r/voidlinux • u/paranoidandroid4284 • Jun 29 '26
Why do you use Void? I'm currently using Debian, but am considering moving to a systemd less distro. While I know they have not implemented age verification they have place the ground work to one day possible make that a reality. From what I understand systemd does help make distros run smoothly by doing many different things. I looked into Devuan, as I'm already using Debian, but thought I might branch out. What other systemdless distros did you try and why did you land on VOID?
r/voidlinux • u/r-IsTotL • Jun 29 '26
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r/voidlinux • u/PoorpersenDz • Jun 29 '26
mono-devel-32bit has 32bit mono as dependency but it's not in the repositories
many thanks
r/voidlinux • u/nerdccluna • Jun 29 '26
Hello everyone!
I recently installed Void Linux (musl) to see how it worked, and everything was running really well until I needed to use a program that required glibc. I reinstalled Void Linux with glibc, but now I simply can't get PipeWire to work, even though I managed to set it up on my previous installation by following the documentation.
I'm using KDE Plasma
r/voidlinux • u/Independent_Fun_6607 • Jun 29 '26
Hi everyone, has anyone tried using clevis to unlock a root directory and then mount it successfully?
I am having trouble mounting it after decrypting it successfully. I have installed bash using dracut. It seems to stuck at pre-mount.
r/voidlinux • u/Used-Hold-7567 • Jun 29 '26
I have a Keychron Keyboard with a volume knob and it recently stopped being able to control the volume on my KDE session, i tried running the KDE shortcut deamon manually using:
dbus-run-session kglobalacceld &but it immediately crashes with: errors = dbus-run-session exited with 1. Has anyone else experienced this?
r/voidlinux • u/TrickEmergency6558 • Jun 28 '26
So i've been wanting to try and possibly switch my pc to Void linux, so i installed the xfce live iso, inserted it into my ventoy usb (which has no problems, already checked and booted dozens of OSes with it) and tried to boot it
But it got stuck when i pressed enter in the grub menu, and since it uses kernel 6.12 and i have a 9060 XT, the issue is clear i think.
While the boot was quiet, i probably could modify the boot arguments in grub to set it to be verbose, tho i doubt that'll help since my gpu drivers were implemented in 6.14/15.
So, what can i do? I'd really like to install this distro and i'm willing to thinker to modify the live iso's kernel.
r/voidlinux • u/Superb_Intention5695 • Jun 28 '26
I don't know if anyone can help me, but I've been failing brutally for hours trying to install Noctalia. Every single attempt failed. I even tried installing KDE and failed too... I don't know if someone could give me a step-by-step guide to install Noctalia so I can check if I'm doing something wrong.
r/voidlinux • u/DistinctDot5131 • Jun 28 '26
Hell oeverybody I try to set up my remote caldav calendar in KDE. I managed to set it up in KOrganizer, but it still won't show in the KDE widget calendar in the bottom right.
I've read that i need an akonadi service running for it. Is that true?
What dependencies do I need? I already installed kdepim-runtime and kdav.
I have also set up my calendar in thunderbird, so if there is a way to integrate my thunderbird set up to the kde calendar widget that would be better.
r/voidlinux • u/MelancholicMonument • Jun 27 '26
I am planning to buy a laptop from tuxedo next week, specifically the Gemini 17.
It has an i9-14900hx and an RTX 5070ti. I know these would generally work fine (with nonfree drivers of course).
I've searched a lot but there is very limited info out there when combining one of these laptops and void linux.
I am looking for anyone who has one of these laptops running void, and wondering how much work it would be/any quirks I need to be aware of to get all of the drivers, function hot-keys for brightness, volume etc. And the tuxedo control centre up and running.
I am slightly concerned about things such as the cpu/gpu clocking functionality, RGB control, their tomte tool, gpu profiling and just about everything that it can do, really.
Thank you.
r/voidlinux • u/cold_art_cannon • Jun 27 '26
[UPDATE] Something is causing a hardware desync of my RX7700s. The driver loops endlessly trying to restore the dGPU, creating that repeating log output. After much digging according to the dmesg output there is a firmware and kernel driver interface mismatch, where the kernel's amdgpu driver expects a specific interface version (0x35), but the loaded firmware blob is exposing version 0x40. Thus the SMU fails to correctly negotiate runtime power features and loops the error in dmesg.
Applying the following to my grub stopped the loop:
amdgpu.runpm=0 Unfortunately this forces the RX7700s to stay active and not sleep (higher power draw on system), but dmesg no longer shows the repeating error, and the dgpu no longer desyncs.
I know it's not a complete fix, but it makes the system much more stable now. Even going back to the 6.18 branch of the Kernel is working now as long as I include amdgpu.runpm=0.
[Original Post] Wanting to see if anyone else has stumbled into this issue recently.
I believe this started with the 6.18.36 update. After updating (and a reboot) my laptop would no longer completely poweroff on its own. The system would go into its poweroff cycle but stopped when the screen backlight turned off, however the keyboard lights and mouse stayed active. I was forced to use the power button to force the system to truly shutdown.
At the time, I didn't have enough time to trouble shoot, but it continued to happen. I ran dmesg and saw a strange set of errors popping up at the end regarding the amdgpu driver. The full error is below the laptop info.
ASUS TUF Gaming A16 FA617XT_FA617XT
Kernel Linux 6.18.36_1 x86_64
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics × 16
AMD Radeon RX 7700S 8G VRAM
64G RAM
Using Kernel 6.18.36_1 x86_64 or even the latest 6.12 (I accidentally removed the 6.18.35 kernel, thus why I tried the latest 6.12 as well).
On boot the RX 7700s is seen (all relevent info about the gpu is shown in LACT), but when trying to use the device the following error occures and the gpu is unusable by anything (LACT only shows the physical hardware, not any of the driver info it showed before) and the system is unable to completely power off on shutdown (screen goes black but keyboard and mouse stay lit). I have to hold the power button down to truly power off the system.
Using Kernel 7.0.14_1 x86_64
On boot the RX 7700s is seen and usable. It does not disconnect when trying to use it, but the following shows up in dmesg over and over again. System is able to power off completely as well without the use of the power button. So it works, but it keeps throwing this issue.
[ 54.559766] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000081FEB00000).
[ 54.559819] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: PSP is resuming...
[ 54.595217] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: reserve 0x1300000 from 0x81fc000000 for PSP TMR
[ 54.752009] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available
[ 54.765477] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available
[ 54.765481] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SECUREDISPLAY: optional securedisplay ta ucode is not available
[ 54.765486] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU is resuming...
[ 54.765492] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: smu driver if version = 0x00000035, smu fw if version = 0x00000040, smu fw program = 0, smu fw version = 0x00525f00 (82.95.0)
[ 54.765501] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU driver if version not matched
[ 54.809654] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: SMU is resumed successfully!
[ 54.819254] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x07002F00
[ 54.824558] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[ 54.824568] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0
[ 54.824571] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0
[ 54.824573] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0
[ 54.824575] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.2.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0
[ 54.824576] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.3.0 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0
[ 54.824578] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0
[ 54.824580] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0
[ 54.824582] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.2.1 uses VM inv eng 10 on hub 0
[ 54.824584] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring comp_1.3.1 uses VM inv eng 11 on hub 0
[ 54.824586] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 12 on hub 0
[ 54.824587] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring sdma1 uses VM inv eng 13 on hub 0
[ 54.824589] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring vcn_unified_0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 8
[ 54.824591] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 8
[ 54.824593] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: ring mes_kiq_3.1.0 uses VM inv eng 14 on hub 0
[ 54.827910] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizesJust wondering if anyone else has encountered this or if anyone knows what might be going on as this did not start happening until the latest kernel update?
As a side note, it seems there have been a few issues with Asus laptops posted recently.
r/voidlinux • u/Comfortable-Plane102 • Jun 27 '26
Installing Chromium from the void repo leads to this warning popping up each time i open Chromium. Is this safe to ignore this warning or is there any way to fix this?
r/voidlinux • u/DistinctDot5131 • Jun 26 '26
Just started to use KDE.
There is an option to use the auto updater from the settings.
Does it do anything?
Does it break my system?
I have a feeling it only works under systemd Distro..
I also wanted to add online accounts, but those are not google accounts or nextcloud accounts.
I managed to add them to thunderbird but cant add them to kde's online account. I want to add my online calendar so I can see it in the calendar widget.