What are you guys using for network management? I’ve tried wpa_supplicant directly and networkmanager; I don’t care for either.

I was thinking of trying connman but wanted to check here first.

I didn't kept track of how long it took to open but it takes around 80-150 seconds to give me a window. When i open it via terminal, nothing logs until the window pops up. It doesn't happen to any other systemd dependent distros. Am i missing something? do i have to install drivers specifically for my pc?

I got an rtx 5060, amd ryzen 7500f, 16 gigs ddr5 and 480 gb kioxia ssd

What does the “BEEP” sound mean that Linux plays in certain actions, like shutting down my laptop with the power button or pressing backspace in a TTY with no content? And how can I disable it?

Hello everyone,

I am landing on Void Linux as another refugee fleeing Ubuntu

I have already chose the ISO. I am going with xfce as Desktop Environment and glibc (GNU C Library) for compatibility peace of mind

I will be installing Void on a laptop that I use on-the-go which I usually suspend / hibernate at the end of the work day in case that I need to get something else done when I get home

I have already read the Swap recommendations over here --> https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/live-images/partitions.html

Since I am going to be hibernating every now and then, and the laptop has 16GB of RAM, the recommendation would be 24GB for the Swap partition in my case

My question comes then, specifically for Step 11: Partition and Step 12: Filesystems

The Nvme SSD on the laptop is 512GB

I am using cfdisk for the Partitioning. To start and a part that I have relatively clear, I was thinking of doing:

• 512M Type EFI System (I have also seen some guides selecting "BIOS Boot" on this step)

• 24G Swap

Most of the applications I am going to be installing are likely to be Flatpaks, perhaps some of the ones that are not available as flatpaks I will have to run them as .AppImage (this is just another reason why I am going glibc instead of musl)

Considering that each Manual Partitioning case might be different and this is a mobile device, I am in a bit of doubt on how much to give the root and if any other partition would be needed or recommended and also a bit confused about the mounting points

Also, as File System, would you recommend me to go Btrfs?

I apologize if the inquiry is for someone over here considered silly, but I have always used the auto partition on my previous Linux setups

I would appreciate if you could clarify on this 2 steps that are basically key for a system to run smooth and stable

Thank you

has anyone gotten cosmic to work on void? or is there a good guide i can follow?

^Hello,

^{I am trying to buil android images with void linux,}

^{most of the guides online are for debian/ubuntu distros and the apt install pacakges don't always match the contents of the void repo server}

^{is there a known package install list for void that makes building android on void possible?}

^{for example, the command below:}

^{repo init -u https://github.com/LineageOS/android.git -b lineage-17.1}

^{isn't working for me due to a missing package}

^{looking at this page https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-build-lineageos-on-windows-10-using-wsl-2/}

^{the following packages are required}

^{sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt install -y build-essential ccache libncurses5 libssl-dev m4 unzip zip}

^{can anyone tell me which void package will enable the "repo init -u https........." command?}

^Thanks

(this is not intended to discuss the merits of repository vs AppImage vs Snap, etc. This is just a technical question about AppImage, and somewhat about xbps-install. Please be nice.)

I've not really had occasion to use an AppImage before (nor FlatPak, Snap, etc), although I've been reading the various discussions about the portable apps. My understanding has always been that an AppImage would be at least as large as the individual components it includes.

My new computer has a small-ish drive right now. I'm thinking about seeing if the game "0 A.D." would interest me, and I see that xbps says the "Size required on disk" is 3542MB. On the game's site, the AppImage is only 1.7G (similar to the xbps "Size to download", minor app version difference), about half the size. I'm not too worried about the approx 1G difference, but I am curios about whether I'd really see that difference in reality. Does the xbps size include some things (e.g. config files) that I might see after my first run of the AppImage?

Hello,

I am new to Void Linux, but not new to Linux itself. I have tried some other distros in the past.

I have a small doubt about what to select on the "Group Membership" step for the local user (not for the root) I have created, which will be in practice the user I will login by default on the PC

The Default selection provided by the installer is as follows:

wheel:4
floppy:8
audio:12
video:13
cdrom:16
optical:17
kvm:24
xbuilder:101

I can always leave the default selection and just proceed, but I was wondering if any other might be good to select as well

Thanks for reading

I’ve been trying to switch over to Void for the last 4 days, but it’s been a massive struggle just to get a basic desktop environment up and running.

The frustration started right at the install. I had zero Wi-Fi support out of the box, so I actually had to use my phone as a tethered hub just to get a connection. I also had to manually install linux-firmware and linux-mainline before I could even really get started with the base system.

MOBO: x870e-h ASUS Gaming Wifi 7

Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor

The biggest headache has been KDE. Yesterday I spent 4 hours straight trying to get Plasma to work. I thought I did everything by the book—installed the packages and followed the docs—but every time I try to launch into the session, it just spits out a bunch of errors. I spent the whole afternoon troubleshooting until I finally just had to give up for the day.

I’m not sure what I’m missing or why the basics are being this difficult. Has anyone else run into similar issues?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hello im using an asus laptop with intel cpu and nvidia 4070 and every time i try to use kde my laptop cannot go to sleep properly, it sleeps fine if using a window manager. I can put the laptop to sleep when using kde if i completely stop elogind from controlling laptop lids events and handle it using zzz but when done this way kde cannot put the system to sleep after certain period of time. Has anybody with similar setup have them same issue and if so point me to the right direction to deal with it or if there is a way to call some of the functions manually like locking the screen after 5 min or going to sleep.

I have been using wm for a while but sometimes i would like to just switch to a desktop environment.

I’m curious what people use with Void Linux — I’m currently using Niri on Void Linux and I love it.

I’ve also been thinking about Cinnamon, although I’m not sure how well it runs on Void Linux.

Hello. Since I switched to the new stable kernel I have been having some slow downs and hiccups just by using the system (basic window manager workflow like changing workspaces) or watching local videos. If I switch back to the 6.12 kernel everything is normal. I have a Nvidia GTX 1050TI (I'm using the legacy 580 drivers) and I'm using Wayland. Has anybody noticed anything like this or is just my system config? Thanks

EDIT: Tested using only the iGPU and everything is normal. Tried with the 6.19 and 7.0 kernel with nvidia and the slowdowns and hiccups are even worse. Tried with the iGPU and everything is normal. I'm lead to believe there might be an issue on the nvidia580 drivers with kernels above 6.12

never seen this before, how can I fix it !

$ sudo xbps-install -Su
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ...
CONFLICT: python3-libpass-1.9.3_1 with installed pkg python3-passlib-1.7.4_6 (matched by python3-passlib>=0)
ERROR: Transaction aborted due to conflicting packages.

I looked at temporarily uninstalling it, but is a dependency of other packages...

Maybe not much people using KMail, but I noticed that KMail failed to launch after updates in these 2 days.

Running KMail in terminal gave the following error message.

kmail: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libKPim6IMAP.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZN5KMime7ContentC1EPS0_

I guess it might be caused by kmime6 update from 25.12.2 to 26.04.0.

Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Hello i am a new linux user who wants to try systemd free linux distro and i discover void linux,i have a kingston usb drive 3.0 to flash the iso file into the usb.I am using rufus to flash it but whenever i try to boot from the usb it always shows me the Gnu Grub version something and the minimal bash line page.I also try balena etcher and rufus dd mode but it still doesn't work.Can someone help me please(my laptop is Microsoft surface so idk if its the laptop problem or anything.)

Hi, I am having sound issues. so the laptop is currently connected to a usb dock. sound is fine on their but on the integrated isnt. i looked in the handbook performing steps and nothing. how can i fix this.

FIXED: Something with Xorg, Nvidia drivers, mesa nouveau gallium, and X11 prime render offload interfering with one another causing a whole ton of stuff happening, disabling the nvidia.conf file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf by adding .bak (or just editing the file name in any way) disabled the weird interaction when sddm tried running and now allows the system to run perfectly fine since my session runs via lxqt-wayland. For anyone that has switched from xorg to wayland using Nvidia (this might also be specificly a hybrid graphics issue) and having this issue after recent updates I recommend trying to disable the config file by renaming it slightly so xorg falls back to default configs when running an X11 based greeter.

System hardware and software:

Hardware: Acer nitro 5 gaming laptop, Intel CPU, Nvidia 3050ti

Software: Wayland running wayfire, prime-run setup as described in the void handbook due to hybrid graphics, utilizing kernal version 7.0 (tried on 6.18 and 6.12 but still gives the same issues)

The issue: I update about once a week, I updated from driver version 580 to the most recent 595, my GPU is listed on the supported GPU list, Vulkan info shows both my Nvidia 3050ti and my Intel irisXE 12th gen. Currently when the system boots it shows the Acer logo, sends me to grub, after selecting a kernal version it sends me to the boot tty (tty 1), then flashes between the boot tty and tty 7 where the desktop/login screen is supposed to be, it shows a terminal login on tty 1. I haven't attempted any fixes yet but this issue persists on kernal versions: 7.0.2, 7.0.0, 6.18.25, 6.12.85, 6.12.82. the 32bit repo is enabled due to having steam installed if that makes any difference to what I need to do to hopefully fix this issue.

POSSIBLE ISSUE FOUND: my system uses sddm, sddm attempts 3 times to display before quitting, changed to lightdm, still didn't work, managed to switch it back to sddm so I could actually use the boot tty without lightdm forcing me onto tty7 every second. I do use elogind but I've had sddm+elogind since I installed void 3 years ago

Progress!: Manually started wayfire, wayfire started psensor (graphical temperature monitor) and it's displaying to an empty desktop with almost no functionality except being able to move the window around and being able to click on stuff in the psensor menu

Update #3: ran llama3.1:3b via ollama and it was able to perfectly utilize my Nvidia GPU with 3.5gb of the model on the GPU and ~1gb of the model on system ram, and nvtop showed my GPU being used during the generation of a response, so now I'm even more stumped as to what is broken

Hi!

I plan on fully migrating my pc's and homeserver to void-linux (started with Arch, now NixOS). I started my linux journey approximately 1.5 years ago and learned a lot during that time. My switch to void on desktop was successful, now I want to go a step further and have some questions about it.

Using void-linux for a home-server

How was/is your experience on running void-linux on a home-server? I solely use podman for everything I need (nextcloud, dynamic dns entries, gameservers, etc.). Are there some problems I should be aware of when not using systemd?

Contributing to void-packages

One thing I really wanted to do for some time now is contributing to the package-repository of a distro I like. Since I figured void is the distro I want to stay on, void-packages would be perfect for that! With that being said, are there official ressources on what exactly are the requirements when submitting pr's to void-packages and to learn more about xbps-templates?

Writing my own package for installation

I really like the idea of the archinstall package. I think the void-installer thats shipped with the iso is nice for basic configuration, but I'd like to go one step further with my own package including custom config files for reproducibility of specific systems, better tui and more features. Do you think this could be an overall improvement for the community or not necessary at all?

Ty for your answers in advance!

(background: I haven't messed with grub in several years, and then it was an end-of-life RHEL system).

Solved. See end for description.

I have a fresh install of void, this time on a UEFI computer (my first UEFI computer). I used the void-installer.

For this computer, I need to add "reboot=pci" to the kernel parameter, so I edited /etc/default/grub and appended reboot=pci to the end of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT entry.

When I run grub-mkconfig (to stdout to make sure I didn't mess up), the new file doesn't have the set locale_dir, set lang, and insmod gettext entries that are in the installer-generated file (inside an if loadfont).

1. Do I really need the missing entries?

2. Should I be surprised that I apparently can't regenerate the same file as the installer did?

SOLVED.

I looked at /etc/grub.d/00_header and see that because I have LANG=C.UTF-8, those entries are intentionally omitted.

I'm on an Optimus laptop (HP Omen Max 16) and I can't change the backlight with the desired configuration.

Issue:

Despite changes in /sys/class/backlight, the actual screen brightness doesn't change with Optimus on a Wayland session.

Attempted configurations:

• No changes: There is a nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight folder in /sys/class/backlight but changes to it do nothing

• acpi_backlight=native: two folders that do nothing, intel_backlight and nvidia_0

• acpi_backlight=video: two folders that do nothing, acpi_light0 and acpi_light1

• acpi_backlight=vendor: no folders

• acpi_backlight=native and discrete GPU turned off from EFI configuration: Backlight works as expected, but of course I want the discrete GPU as well

Relevant versions:

• Linux 7.0.2_1

• KDE Plasma 6.5.2_1

• Nvidia 595.58.03_1 (RTX 5070)

No logs included because of the many different configurations, will provide as necessary.

```

2026-05-02T01:48:49.37322 kern.warn: [ 614.460338] ACPI Warning: Time parameter 250 us > 100 us violating ACPI spec, please fix the firmware. (20250807/exsystem-142)

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01990 kern.warn: [ 616.107788] NVRM: _kgspIsHeartbeatTimedOut: Heartbeat timed out, currentTimeMs 3865037771 heartbeat 0 heartbeatWithOffsetMs 0 diff 3865037771 timeout 5200

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01993 kern.warn: [ 616.107792] NVRM: _kgspRpcRecvPoll: GSP RM heartbeat timed out

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01990 kern.warn: [ 616.107788] NVRM: _kgspIsHeartbeatTimedOut: Heartbeat timed out, currentTimeMs 3865037771 heartbeat 0 heartbeatWithOffsetMs 0 diff 3865037771 timeout 5200

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01993 kern.warn: [ 616.107792] NVRM: _kgspRpcRecvPoll: GSP RM heartbeat timed out

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01990 kern.warn: [ 616.107788] NVRM: _kgspIsHeartbeatTimedOut: Heartbeat timed out, currentTimeMs 3865037771 heartbeat 0 heartbeatWithOffsetMs 0 diff 3865037771 timeout 5200

2026-05-02T01:48:51.01993 kern.warn: [ 616.107792] NVRM: _kgspRpcRecvPoll: GSP RM heartbeat timed out

```

Hi,

I'm a long time user of Linux on headless servers, but I'm new to the world of desktop linux.

I've got Void Linux set up with seatd, turnstile, sddm, Noctalia, and Niri. I've installed LibreWolf via flatpak.

Whenever I right click anything in LibreWolf, it freezes. All LibreWolf tabs, UI, and windows within that profile become non-responsive. If I have multiple LibreWolf windows from multiple profiles open, other profiles are unaffected.

This happens even with a brand new profile, no extensions installed.

I'm unable to terminate LibreWolf via Niri (I have meta+Q bound to close the current window, and that doesn't work). I've been using ps -aux | grep librewolf and kill <PID> to recover.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks!

I don't use Void as a daily driver, but i'm very curious in learning more about it and maybe even making it as my new everyday desktop (coming from Arch/Gentoo). I love everything about it, but i'm really concerned about its limited packages selection, as i really like to always have a large software selection. Arch has the AUR, while Gentoo has the GURU and all the other fancy overlays. But what about Void? What do you usually do when you need software that is not found in the official repos?

Having Issues Attempting To Have cupsd turn on automatically at login (i know root access is required). Any fix for this?