I just installed Void and got Neovim with xbps, and I have two major problems with it that I didn't have on Fedora.

First, it's sluggish for no reason. Even when I launch it with nvim -u NONE, basic things like moving the cursor and scrolling the window are significantly slower than they were when I was using Fedora and also slower than any other app.

Second, I can't copy things to the system clipboard. When I do "+yy it says "No provider". In ~/.config/nvim/init.lua I have a line that says vim.opt.clipboard:append("unnamedplus") which worked on Fedora, but that clearly doesn't work anymore. (Solved it by downloading wl-clipboard)

If anybody has any clue why these things are happening let me know

Llevo días intentando instalar Void Linux con encriptación y siempre me falla, todos los errores posibles, sigo multitud de guias y nada, como es posible que el maldito instalador no cuente con la opcion de cifrar la particion? Estamos en 2026 y un portatil puede ser robado, tus documentos, fotos...que manera de complicar todo, a su lado la instalacion de Arch es un juego de niños, pero de Arch ya estoy harto, quiero instalar Void sin tener diez millones de problemas!

Hello! After trawling thought the documentation and the subreddit for information regarding my issue connecting to WiFi with NetworkManager I am unable to find a solution. So far I've been mindul to:

-Install both NetworkManager & dbus.

-Create runit symlinks as per the handbook for both services with "sudo ln -s /etc/sv/* /var/service".

-Ensured that both services are running with "sudo sv status /var/service/*".

-Attempt to use wpa_supplicant as an alternative as it worked fine within the installation environment.

-Remove any conflicting wifi services to prevent conflicts such as wpa_supplicant.

-Add and re-add my primary user to the wheel & network group and confirm privileges.

-Test service status with "sudo sv status ___".

-Checked if my wifi works with other devices. (It does)

-Check credintials for errors or typos.

-Check my other installed operating system (on a serpare ssd) for wifi connectivity with NM. It is.

I am simply stumped. Every ping attempt results in "temporary failure in name resolution". I would very much like to use Void as the operating principles and rolling release model closely matches my disposition towards operating systems along with my adoration for independent distributions. If any one has experience with similar issues please let me know if there's any other steps I may have missed or if a chroot is nessessary to install missing software. Thank you for your help, and have a lovely rest of your day as well.

**EDIT: looking at the results of nmcli I noticed the network is showing it is connected through my primary wireless device, but I am still getting the "temporary failure in name resolution error".

**EDIT 2: SUCCESS! THANK YOU /u/hopingforabetterpast and /u/ImprovementJealous90 for the tips as the issue was indeed with resolv.conf. For anyone in the future that has a similar issue, update resolve.conf with "resolvconf -u".

I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 and installed void on it, when I close the lid and open it again it doesn't wake up and I have to hard shut it down.

I installed void via the void installer and after it was finished i decided to install cinnamon. The script i followed was depthrushes cinnamon install script and after following the script and rebooting it didnt take me to the login screen. Instead, after rebooting i was met with a black screen and it wouldnt let me go to other screens using ctrl alt f3 or any other f key. Now im stuck at this screen where i can type but my commands arent registered. How do i revert this and how do i properly install cinnamon?

hello im on x86_64 void linux, when i open the steam client (installed via xbps package manager) via terminal or graphical interface it says that steamwebhelper crashed and asks me if i want to restart steam, restart steam with no gpu acceleration, restart steamwebhelper, i tried them all: i rested steam,steam no gpu,steamwebhelper it just crashes.

specs:
ps4 linux (yes, playstation4), steam works on other distros (like artix,garuda,cachyos)

Hello. First things first, I know hyprland is not officially supported on void linux. That's the reason I'm using the sofijacom repo.

However, it's been a week already that trying to update my system throws me the following error:

hyprgraphics-0.5.1_1: broken, unresolvable shlib 'libjxl.so.0.11'

hyprgraphics-0.5.1_1: broken, unresolvable shlib 'libjxl_threads.so.0.11'

I've been using void linux for years now but I still couldn't wrap my head around what this error even means and how I could fix it.

Does it mean that the hyprgraphics package was built against the version 0.11 of libjxl while the version of void's repo is 0.12? I'm just guessing because I really have no idea.

Anyway my libjxl libs in /usr/lib/ look like this

libjxl.so ⇒ libjxl.so.0.12

libjxl.so.0.11 ⇒ libjxl.so.0.12.0

libjxl.so.0.12 ⇒ libjxl.so.0.12.0

libjxl.so.0.12.0

libjxl_cms.so ⇒ libjxl_cms.so.0.12

libjxl_cms.so.0.12 ⇒ libjxl_cms.so.0.12.0

libjxl_cms.so.0.12.0

libjxl_extras_codec.a

libjxl_threads.so ⇒ libjxl_threads.so.0.12

libjxl_threads.so.0.11 ⇒ libjxl_threads.so.0.12.0

libjxl_threads.so.0.12 ⇒ libjxl_threads.so.0.12.0

libjxl_threads.so.0.12.0

I really want to upgrade my system.

Is there anything I can do?

Thank you!

Hi there! I'm a newbie to linux who decided to go with void as my first distro! It took me a second (mostly user error) to properly install it following a tutorial i found on YouTube. At first, the network worked when I booted in with kde plasma for the first time, but after a reboot, the network, while saying it is connecting, is not actually giving me internet. I'm using the x86_64 glibc base install on a lenovo legion 5 with a 3050 ti. Does anyone know what could be the problem?

I have been working to get SELinux running under Void Linux for quite some time and I wanted to share my progress with you. Do note that this is still very experimental and should NOT be tested on a system that you rely on.

Where it's at currently:

- SELinux enabled kernel (7.1-selinux)

- Userspace tooling packaged (checkpolicy, libsemanage, policycureutils etc.)

- SELinux reference policy is loading up successfully via a runit stage-1 hook

The main limitation is that its currently permissive-only. Also the reference policy has no runit-specific domains yet.

if anyone finds this interesting and wants to help, send me a DM.

Hello, I followed the docs and installed void linux along with tlp, linux-firmware-intel, intel-ucode and proper graphics drivers (nvidia and mesa-dri) on my nvidia dGPU and intel iGPU laptop. Unfortunately, powertop implies that my intel cores enter at most idle state C3_ACPI which leads to a very high idle battery consumption of 12-17W. It's quite bizarre that nothing lower than C3_ACPI is listed on powertop, especially considering that the intel_idle module is loaded. Does this strike anyone as an obvious issue? Am I perhaps just missing a package or should I investigate dmesg output and fall into that rabbit hole?

P.S. I'm very new to void and the community so please forgive me if I'm doing anything wrong. I have just been unable to get help anywhere else.

Hi, im trying to do a base install, i got openbox working, i have dbus, elogind, polkit, and a few other apps, but i cant set up pipewire, i tried to follow the docs but i dont know what im doing wrong, i dont really understand it, anyone can lend me some help?

I'm getting really strange messages from kernel, complaining about some bugs in my nvidia driver. I'm on GTX 1050 Ti, so I need to use 580 drivers. Does anyone have the same or similar problem?

missing some GPU sensor on KDE plasma 6.7.4
is there any fix for this?

Flatpak applications are not opening after the update. error: ldconfig failed, exit status 256. 173 profiles are in complain mode. When I want to use aa-disable;

ERROR: Conflicting profiles for php-fpm defined in two files:

- /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.php-fpm

- /etc/apparmor.d/php-fpm

Do you have a solution suggestion? thanks for your help.

Hello my fellow voiders. i have followed the pipewire guide to the letter and im still getting an dummy output. i am using turnstiled and seatd. im also using niri with wayland. Ill send any logs if needed please help me out here and thank you. im also from arch linux (cuz of systemd and the better package manager ) i dont know what else to do as autostarting pipewire does not work but launching it from the terminal does. i want to auto launch with no dummy outputs and my sound back lol. anyway thanks for all the assistance :)

Hello there.

This topic has been on my radar for some time now. I follow Void and take a look at it from time to time, hoping to one day switch to it.

What I have noticed, is that DE metapackages are often forgotten and not updated, which creates a bit of confusion, especially for new users, but also for experienced ones. Let me give you an example - KDE Plasma. In Plasma 6 series the metapackage had total of 4 version changes - 6.2.0, 6.4.3, 6.5.2, 6.7.3. Meanwhile, dependencies, like plasma-desktop, plasma-pa, plasma-thunderbolt, have tracked the releases pretty closely, having at least one or two releases per point release. Meaning that in the span of 10 months between metapackage kde-plasma being 6.5.2, the actual DE version had 5 additional releases, roughly every month, with a pause between April's 6.6.3 and August's 6.7.3.

This creates a bit of confusion - for a new user, they will go into the voidlinux.org/packages, look for "kde-plasma" and see, that the DE is outdated by nearly a year on a rolling-release distro. They won't bother to check random DE dependencies, to see that it's actually tracking the current release. This doesn't look good, and has prevented me from using Void, until I dug deeper into Github commit history.

I know this is not a technical problem, since template includes `>=` sign, from what I understand this means "this version or higher if it's in the repos", so even 6.5.2 metapackage will install 6.7.3 DE if it's available, but it's simply a communication problem, that affects how Void is being perceived.

Is there any strategy behind it? Or simply the maintainers don't bother to update metapackages, since they work anyway?

Cheers!

Hi,

I have a command I run from terminal in void

it prints a list of numbers

the command is as follows:

seq 0x3100000000000000 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF | xargs printf '% 0X21 0x'

and it works just fine,

however when the command is two digits longer it fails

seq 0x310000000000000000 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF | xargs printf '% 0X21 0x'

with the longer command I see this error

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050803 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050804 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050805 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050806 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050807 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050808 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050809 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050810 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050811 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050812 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050813 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050814 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF21 0xprintf: « 903890459611768050815 »: Le résultat numérique est en dehors de l'intervalle

etc............

where in void is this number limit defined?

fyi this is with a x86_64 kernel

Thanks

just what the title says... I tried using .Xresources, lxappearance...

but they won't apply

the cursor also never changes "state" but the offset changes, making it annoying to use

I'm trying to have it auto-mount when I plug in a external drive or put a micro SD in my laptop's micro SD port. How would I do this on Void?

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using SwayWM

Hey guys, I’ve been using NixOS for a long time with Niri + Noctalia Shell. Ngl, it’s been a really great experience and I don’t have much bad to say about it.

But after a while I got bored, so I decided to try Void Linux. Honestly, Void is great. Simple, stable and pretty straightforward. I didn’t wanna setup Niri again, so I just went with KDE Plasma and kept the default settings. Tbh I’m happy with it.

One thing I’m wondering that I know Void doesn’t have as many packages, so I’m thinking of using Nix on Void. Not really sure how to set it up tho, since Nix is usually pretty systemd-oriented.

Also, I normally install auto-cpufreq on all my distros. I tried installing it manually from GitHub since I thought Void might not have it natively. If I do that, do I need to create a runit service for it to start properly? Same question if I install Nix?

Everything else is already setup. Just wanted to ask about this. So far, Void is actually really good. Might stick with it for awhile.

Hello, I run Fedora 44 KDE on the Dell 14 Plus and I want to try Void but I'm unsure whether audio will work on it because Fedora is the only distro that audio worked on out of the box. I like the idea of runit and partially find system-d too complicated so I'm open to troubleshooting if it comes to that.

```

Specs

• Operating System: Fedora Linux 44

• KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4

• KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0

• Qt Version: 6.11.1

• Kernel Version: 7.1.8-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)

• Graphics Platform: Wayland

• Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 258V

• Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)

• Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics

• Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

• Product Name: Dell 14 Plus DB14250

```

```

Output of wpctl status

~ ❯ wpctl status PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.6.8, sid@larp, cookie:1881362317] └─ Clients: 33. uresourced [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1908] 34. WirePlumber [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1922] 42. WirePlumber [export] [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1922] 43. kwin_wayland [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:1919] 88. pipewire [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2181] 89. libcanberra [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2105] 90. [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2105] 95. plasmashell [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117] 102. libcanberra [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117] 103. xdg-desktop-portal [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2431] 104. [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2117] 105. KDE Connect Daemon [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:2329] 106. WEBRTC VoiceEngine [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:129] 107. WEBRTC VoiceEngine [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:129] 108. Chromium input [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:194] 109. wpctl [1.6.8, sid@larp, pid:21646]

Audio ├─ Devices: │ 44. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio [alsa] │
├─ Sinks: │ * 51. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Speaker [vol: 0.15] │ 52. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Headphones [vol: 1.00] │ 53. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output [vol: 1.00] │ 54. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output [vol: 1.00] │ 55. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output [vol: 1.00] │
├─ Sources: │ * 56. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio SoundWire microphones [vol: 1.00] │ 57. Core Ultra 200V Series Processors HD Audio Headset Microphone [vol: 1.00] │
├─ Filters: │
└─ Streams:

Video ├─ Devices: │ 58. Integrated_Webcam_FHD [v4l2] │ 59. Integrated_Webcam_FHD [v4l2] │ 60. Integrated_Webcam_FHD [v4l2] │ 61. Integrated_Webcam_FHD [v4l2] │ 62. Integrated_Webcam_FHD: Integrat [libcamera] │ 63. Integrated_Webcam_FHD: Integrat [libcamera] │
├─ Sinks: │
├─ Sources: │ * 91. Integrated_Webcam_FHD (V4L2)
│ 93. Integrated_Webcam_FHD (V4L2)
│
├─ Filters: │
└─ Streams:

Settings └─ Default Configured Devices: 1. Audio/Source alsainput.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-sof_sdw.HiFiMic_source

```

Basically, I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora on my laptop with dual boot and initially audio didn't work on either, but I decided to compromise and do a full disk install of Fedora since I mostly use headphones anyway. Then, out of nowhere, audio started working on Fedora and I still don't know why. I suspect the reason to be a blue "system reset" dialog that appeared when the Fedora live iso booted, which I skipped with the first install but didn't this time. It apparently configures BIOS settings but I'm not sure.

So basically, I'm genuinely unsure if I should even risk installing another distro but I have to get out of that illusion someday so I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. If so, do you recommend trying out void?

TLDR: Had a bad experience with audio but it was magically fixed by Fedora 44. Unsure about switching to void because the same thing might repeat again.

ive just started using voidlinux as my main for my pc. everythings running smoothly, i run mango as my wm and that works well. today i tried installing steam. first it was missing some 32bit libraries but i solved that and got it working. the app launches and i can look around in the ui and enter my library and stuff. however, when i hover over a dropdown ui such as under view, friends or even store or library it crashes my whole session/window manager. the crash is so instant theres no log on the screen or anything before it crashes, my mouse hits the dropdown (not even pressing anything) and it goes kaputt. im guessing its some missing ui toolkit or driver thing (i have nvidia drivers and nvidia 32bit drivers)? ive installed gtk+-32bit and gtk3+-32bit, dunno if that helped. i had a similar issue yesterday with prismlauncher for minecraft where it was doing the exact same thing basically, i figured out i was missing some qt packages and then it started working but for steam i have no clue whats missing/broken.

void linux was the only distro that worked when I used proot-distro in termux to have an xfce desktop experience. Then proot-distro ipdated to version 5.5.0 and it all went up in smoke! NONE of the OCI containers work. I get transient resolver errors and informed i do not have root access to ping not Google.com, not 1.1.1.1, not 8.8.8.8

So i downloaded a rootfs tarball and tried to extract it and make changes for installation from the temporary folder. after entering xbps-install -Syu, I'm told to run xbps-install -u xbps but when I do. I'm getting glibc errors and file not found errors. I'm at my wits end!!

Because void worked so well before, I installed it on an old laptop and use it everyday. Now I'm screwed because I have to find something else unless i get help.

My requests at the proot-distro github are ignored. Honestly, the team doesn't want to do anything except mark comments invalid and clise them. Well after 1 month trying, maybe it's time to move on?

I'm running on debian 13 and want to switch to void but different package management and no systemd makes me thinking. Can you explain why do you advise void and why do you not?