bbwrapper

BlackboxWM wrapper for standalone applications in Steam Deck Game Mode

The scripts in this repo are intended for use with a Steam Deck when running a utility like PulseAudio Volume Control as a non-Steam game because god forbid they add a per-game volume slider to the game mode UI.

Basically with my setup I sometimes have Wayland-native shit running like Waydroid and since we've decided that this piece of shit joke of a desktop specification is the best goddamned thing since sliced fucking bread and by we I fucking mean GNOME and their GTK toolkit, because bullshit built with GTK WILL AUTO-FUCKING-MATICALLY SELECT THE ACTIVE WAYLAND SESSION THAT BY NO MEANS IS EVEN RELATED, breaking my Waydroid session and causing me to lose a battle in my South Korean-produced anime boobies RPG because my touch is fucked up because pavucontrol thought it was a great idea to fucking molest my viewport by selecting this unrelated session

Okay, so I don't care about your fuckin' story, how do I use this shit?

1. Clone this repo some-fucking-where
2. Mark bbwrapper.sh, launchme.sh and xinitrc as executable (chmod +x {})
3. Install blackbox window manager

• You should already have Xephyr and xinit but I use Bazzite instead of SteamOS sooooooo

4. Edit launchme.sh and change /usr/bin/pavucontrol -m to whatever program you need to run.

• IF YOUR PROGRAM LAUNCHES ANOTHER THREAD (as in you run /usr/bin/bla, the shell returns to a prompt and your application opens without the terminal's involvement) THIS WILL NOT WORK.