From d7bb612677ecfcbb0d1cba1e6e21dbad6e4005a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ducoterra <git@ducoterra.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:31:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] switch to steam flatpak for gaming server

---
 .../graduated/manjaro/gaming_server.md        | 42 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/infrastructure/graduated/manjaro/gaming_server.md b/infrastructure/graduated/manjaro/gaming_server.md
index a0023ca..aade7c4 100644
--- a/infrastructure/graduated/manjaro/gaming_server.md
+++ b/infrastructure/graduated/manjaro/gaming_server.md
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ Host gamebox2
 ## Basic Apps
 
 ```bash
-pacman -S vim
-flatpak install io.missioncenter.MissionCenter
+sudo pacman -S vim
+sudo flatpak install io.missioncenter.MissionCenter
 ```
 
 ## Install Sunshine
@@ -62,34 +62,42 @@ systemctl --user disable --now sunshine
 sudo flatpak uninstall --system --delete-data dev.lizardbyte.app.Sunshine
 ```
 
-## Install Steam
+## Steam
 
-<https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#multilib>
+Play games.
 
 ```bash
-pacman -S steam
+sudo flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam
 ```
 
-1. Settings -> Autostart -> Add New -> Steam (Runtime)
+## MangoHud
 
-### mangohud
+<https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud?tab=readme-ov-file#flatpak>
 
-Start steam with mangohud
+Pretty Numbers for your Games.
 
 ```bash
-sudo pacman -S mangohud lib32-mangohud
-cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
+sudo flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud
+flatpak override --user --env=MANGOHUD=1 com.valvesoftware.Steam
+
+# Allow flatpak apps to read Mangohud config
+flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-config/MangoHud:ro
 ```
 
-Edit ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
+Edit `~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf`
 
 ```conf
-Exec=/usr/bin/mangohud /usr/bin/steam-native %U
-```
+## pre defined presets
+# -1 = default
+#  0 = no display
+#  1 = fps only
+#  2 = horizontal view
+#  3 = extended
+#  4 = high detailed information
+preset=2
 
-```bash
-mkdir ~/.config/MangoHud
-cp /usr/share/doc/mangohud/MangoHud.conf.example ~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf
+## Enable most of the toggleable parameters (currently excludes `histogram`)
+# full
 ```
 
 ## Snapshot
@@ -106,4 +114,4 @@ zfs snapshot $ZFS_VOL@manual-$(date --iso-8601)
 zfs list -t snapshot $ZFS_VOL
 export ZFS_SNAPSHOT='enc1/vms/Gambox1-z4e0t@init-no-drivers-2025-03-03_05-35'
 zfs rollback $ZFS_SNAPSHOT
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```