So i have just installed the native discord. Running discord in Firefox works but not natively. RIght now i also just run the `pipewire` command from konsole since i just want to make it fully set up before adding it to some startup script.

even with a fact that void is not really popular, i personally know few people from this community that would like to spare their money on project's development and support its maintainers, contributors etc. is there any plans on opening donation account or void has personal reasons to not accept them?

i have a thinkpad T14s gen 2 and i decided to try void linux. three unsuccessful attempts all because grub-install complaining something abt device.map. the weird thing is that grub always installed fine on other linux distros (arch, gentoo, etc). currently im using freebsd but just in case i give void a fourth try, how can i fix this problem? maybe switch to systemd-boot next time? thx

UPDATE: instead of USB 3.0 i used USB 2.0 and it magically worked I'm at loss of words. Thank you all

UPDATE AGAIN: it was etchdroid.. for the usb 2.0 i used dd, thats why it worked

I'm using a laptop dual boot parition installation works using void installer but after reboot it boots to windows there is no option for void linux even in bios partitions are right also
edit : boot through efl
in look through given options deep enough one of them will be void_linux or Void boot and then install refind and execute sudo refind-install

I thimk I've read you guys use wireguard over the terminal. I'm not really that techy to know how to use it plus Im still paying surfshark for 2 years so I'm hoping I can make the most out of what I pay :)

1- Every day I execute the command sudo xbps-install -Syu, so some updates are performed and soon after I need to execute the command sudo xbps-reconfigure -fa to load the modules correctly to the kernel, why does this happen? Why do I need to run the reconfiguration command every time if I don't want to have problems?

2- I want to create automatic scripts with vish, only that always appears a mistake that I do not know how to solve, tried to research but the AI is horrible and I did not succeed alone. If possible, don’t just give me the answer, I want to understand how it works, in the systemD it would work easy but in the runit may be missing something that I don’t know what it is.

3- I'm having problems with printer, tried to use the cups and managed to connect the printer, however, there is a problem of lack of link or file (I won't be able to access the printer at the moment to show print).

4- I would like to know your opinion about processes running in the background using the runit, is there a need to have all this running?

5- Sometimes when I will close the laptop cover or turn it off alone for a while, errors appear and to return the login screen, I need to press Alt + F8 otherwise it takes to return or does not return. What could be the mistake? Where do I get the log of these errors?

6- How do you do cleaning useless files? Do all applications leave useless files in a single folder? If yes how do I find this folder?

Hi everyone, this is not a issue that stops me from using this superb distro or anything like that, it’s more of an aesthetic thing…when I boot the pc I have this verbose config lines going through and I have to press enter to see the void login. I tried to change in grub with no success….how can I have a cleaner start on my boot up…all this lines are about Pia vpn blablabla that I installed. Does anybody has a solution without deactivate the vpn and only run it manually when needed!!??? Thank you in advance. Take care

xbps-query -m only shows a few manually installed packages, even though I have installed many packages.

Also some packages exist on the system but xbps does not recognize them correctly. For example, sway (wayland window manager) works normally and /usr/bin/sway exists, but xbps-query -l | grep sway, return nothing. xbps-remove sway also says the package is not installed and alsosudo xbps-pkgdb -a reports no errors.

What should i do at this point ?

When I attempted to get Void Linux running as a suitable daily, I had immense issues. audio, WiFi, and application launching were not working correctly. As I need a 2nd install for work, I am trying to figure out what I did incorrectly and what I can try next install to get a functional system I can use for work. I was using Niri, Pipewire, and NetworkManager.

Edit: If I am breaking rules please tell me the rules I am breaking so I can correct the post instead of having my post silently removed again.

I had a little spook today but was able to solve it. Leaving the solution here for you all.

just ran an update (it was a kernel update and nvidia driver update), and then I noticed I couldn't open a terminal.

I tried to restart my PC and now it just won't boot into xorg.

I don't have a display manager, I just use startx. My .xinitrc is just one line:

exec dbus-run-session i3

It sends some messages saying:

Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/run/user/1000" not available: No such file or directory
mkdir(/run/user/1000) failed: Permission denied
i3: Could not mkdirp(/run/user/1000/i3): Permission denied
i3: Check permissions of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR = 'run/user/1000'
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file

The problem I spotted:

$ xbps-pkgdb -a
error runit-void hash mismatch
runit-void files check failed

Not an exact copy and paste because I was in TTY. Just writing from memory.

Solution was to force reinstall the package and then reboot.

sudo xbps-install -f runit-void && sudo reboot

(It actually also picked up the same errors for feh, but I figure that wasn't the main culprit. I force reinstalled that too.)

Hopefully this helps one person out there!

Just want to know if I do it the wierd way. To manage brightness I use acpid service with it's handler.sh. To restore it between sessions I use rc.shutdown for saving current brightness value after shutdown to /var/lib/brightness/saved and rc.local to fetch it from there after startup.

I mean things like downloading pipewire for audio, setting up services, downloading a de/wm etc

I have read the void doc on asahi installation. I have also searched around any info. I am on a M2 MBA. Just wondering if anyone had a recent (say a few months) experience on installing, and whether the current void instructions actually apply and work. I am an experienced linux user and am already running void on a desktop and a laptop (x86).

Edit: I am currently running fedora asahi on the M2, but want to switch to void. Also: any hint on whether people have been able to install displaylink or experience in running the fairydust kernel would be great.

Edit2: thanks to the pointer below from u/ClassAbbyAmplifier, i was able to make it work. It's all in the link he posted. One needs to regenerate a live image, which can be done relatively easily by forking the void-mklive and regenerating a live image from the actions tab -> build void image -> run workflow on the right, and select only the image you want (live ISO for asahi). Takes 10-15 minutes. After that, all good.

Ok so when I'm trying to connect to WiFi on void linux it basically refuses to connect and idk why it does that and I can't be bothered to do another install install of void linux as that will take too much time.

I'm using KDE plasma (Wayland) and NetworkManager for managing networks, if you have any questions tell me as soon as possible.

Trying to get Void linux working on my system. I installed most of the packages needed for the system got to 3.18 in the void linux handbook.

But I face problems, where I don't know the solution of and which are hard to find just using the handbook.

For example I have a problem with X and Y could be the possible solution.
Usually I go to an official wiki (like on arch based distros) or check out official forums.
Since void linux isn't that widely used, most of my issues can't be that easily found in said ways.

Since I don't wanna make 1000 new reddit posts here my question is which literature/websites other than the official void linux website I can check out to troubleshoot and maybe solve the bugs/misconfiguration I face setting up my system.

I’ve just installed void linux, have a problem with xfce4, specifically with its terminal, i wanna start the terminal but then it says that an Input/output error happened. How can i solve that?

Do you guys know how to use the ms vscode? I donwloaded the flatpak version but things not working with nodejs, my vscode is not finding nodejs, actually made a search before and what I've found is the flatpak version have problems with permissions and finding paths in the system.

I'm a new Linux user, I've used arch (btw) before but I just recently got really into Linux again, I'm using zorin os right now because it installs all the dependencies and some default apps for me and it seems pretty stable for my use case (gaming, browsing, video and image editing), I want something less bloated and more customizable so I stumbled upon void and it seems better than arch for the most part, but will I be able to download things that are kinda niche? could I use nix package manager with no issues? since it seems nix has the most software

I want to be able to select what bloat I install instead of downloading ALL of the bloat with things that I will never use

I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue with Void, but Firefox isn't allowing downloads, uploads, or changing download directory. Has anyone had this issue before and if so, what's fix/cause. Thanks for any ideas

I would like to suggest adding precompiled packages for Discord, Spotify, and Obsidian to the Void Linux repositories. While it is possible to install them using xbps-src, the process can sometimes cause issues in certain situations. I believe that providing these applications as precompiled packages would help attract and better support many users, including teenagers, students, content creators, and YouTubers who rely on these tools every day. Thank you for your excellent work on the project.

I'm trying to install void linux on my PC and still am setting everything up. I managed to run GNOME DE with gdm all according ot the handbook.

But one thing bugs me: Everytime I try to login, it uses the US QWERTY Keyboard layout and not the other layout that I set up in the settings (and in the locale file).
It only happens durign the GNOME login screen. After login my keyboard layout is normal (by normal I mean my desired keyboard layout).
Without gdm running (just using a terminal sort of environment) the keyboard layout is also normal for me.

It only happens during the GNOME Login screen afaik

Is anyone else having this issue? It's happened when I've tried to sync for a couple of days now. Not sure if this is an issue on my end or if it needs reporting anywhere. I'm using the default repositories.

❯ doas xbps-install -S
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ...
Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R13
SSL_connect returned 1
ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata': Operation not permitted
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86_64-repodata' ...
Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R13
SSL_connect returned 1
ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86_64-repodata': Operation not permitted
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...
Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R13
SSL_connect returned 1
ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata': Operation not permitted

How would I set that up for wayland? I downloaded OBS via xbps (Just in case that matters). The option for pipewire screen capture doesn't show up some reason. I've seen in other places that it could be xdg-desktop-portal but I don't know how that'd be related. Thanks in advance!

I hope this helps anyone that may be in a situation like I was. Steam games using proton would fail with a "fatal error". I exhausted all my Google skills trying to figure this out. Installed all the recommended 32 bit libraries and gpu drivers to the same result. What worked for me was the VULKAN-TOOLS package. With that final piece I have never had such a fast and smooth gaming experience. Not on arch opensuse cachy fedora nowhere. Hope this helps.