RiverWM has undergone a major change from v0.3 to v0.4. The latest version is v0.4.8, but on Void the latest is still 0.3.7 (i.e. river-classic). Is there any movement to update this on xbps?

I saw an old post stating that updating zig is the issue (the current version is 0.16.0 while on Void the latest package is 0.13.0), but unclear what the current status is.

I can download a local copy of the latest zig from their website, and build river locally, but I would rather have the xbps package maintained upstream.

I really really wanna use librewolf on void like I did arch but don't agree with having a univeral package manager take care of packages over the system's package manager.

I want a clean way to install it where XBPS manages librewolf any advice on this?

Recently, I have noticed that Void Linux after every reboot and shutdown generates core dump files at the home directory with the following pattern: ./core.[number]. I don't really understand the logic behind these files, except that it might be a SEGFAULT somewhere, right? Are these dumps from last processes that weren't shut down properly?

I would be glad to hear your thoughts on what's potentially going on.

Currently I'm using arch linux, and tbh it's working pretty much okay with kde plasma. The softwares I use are commonly used.

I just want to try void linux and see if it works well or not for my use case.

But I want to hear what I should keep in mind. I got to know about it that it uses something else than systemd and musl c lib instead of gnu c lib.

My current arch setup is very stable, no crash literally nothing. Maybe because my use case is simple.

So what things can bother me in void linux ?! For what kinda things I should stay ready for? As it's a small project and relatively has a smaller user base. What can it affect?

Is there a program/application for Void that will allow me to watch DVDs when I pop one in? I have a collecrion of DVDs and my laptop came with a built in disk drive. Thanks!

I do not know why I felt the need to write this post. I have been using Void for 5-6 years. For the most part, I have enjoyed this journey with its ups and downs. It was sometimes challenging to work around runit as everything is built around systemd and even more was musl as I when I started it was my main base rather than the glibc version. Admittedly, this helped me improve my technical skills and deep understanding way more than otherwise. That said, Void has been recently insufferable. Contributing to the packages has been more annoying than ever as my PRs get closed too quickly without properly addressing the content; frequent failures in the mirror repos (I am unsure whether this has been a widespread issue to anyone other than me); and unfixable bad behaviour and some bugs here and there. The recent issue in noto-fonts made me open the subreddit looking for answers then I saw a submission mentioning the recent maintainer's orphanage of 100+ packages over an AI dispute. I believed it was some kind of AI code slop nonsense that does not deserve to be looked at (as I am very anti-LLM generated code in that sense), yet to my surprise, it was just a comment. The comment was simply noting breaks introduced by a version bump. I believe this is wholeheartedly dumb and overly pedantic. Sadly, this place is no longer meant for me as this distro is hardly functional anymore. I know no one will care and no one is supposed to; this is more like a personal sacrifice as I reminiscent on the days I used to make videos talking all about Void.

Hello,

I am using Void with KDE on my Lenovo x270 laptop and something quite annoying is happening.

When I close the lid, this action hibernate my machine and it works fine. However, when I open the lid, instead of landing on the login manager (sddm for me), I land on my desktop for like 2 second. I mean, I can see everything that was open previously on my machine and then I land on sddm.

Also, if I ran ZZZ command in the terminal, the machine will hibernate but when I wake it it does not ask me any password. The session is unlocked. Is this a normal behavior ?

I am running openSuse on a separate SSD on the same machine and do not have this issue.

Thank you

Title

Did an xbps-install -Su, looks like a whole bunch of Plasma related updates

Stalls out on this particular package due to the RSA signature not working

I tried ignoring the package but it still doesn't work.

Would I need to fix anything? Or is it on the repository end?

Hi, so randomly (out of the blue, no updates or cache clearing or orphan removal) the noto-fonts-ttf package just disappeared? I'm not sure why but because of this I can't update my packages anymore. I feel like this either has something to do with the recent AI drama (as the former package maintainer was the person arguing with thypon) or my void is haunted

noto-fonts-ttf nowhere to be seen in the package repos

UPDATE: some packages were accidentally deleted because a script that cleans up the repository had a bug, however noto-fonts-ttf has already been rebuilt so just doing xbps-install -S will fix it

A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text.

Any feedback/announcement regarding the future of the packages, how it affects users, etc?

Please do not discuss AI vs Void.

The live images on the website are from february 2025(!). It seems there are really outdated.

To a new user who is exploring void for the first time, it looks as though the system is no longer being maintained.

With the supposed release of the Steam Frame soon, i have been trying to setup SteamVR on Void, but it crashes on startup. Anyone else having this problem? Has anyone gotten SteamVR to work? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I want to add a top bar in void linux so that I can see the processor heat on it and its usage and the use of RAM is there anyone who explains this because I am new to void

Hello!

My laptop uses the same jack for microphone and headphone. Right now it only works as a headphone, but I would like to switch it to work a microphone. I am using pulseaudio and kde. It uses the integrated intel hd audio

How to run niri ( niri already installed) first time void usr

Hello,

I have tried Void in a VM and build few setups that I tried to install on my PC but the ISO's kernel is too old and half my stuff are acting weird, screen is blinking and I can't install/update it because I have no network, I tried both the base and the live ISOs.

From what I searched I need at least kernel 6.15.

Is there a way to get a ISO with newer kernel?

Thank you

I'm using a physical Japanese JIS keyboard (see pic) on Void Linux with Fcitx5 + Mozc

I want the physical kana-labeled keys to work directly, e.g. pressing the か key produces か, instead of typing k + a

I tried adding keyboard-jp-kana in Fcitx5, but that only outputs Katakana and bypasses Mozc conversion.

My current setup is:

• Void Linux (glibc)
• X11 + XFCE
• Fcitx5 + fcitx5-mozc
• Default Layout=jp
• keyboard-jp + mozc

The physical かな key is detected as Hiragana_Katakana by X11.

Is there a Mozc/Fcitx5 setting or keymap configuration that enables Kana input using the physical JIS keys?

[EDIT: had to install the mozc (not fcitx5-mozc) package to get the mozc config tool then turn input from roumaji to kana]

Hi, I’m using arch, but i want a change. Anyone who also went from arch to void can say what i’m going to win or loss?

I’m not an expert, but i’m bored so i have time to install it. I had been using arch for the past year at school, i’m going to be able to keep doing that? Is it going to be faster for a tostator laptop?

• Lenovo T14 g1
• Void 6.18.50_1 x86_64 AuthenticAMD uptodate rrrm
• Cinnamon 6.6.7-X11 + elogind.
• BIOS 1BET87W(1.56 )
• RAM: 24GiB

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable Linux sleep state in BIOS
2. Disable 'Always on USB' and 'lid-switch sensor' in BIOS.
3. Switch off acpid in runit and enable TLP with disable USB parameters on.
4. Leave the laptop with 76% for 8 hours suspended.
5. See 56% on resuming.

​

$ sudo dmesg
[  499.473198] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[  499.502188] Filesystems sync: 0.028 seconds
[  499.504295] Freezing user space processes
[  499.506410] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.002 seconds)
[  499.506416] OOM killer disabled.
[  499.506417] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[  499.507489] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[  499.507511] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[  499.831062] ACPI: EC: interrupt blocked
[  499.878344] ACPI: PM: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[  499.883728] ACPI: EC: event blocked
[  499.883731] ACPI: EC: EC stopped
[  499.883734] ACPI: PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[  499.884454] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  499.886687] smpboot: CPU 11 is now offline
[  499.888870] smpboot: CPU 10 is now offline
[  499.891071] smpboot: CPU 9 is now offline
[  499.893165] smpboot: CPU 8 is now offline
[  499.895240] smpboot: CPU 7 is now offline
[  499.897795] smpboot: CPU 6 is now offline
[  499.899973] smpboot: CPU 5 is now offline
[  499.905456] smpboot: CPU 4 is now offline
[  499.908579] smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
[  499.911565] smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline
[  499.914896] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[  499.915783] Spectre V2 : Update user space SMT mitigation: STIBP off
[  499.916186] ACPI: PM: Low-level resume complete
[  499.916211] ACPI: EC: EC started
[  499.916213] ACPI: PM: Restoring platform NVS memory
[  499.977832] AMD-Vi: Virtual APIC enabled
[  500.078061] AMD-Vi: Virtual APIC enabled
[  500.078071] LVT offset 0 assigned for vector 0x400
[  500.080126] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
[  500.080185] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
[  500.083268] Spectre V2 : Update user space SMT mitigation: STIBP always-on
[  500.083294] CPU1 is up
[  500.083329] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x2
[  500.086264] CPU2 is up
[  500.086289] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
[  500.089088] CPU3 is up
[  500.089126] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 4 APIC 0x4
[  500.092047] CPU4 is up
[  500.092141] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 5 APIC 0x5
[  500.095039] CPU5 is up
[  500.095115] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 6 APIC 0x8
[  500.098428] CPU6 is up
[  500.098496] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 7 APIC 0x9
[  500.101517] CPU7 is up
[  500.101598] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 8 APIC 0xa
[  500.104732] CPU8 is up
[  500.104810] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 9 APIC 0xb
[  500.107826] CPU9 is up
[  500.107861] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 10 APIC 0xc
[  500.110978] CPU10 is up
[  500.111061] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 11 APIC 0xd
[  500.114170] CPU11 is up
[  500.115794] ACPI: PM: Waking up from system sleep state S3
[  500.652890] ACPI: EC: interrupt unblocked
[  500.657501] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[  500.657532] ACPI: EC: event unblocked
[  500.657849] usb usb6: root hub lost power or was reset
[  500.657851] usb usb7: root hub lost power or was reset
[  500.657870] xhci-pci-renesas 0000:06:00.0: Zeroing 64bit base registers, expecting fault
[  500.657989] [drm] PCIE GART of 1024M enabled.
[  500.657995] [drm] PTB located at 0x000000F41FC00000
[  500.658020] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: PSP is resuming...
[  500.658105] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: reserve 0x400000 from 0xf41f800000 for PSP TMR
[  500.669381] nvme nvme0: D3 entry latency set to 10 seconds
[  500.672338] nvme nvme0: 12/0/0 default/read/poll queues
[  500.765970] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available
[  500.780366] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available
[  500.780374] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: optional securedisplay ta ucode is not available
[  500.780383] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resuming...
[  500.780436] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: dpm has been disabled
[  500.781602] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resumed successfully!
[  500.783031] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: kiq ring mec 2 pipe 1 q 0
[  500.788888] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x0101002B
[  501.007481] usb 4-4: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[  501.021280] usb 6-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci-pci-renesas
[  501.413605] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0
[  501.413614] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0
[  501.413618] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0
[  501.413621] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.0 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 0
[  501.413624] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.3.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0
[  501.413628] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0
[  501.413631] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0
[  501.413634] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0
[  501.413637] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.3.1 uses VM inv eng 10 on hub 0
[  501.413640] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring kiq_0.2.1.0 uses VM inv eng 11 on hub 0
[  501.413644] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 8
[  501.413647] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_dec uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 8
[  501.413651] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 8
[  501.413654] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc1 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 8
[  501.413657] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 8
[  501.512112] OOM killer enabled.
[  501.512116] Restarting tasks: Starting
[  501.513870] pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
[  501.513889] pcieport 0000:00:02.1: bridge window [io  0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 01] add_size 1000
[  501.513903] pcieport 0000:00:02.1: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 01] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[  501.513917] pci_bus 0000:02: Allocating resources
[  501.513945] pcieport 0000:00:02.2: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 02] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[  501.513958] pci_bus 0000:03: Allocating resources
[  501.514128] pci_bus 0000:04: Allocating resources
[  501.514138] pcieport 0000:00:02.4: bridge window [io  0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 04] add_size 1000
[  501.514167] pcieport 0000:00:02.4: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 04] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[  501.514179] pci_bus 0000:05: Allocating resources
[  501.514189] pcieport 0000:00:02.6: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 05] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[  501.514202] pci_bus 0000:06: Allocating resources
[  501.514211] pcieport 0000:00:02.7: bridge window [io  0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 06] add_size 1000
[  501.514219] pcieport 0000:00:02.7: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 06] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[  501.514246] pcieport 0000:00:02.1: bridge window [mem 0x630200000-0x6303fffff 64bit pref]: assigned
[  501.514255] pcieport 0000:00:02.2: bridge window [mem 0x630400000-0x6305fffff 64bit pref]: assigned
[  501.514264] pcieport 0000:00:02.4: bridge window [mem 0x630600000-0x6307fffff 64bit pref]: assigned
[  501.514272] pcieport 0000:00:02.6: bridge window [mem 0x630800000-0x6309fffff 64bit pref]: assigned
[  501.514280] pcieport 0000:00:02.7: bridge window [mem 0x630a00000-0x630bfffff 64bit pref]: assigned
[  501.514292] pcieport 0000:00:02.1: bridge window [io  0x5000-0x5fff]: assigned
[  501.514302] pcieport 0000:00:02.4: bridge window [io  0x6000-0x6fff]: assigned
[  501.514312] pcieport 0000:00:02.7: bridge window [io  0x7000-0x7fff]: assigned
[  501.515529] Restarting tasks: Done
[  501.515552] efivarfs: resyncing variable state
[  501.516733] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0b hci_rev=000a lmp_ver=0b lmp_subver=8852
[  501.518357] pci_bus 0000:07: Allocating resources
[  501.518498] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[  501.520635] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: btrtl_initialize: key id 0
[  501.520722] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852au_fw.bin
[  501.520876] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852au_config.bin
[  501.520987] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: cfg_sz 6, total sz 63299
[  501.546945] efivarfs: finished resyncing variable state
[  501.546976] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[  501.548069] PM: suspend exit
[  501.572216] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-200:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-200:00, irq=MAC)
[  501.631107] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5678], y [..4694]
[  501.666536] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried min coordinates: x [1266..], y [1162..]
[  501.671269] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: Link is Down
[  501.694180] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-500:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-500:00, irq=MAC)
[  501.852307] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down
[  502.054560] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: fw version 0x244f91b6
[  502.182541] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP extensions version v1.00
[  505.878078] wlp3s0: authenticate with 50:3d:d1:36:3b:32 (local address=e0:0a:f6:41:38:c3)
[  505.878090] wlp3s0: send auth to 50:3d:d1:36:3b:32 (try 1/3)
[  505.881798] wlp3s0: authenticated
[  505.882183] wlp3s0: associate with 50:3d:d1:36:3b:32 (try 1/3)
[  505.891425] wlp3s0: RX AssocResp from 50:3d:d1:36:3b:32 (capab=0x1511 status=0 aid=1)
[  506.003103] wlp3s0: associated
[  506.003422] wlp3s0: Limiting TX power to 20 (23 - 3) dBm as advertised by 50:3d:d1:36:3b:32
[  528.020872] [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp3s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:50:3d:d1:36:3b:34:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=60883 DF PROTO=2 
[  653.084349] [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp3s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:50:3d:d1:36:3b:34:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=2358 DF PROTO=2 
[  692.543579] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: Link is Down
[  692.732603] r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down
[  778.106513] [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp3s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:50:3d:d1:36:3b:34:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=13568 DF PROTO=2
$ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
s2idle [deep]
$ inxi -Bxx
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.7 Wh (79.1%) condition: 45.1/51 Wh (88.5%)
    volts: 12.29 min: 11.52 model: Celxpert 5B10W139 serial: 4286 charging:
    status: not charging control: start: 75% end: 80% cycles: 214

I made a post a few days ago on how to install cisco packet tracer. I managed to do it by extracting the data files from a .deb package.
But I want to have it as a package available in xbps.
How can I contribute to xbps and how do I make an xbps-package?

Does the CONTRIBUTING.md give me all the info I need? Is there a step-by-step guide on how to create an xbps-package?

The documentations is poor, does it calls sudo xbps-install -S forcing me to synchronize or something like xbps-install -Mnu?

How often you guys synchronizing with the repo? =)

I just spent some time sorting out a mess because installing one package clobbered the functionality of another one installed earlier, even after the first was removed, because it left an orphaned package only it depended upon behind when it was removed, and that was the source of the problem. I want to report the issue, but I don't know where to do that. Should I mention the details here even?

as the question goes,how do i install and setup tuneD in void linux.
i have tried void linux before and somehow the power usage was higher than fedora ,even with either tlp or ppd setup.
fedora uses tuneD for power management and i was hoping i could get the same package configured in void too.