I'm trying to install an app on SteamOS and it's through the Terminal. When I run the command, I need to enter my sudo password as can be seen below: --- The thing is, I’ve never set a sudo password as far as I’m aware. How can I find out what this password is, maybe change it or remove it? I really don’t know what I set my sudo password to, I have no memory of ever setting one. I found this answer , but it didn't help me as when I enter those commands, then it asks for the sudo password again which I don't have.

I just switched almost all of my computers over to CachyOS, but I have a big issue now. AnyDesk isn't working. It worked perfectly before. I'm able to connect to other computers that are running SteamOS, Windows 10 and Windows 11, but can't connect to any of my own CachyOS computers from my own computers. I am however able to connect from CachyOS to my other computers. I keep getting this popup: --- I searched a bit and it seems like some people on Ubuntu are having the same issue by looking at this question . The answers there aren't very helpful though. As an example, I don't even have that gdm3 directory. So therefor I can't find this file: /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.

I've had to reinstall my HoloISO OS because for an unknown reason the previous install failed to boot. Upon even a complete reinstall I've been unable to use pacman. I've rebooted and looked for other instances of pacman running or db.lck files, but none have appeared. I don't have any reason to beleive I'm using pacmac, but I don't have any other ideas. Trying to use pacman -Syu results in an install failure caused by "failed to synchronise all databases" Also trying to reboot results in an 1228 second long stream of "device not accepting address XX, error -71" according to the INFO message right before it finally did restart, but I haven't had the chance to investigate that yet. I will edit this post once I've got the chance to investigate this further. SOLUTION: Forgot to steamos-readonly disable

From my testing it seems the Steam Deck does not source a .bash_profile or a .profile file inside ~ (by default /home/deck) After some investigation there is a bash profile deep in the OS which has the following:

───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: /home/.steamos/offload/root/.bash_profile
───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ #  SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
   2   │ #
   3   │ #  Copyright © 2020 Collabora Ltd.
   4   │ #  Copyright © 2020 Valve Corporation.
   5   │ #
   6   │ #  This file is part of steamos-image-recipes.
   7   │ #
   8   │ #  steamos-image-recipes is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   9   │ #  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
  10   │ #  by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
  11   │ #  (at your option) any later version.
  12   │ 
  13   │ #
  14   │ # ~/.bash_profile
  15   │ #
  16   │ 
  17   │ [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
───────┴──────────────────────────────────

There is also a copy of this file on /etc/skel/.bash_profile My understanding is that .bash_profile [should source](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/404877/606347) .bashrc and not the other way around, but in this case it seems there is no way for me to add a file on the home directory that only gets sourced once and not on every single new shell. So I have the following questions: 1. Is my assessment correct or could this be some SteamOS / ArchLinux quirk? 2. Should I source my aliases and exports on this ~/.bashrc or modify the system files to also source my ~/.bash_profile? Thanks in advance! ---

bash --version      5.01.16
konsole --version  23.04.2

Steam LCD model, version: Linux steamdeck 6.1.52-valve16-1-neptune-61

Got a steamdeck recently and have been setting it up for emulation. It's running SteamOS 3.0 which, from what I could find, is based on Arch Linux. I need two versions of PPSSPP. The latest build for most of my library and v1.10.3 specifically to play Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity over the internet with friends. I'm able to downgrade the currently installed flatpak to this version but now I've hit a roadblock trying to install the latest build without overwriting the other. Having never used Linux before in my life...I'm lost.

I'm having an issue with GitHub Desktop when trying to clone a repo on SteamOS. It's a new Steam Deck. Fairly fresh out of the box. I installed GitHub Desktop from the Discover store. - In GitHub Desktop, I click _Clone a repository from the internet_. - It brings up a modal window entitled _Clone a repository_ - The modal has some options, I leave it set to the default of GitHub.com - The button invites me to _Sign in_ - On clicking _Sign in_ another modal invites me to sign in using my browser - On clicking _Continue with browser_ a new tab is opened in chrome (github.com/login/oauth/authorize...) - Chrome invites me to open xdg-open - When I do that I'm redirected back to GitHub Desktop. - There's an error

Can't find session /org/freedesktop/secrets/session/2

I've tried googling for an answer without success. How can I solve it?

I'm use to opening my Task Manager with Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Windows 11. Is there a way I can set a shortcut key for the KDE System Monitor app so that it also opens using the same Ctrl+Shift+Esc shortcut on SteamOS Desktop Mode? If it's not possible, is there perhaps a default shortcut key for the KDE System Monitor app that I can use to open it?

I want to run neofetch in my Konsole to see my system information on SteamOS, but neofetch isn't installed by default because I get the following: > bash: neofetch: command not found So I searched online a bit and seems you can install it using the following command:

sudo pacman -S neofetch

But then I get an error. The error I'm getting and seeing is this: > error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) > error: could not lock database: Read-only file system --- Is it even possible to run neofetch on SteamOS? How can I install or run neofetch on SteamOS? --- **EDIT:** I've made some progress on installing it. First I ran the following commands in order to enable editing on my read-only image:

sudo steamos-readonly disable
sudo pacman-key --init

And if I run sudo pacman -S neofetch now, then I get the following error: > error: neofetch: signature from "GitLab CI Package Builder " is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/neofetch-7.1.0-2-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). I also tried the commands from this link :

sudo steamos-readonly disable
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo steamos-readonly enable

But that results in the following: > error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. And I also tried sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring as suggested in the comments, but that results in the following error: > error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)

I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F3 as this is a shortcut key for one of the programs that I am using and when I pressed this, all four of my screens went black and blank. I don't know how to get back to my normal desktops. Pressing the power button on the Steam Deck doesn't seem to do anything. It stays black and blank. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 again doesn't return me back to my normal desktop. I've also plugged out my external monitors, keyboard, mouse, and all of my stuff via Type C, but I still have the same issue. The screen is just black and blank. There's literally nothing on the screen. I found some other people online complaining about this too and they're saying to press Ctrl+Alt+F7 which I've done, but nothing happens. --- How do I exit this black blank screen (Ctrl+Alt+F3) on SteamOS and return back to my normal KDE desktop environment?

On Windows and other Linux distros, I simply go to Steam Storage Settings and add that external harddrive as a library storage device from here: When I try to do it via the "Add Drive" option, then I get an error popup that says the following: > Failed to add Steam library folder --- Why am I getting that error? How can I use my external harddrive and install games onto it? The Drive itself is in perfect condition. I tested installing Steam games onto it with other operating systems. I tested on Windows 11, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. It worked on all of them, but on SteamOS, it doesn't want to work. --- Does anyone know why it doesn't work or how I can get it to work?

At least once or twice a week, I accidentally bring up the on-screen keyboard as can be seen in the screenshot below: But I don't know how I am doing it. Can someone please tell me how I can manually trigger this to bring it up on my own? This link and many other links says the following: > In Desktop Mode, select a text field then press the Steam button + X. But I didn't even touch the Steam Deck. So I definitely didn't press the Steam button or the X button. I exclusively use my Steam Deck via a keyboard and mouse. --- I'm hoping there's a shortcut key for the on-screen keyboard that I'm sometimes pressing by accident or maybe a way in the KDE environment to bring it up?

I've been trying the whole day to install XAMPP onto my Steam Deck so that I can run Apache and other things from the XAMPP Control Panel. I've gone to the XAMPP website and downloaded XAMPP for Linux . The download gives me a .run file, but how do I run this .run file? When I open the file, then I get the following: What app do I need to choose to install XAMPP? I've chosen a couple of random ones, but it's not working. Launching it using the default Discover app, I get the following error: > Could not open file:///home/deck/Downloads/xampp-linux-x64-8.2.12-0-installer.run Any help would be appreciated 🙏🏻. Thanks. --- **EDIT:** As suggested by ZOOM in the comments. I need to try and run it through the Terminal using the following command: ` ./xampp-linux-x64-8.2.12-0-installer.run `, but that gives a permission error: > bash: ./xampp-linux-x64-8.2.12-0-installer.run: Permission denied And running . ./xampp-linux-x64-8.2.12-0-installer.run, gives the following error: > bash: .: ./xampp-linux-x64-8.2.12-0-installer.run: cannot execute binary file

In Desktop Mode on SteamOS, if you open up the "Status and Notifications" section from the system tray, then there's an option that says "Disk Quota": But when you click on it, then it says: > Quota tool not found. Please install 'quota' The issue is that it doesn't tell you how to install 'quota'. There's no instructions or install button. Searching for "quota" in the Discover Store doesn't give any valuable things either: --- So how do you actually install the Quota Tool?

I'm trying to connect to my company's VPN from my Steam Deck. I've gone ahead and setup my VPN connection as you can see from here: My company says it has to be L2TP so that is what I've chosen, but when I right click on it and say "Connect" I get a popup that says: > NetworkManager is missing support for 'l2tp' VPN connections on SteamOS When I click on "Install", it takes me to the "Discover" app, but it can't find or install it. It says and shows the following: > Could not open appstream:network-manager-l2tp because it was not found in any available software repositories. --- So, how can I actually get this installed and get my L2TP VPN working on SteamOS? --- If it helps, this is my system info:

Ars recently tested SteamOS against Windows 10 and [determined on average Windows 10 had a higher frame rate](http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-significant-performance-hit-for-steamos-gaming/?comments=1&start=40) . Does this have anything to do with Linux's reliance on an archaic graphics system (X11)?