# Installing Breezy Gnome desktop on Steam Deck (contributed by Bill Burdick)
These instructions require making your filesystem read-write. Efforts have been made to use distrobox
but so far have not succeeded. Please contribute if you have success with that!

# Make sure you're running on at least 3.6, which might require switching to the beta or alpha channel
## NOTE: gnome-shell --nested didn't work for me on 3.5 but it did when I updated to 3.6.
I was getting errors:
```
Unrecognized option: -byteswappedclients
```
(with lots of other text).

Seems related to this bug: https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050642 and SteamOS 3.5 has mutter 44.2
# If your root is not already writeable, make it so
```sh
sudo steamos-readonly disable
```
# If your pacman environment is not already initialized, make it so
```sh
sudo pacman-key --init
sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
sudo pacman-key --populate holo
```
# make sure /usr/share is in your XDG_DATA_DIRS variable
# if not, add :/usr/share to it
# load depends for breezy
```sh
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
# existing packages are reloaded here in order to install their header files
sudo pacman -S glibc linux-api-headers systemd-libs openssl libevdev libusb json-c curl hidapi python python-pydbus 'gnome-shell>=45.0' python-yaml
```
# Install xr-driver-breezy-ghome-git
```sh
work=$(mktemp -d)
cd $work
mkdir xr-driver
cd xr-driver
curl 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=xr-driver-breezy-gnome-git' > PKGBUILD
curl 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/hooks.install?h=xr-driver-breezy-gnome-git' > hooks.install
makepkg -si
```
# Install breezy-desktop-gnome-git
```sh
cd $work
mkdir breezy
cd breezy
curl 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=breezy-desktop-gnome-git' > PKGBUILD
makepkg -si
```
# Continue with wheaney's instructions
[Instructions](../README.md#non-gnome-setup)
# Thanks to TTachyon on Reddit for some very important info
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t92ozw/for_compiling_c_code
# Docks
My Steam Deck dock does not support displayport alt mode on any of its ports (except the one that goes into the deck of course). There are a few docks out there that do, but not many.
If you need to use a third party dock with your glasses, make sure it has a port with the displayport alt mode symbol

| like | ![image](small-usb-displayport-logo.png) | or | ![image](large-usb-displayport-logo.png) |
|-|-|-|-|

For reference, I'm using the Inateck 10-in-1 USB-C hub [(Amazon link)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCXZWS9C)