WlxOverlay v1.2.1

Fixed:

• Regression involving multiple displays causing crash on X11. Thanks @ChrisJAllan
• Rare crash involving notifications and a race condition.

WlxOverlay v1.2.0

What's new:

• Pipewire capture now works on more wayland compositors
• Fixed auto-detection of capture protocol when wayland_capture: auto
• Fix libpipewire-0.3.so being included in AppImage and breaking on some systems
• Rework default_screen behavior; will now consider first screen if no override, regardless of desktop env.
• ✨ Can now be set to auto-start in SteamVR startup settings! ✨
• Notifications: Added support for Dbus (desktop) notifications as well as VRCX (Compatible build here!)

Wayland users: Since you're probably changing some env variables to get SteamVR to start under Wayland, make sure you're not removing WAYLAND_DISPLAY as WlxOverlay needs this one to figure out the location of your Wayland server socket.

Known issues:

• Pipewire capture still uses MemFd / MemPtr and thus is slower than DMA-Buf. This is being worked on.

WlxOverlay v1.1.2

New

• Notifications system
  • For now this only displays XSO-style notifications
  • Planned additions include battery alerts and dbus notifications
• Chaperone system
  • An alternative solution for those who can't use SteamVR chaperone for any reason
  • Very much WIP, if you want to try this this then poke me on Discord

Fixed

• Headset battery not displaying consistently
• Greatly reduced CPU load when using Wayland screens

WlxOverlay v1.1.1b

New:

• Instructions for when /dev/uinput is inaccessible.

Fixed:

• Knuckles bindings missing from AppImage

WlxOverlay v1.1.1a

Small feature release for Wayland users.

Features:

• Working DMA-BUF capture implementation
• Will auto-select between DMA-BUF and ScreenCopy methods unless explicitly specified in config.yaml

WlxOverlay v1.1

Features of this release

• Experimental Wayland support!
• Both X11 and Wayland to use the same keyboard/mouse input (uinput). Mouse move on X11 still uses libXtst, but we'll get rid of that soon as well.
• Full-size keyboard included!
• Keyboard layouts are now language-agnostic. This might break your existing keyboard.yaml, but it means you most likely only ever need to change your custom keys and their labels from now on.
• Fallback (rendered-on-top) cursors for those who don't want to use lasers.
• Battery section to display HMD battery state (ALVR headsets)
• AppImage release for better compatibility between systems

Release 1.0.5

What's new

• Added fallback_cursors option for those who have trouble using the laser pointers.
• A more graceful shutdown process.
• HMD + Controller batteries will now show properly, if supported.
• Included bindings for Vive Wands.

Which package to get

• If you have thedotnet 6 runtime installed on your system:
  • X11Overlay-bin
• Else:
  • X11Overlay-bin-selfcontained

Release 1.0.4

Added more verbose error checking to config files and fixed config.yaml.

Support for Quest & Pico controllers.

Which package to get:

• If you have thedotnet 6 runtime installed on your system:
  • X11Overlay-bin
• Else:
  • X11Overlay-bin-selfcontained

Release 1.0.2

Fixed a bug where pointing the 2 controllers on 2 different screens would invoke 2 mouse move calls per frame.

Added option to expose SteamVR inputs via shm files.

See the README.md for a quick-start guide.

Which package to get:

• If you have thedotnet 6 runtime installed on your system:
  • X11Overlay-bin
• Else:
  • X11Overlay-bin-selfcontained

Release 1.0.1

Fixed 2 annoying bugs:

• Cursor acting up on clicks
• Cursor freeze time being in ms instead of s, as advertised.

See the README.md for a quick-start guide.

Which package to get:

• If you have thedotnet 6 runtime installed on your system:
  • X11Overlay-bin
• Else:
  • X11Overlay-bin-selfcontained