Cordial 0.28.0

Cordial 0.28.0: PartyDeck, gamescope and controllers

What you can do now

• Start a game from another program.
  cordial --profile P --play [--place-id N] [--fullscreen] [--set key=value]
  opens straight into Roblox on that profile, with those settings for that run
  only. Several can run at once, one per profile. cordial --help lists the
  exit codes a script can act on. See PartyDeck.
• PartyDeck split screen. Handlers for a native install and for the Flatpak
  are in packaging/partydeck/. Each player's game sees only its own
  controller. Tested with a stand-in that starts Cordial the way PartyDeck does,
  not with PartyDeck itself.
• gamescope works. Inside gamescope the game used to exit at once with no
  window and no error. It now opens, at full speed.
• Controllers reach the Flatpak. It could not see /dev/input at all, so
  no pad ever worked there. It now asks for input devices, which needs Flatpak
  1.15.6 or newer; on an older Flatpak the app still runs, without pads, and
  Controllers says how to grant it.
• Controllers read correctly. A pad without every standard axis had its
  right stick read as a trigger and its face buttons read one place out
  (#113). Cordial now reads
  the layout the pad declares. Neither change is tested with a real pad yet.
• Holding a key on X11 no longer restarts hold-to-interact prompts
  (#106).
• The camera turns on Hyprland when you hold right click
  (#56). The cursor stays free
  while you drag, as it did before 0.26.0; shift lock and first person still
  lock it. CORDIAL_DRAG_LOCK=1 brings back the old behaviour.
• Display refresh follows a fast monitor. On a 120 Hz or faster screen the
  Frame rate limit's Display refresh now runs at the monitor's rate instead
  of 60 (#103). The list also
  gains 360 and 480 (#101).
• Roblox 2.702.0.622 loads. It needed a function Cordial did not provide
  (#110).
• Save logs for bug reports. Report a Problem → Save logs… writes one
  .zip with Cordial's and Roblox's logs, with your account details removed.
  The issue forms ask for it.
• The docs site lists every release, including this one.

Also

• Two tests no longer fail when your umask is 0077, and Roblox's worker count
  respects a CPU limit set on Cordial. Thanks to hnrie
  (#102).

What is still broken

The signed-in startup freeze. Roblox can stop drawing on the loading screen
after sign-in. The launcher restarts a client stuck that way, up to twice.

You cannot sign in inside gamescope. The game runs on X11 there, which has
no sign-in window. Sign each profile in from a normal Cordial window first.
PartyDeck's guest profiles are refused.

Hyprland: the cursor moves while you drag the camera. That is the cost of
the #56 fix. None of the Hyprland, X11 key-repeat and controller fixes is
confirmed by a reporter yet.

Movement keys can be dead after joining a game. Move the mouse while the
place loads and it does not happen. The automatic fix is still untested
(#29).

If the launcher process itself is killed, the game goes with it.

On the Nintendo Switch, games crash a few seconds in
(#85).

The rest of the list in the
0.24.0 notes still
applies.