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Most of the text of the README was written before we landed on not using a config file for each api to make it a simple jump table. Also added some bits about user daemon vs root daemon.
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This is the SteamOS Manager.
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It is a small daemon that's sole purpose is to give Steam something with a DBus
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api that runs as root and can do things to the system without having to have
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hard coded paths and DBus apis in the Steam client itself.
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It is a mostly thin wrapper around other scripts and DBus apis that provides feedback for
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each DBus method it implements.
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How it works:
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The SteamOS Manager runs as root and exposes a DBus api on the system bus.
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Another instance runs as deck user and exposes a DBus api on the session bus with
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a few extra methods. These methods run directly in the user daemon as deck user. All
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other apis forward to the root daemon via it's DBus api.
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To add a new method:
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To add a new method that doesn't require root privileges add it to the user daemon's DBus api
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directly.
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To add a new method that does require root privileges add it to the root daemon's DBus api and it will
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be exposed automatically in the user daemon.
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