r/voidlinux

I have a ThinkPad X201t on Void and it runs pretty nice, aside from GPU acceleration. Now since I use it for drawing I need that to work since currently Krita is very laggy when moving around the canvas. Also GPU acceleration in the settings is disabled and I can't turn it on. I've followed the documentation to the tea and installed all of the packages I need, aside from Vulkan which is not needed in my case. Games also run poorly or not at all, indicating OpenGL doesn't work. The CPU is a first-generation i7-620M with Intel Integrated Graphics.

Extra info: lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Subsystem: Lenovo Device 215a

Kernel driver in use: i915

Kernel modules: i915

Anyone know if there is a fix?

What really bugs me is that my X220t which is one generation newer works flawlessly and has proper acceleration. I really prefer using this one because it has a 16:10 display and the battery lasts 3x as much. Thank you in advance!

hey i need to show off a good tiling windows manager for my school presentation but i don't know which since ehh how do i say it the thing that rolls off of wayland with a waterdrop logo isn't supported by default and last time i tried i fucked it up

so i am looking for another good option

Hello, I now use fedora but after trying voidlinux I saw that it might be my distro to stop the distro hop, but:

1- is there a tutorial for what to do after installing base void

2- how to solve some issues when first time setting up the distro

(One of which was the dbus and elogind/seatd confusion, user dirs and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, happend on a VM too...)

3- is XBPS that good for real, I've had some concerns of it having small packages

4- I'll use wayland, so if there's something specific tell me about it

I'm just a first time visitor, so I may have mistaken in something

Thanks

Hello

Ive been using mint for about 1.5 month ish

I want to know if i should switch to void linux

I play roblox and minecraft

Im comfortable using the terminal too

I just want to know if its recommended for me to switch to Void Linux :D

Please help D:

As a total systemd-hater, I don't like getting things into my system which emulate what I got away from (elogind emulates logind and logind is part of systemd). I already have turnstiled and seatd installed and running, as well as I am in the _seatd group, still I cannot get polkitd with a PolKit-agent working. Any suggestions/workarounds/tips?

Anyone have a fix for it on void? I am on the update screen but it is taking forever and keeps disconnecting and reconnecting my controller and puck.

now the void devs will probably sacrifice me for this.

but i want to get hyprland on void mainly because i have a school presentation about linux and one of the main themes i choose ( i def can't explain linux in 15 minutes that's why i am focusing on just some parts of it and one of those is desktop environments)

i need it since i want to show 3 desktop environments.

i already riced kde plasma and gnome and I don't really want to show xfce bcs it doesn't look very modern.

i remember where there was a time where it was on the hyprland website and it showed a github repo but it's not there anymore.

so i wanted to know if i have to compile it or if there is a void ready version somewhere.

Hello!! After distrohopping for a while, I decided to finally settle down on one distro, and I chose Void Linux. I want to use Void as my daily driver and actually stick with it instead of reinstalling a new distro every day lol

I’ve already installed Void a couple of times before and today I did a clean install on my main pc. The handbook is pretty clear about everything and it’s pretty easy to follow, but there are still some things I want to make sure I’m doing correctly

First of all, I wanna say that I have a pc with Ryzen 5 5600x, RTX 3060 and 16gb of RAM. I plan on using a wayland compositor, like MangoWM.

1. What services should I actually enable on a fresh install?
   I currently only have dhcpcd enabled. I’ve seen mixed comments about elogind, seatd, dbus, polkit, etc. Some people say dbus already handles elogind automatically, others say to enable both. It messes me up a little, trying to understand what’s right and if it’s right for me

2. Are there any good resources/websites/videos for setting up Void after installation?
   The handbook is great, but I’d also like to see some practical examples or setups from experienced Void users

3. PipeWire
   On one of my earlier installs, I had issues getting PipeWire fully working. I think I understand it better now, but if anyone has recommendations for a clean PipeWire/WirePlumber setup on Void, I’d appreciate it.

4. Any tips and tricks are much appreciated

I just want to make sure I’m getting the most out of this experience and I really wanna stick with Void, I love the concept and delivery. Thank you!!!

xbps just says
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/x86\_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/nonfree/x86\_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86\_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86\_64-repodata' ...

instead of all packages are up to date

Launching firefox from fuzzel is crashing my system -_-

edit: did the good ole' fresh install

why do people so frequently say "Void doesn't have that many packages"?

reading about void linux in random linux-related subreddit threads and usually there's always someone in the comments saying something along the lines of "i couldn't find many of the packages i needed". can't you also download nix packages on Void? is it just a lack of knowledge around Void?

have you had any issues finding packages you need on void?

root@void ~# ls /boot

config-6.12.90_1 efi/ initramfs-6.12.90_1.img vmlinuz-6.12.90_1

config-6.18.32_1 grub/ initramfs-6.18.32_1.img vmlinuz-6.18.32_1

I just updated font a few minutes ago and it removed fonts, i had terminus for my desktop, terminal and system in general but now its gone.
[orion@void ~]$ xbps-query -l | grep terminus

ii terminus-font-4.49.1_1 Clean, fixed width bitmap font

[orion@void ~]$

according to xbps its still insalled but i cant see it or use it, how can i check what got updated when i run xbps-install -Syu?

I was thinking recently about all of those atomic immutable distributions, and the idea itself sounds pretty nice, but i‘m a little bit frightened with all of that fragmentation (even relative to linux) this approach provides: you use flatpak, appimages, distrobox, tarballs, even snaps to get software on this kind of a system. the cleanest approach to installing software on immutable distributions i see myself is nix, since it can work per user (like homebrew I think). Is it possible to get xbps working like this? I mean, does it provide such functionality at the moment?

So I decided to give Void Linux another try.
Not too long ago, I had no problems installing Void with the base install, but this time I had to go with the xfce version. I originally didn't want to have to do this as my goal was to install i3, so now here I am removing everything having to do with xfce.

I have no clue on what happened during the process of setting up this laptop. It has been nearly 2 days now and I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out if I accidentally deleted a necessary package, or didn't install one in the first place.

And now I can't open Wezterm. I keep getting an XOpenDisplay error where the display won't open. And the main reason as to why I know this was because at the time, to make things simpler I was connected to the laptop through SSH from another computer and I stumbled across this strange behavior. At the time Wezterm was the only terminal I had installed on it and using sudo is the only janky thing that appears to work around this issue. And even then it doesn't appear to use my config file.

Just to test, I re-installed xfce4-terminal and that appears to open just fine directly on the laptop with i3. I also recently noticed similar behavior trying to open Gparted (only sudo works). Applications like firefox and thunar open just like you would expect it to.

To give a clearer picture, I'm attempting to go as minimal as possible; so for example I'm using startx instead of using lightdm.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

EDIT: I've been doing some more research, and while I can admit that I don't completely understand how it worked, I installed some potentially missing vulkan drivers and now Wezterm opens! However, I still can't get Gparted to open without sudo. Could this have something to do with some kind of missing GTK package? I know that on my other computer (which is currently running EndeavourOS), if I use rofi to open up Gparted I at least get an authentication window prompt before it opens.

Some time ago I tried to run some glibc software on Void Linux, the musl version. After breaking my head for way too much time, I realized you can really just use the Bedrock Linux project to run software like Steam or Firefox (for Widevine CDN)!

My system is (was before I installed bedrock ig) a pretty standard bare-bones Void Linux musl install with X.org and dwm. Here uname -a if you really want (the hostname is xmm0):

Linux xmm0 6.18.26_1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun May  3 01:56:02 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I will use the Debian stratum (plural: strata) here for this.

>ACHTUNG: Back up everything. Although I aim to make this mostly smooth and straight-forward, Bedrock is known to behave weirdly on musl systems (for example, I couldn't get unprivileged users to make clone new namespaces, so some stuff may have to be ran with setuid or straight out sudo, which is... suboptimal)

Bedrock Linux can be hijacked into your current distro (that is, installed in-place). Get your script for your architecture based on this reference. For x86-64 (aka. x64 or amd64), run:

$ wget https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
$ ./bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh --hijack

After this is done, reboot! Log on to a session, and install a stratum of your choice:

$ brl fetch --list

should print out some strata you can use for your system. To install the Debian stratum, run:

$ brl fetch debian --mirror http://deb.debian.org/debian

Wait for a bit, and when it finishes, you will have access to Debian user-space and applications from your Void Linux install! You can enter a Debian shell with:

$ strat debian <optional command to run here>

Although all Debian commands will be available from a normal shell. You probably should bootstrap apt now (I will prefix the shell prompt with stratum$ for commands that use the stratum we installed):

stratum$ sudo apt update
stratum$ sudo apt upgrade
stratum$ sudo apt install <Debian packages here> 

I hope you found this useful, thanks in advance!

Hello,

I have desktop PC with a USB WiFi adapter dongle. Everything use to work fine until some time later in 2025 when it would over time slow down to a crawl and start dropping the connection. I figured my dongle was dying, so I bought a different one (TL-WN725N from TP-Link). It seemed to work fine at first, but now I face the same issues. What's weird is that upon booting up the PC the connection seems fine before the issues get worse and worse. For the past few months I have been using the USB tethering feature of my phone, so the network itself is fine.

The only network-related service I have running is NetworkManager (and dbus of course). I have read conflicting information on whether other services are supposed to be enabled as well or not. At least the Void manual tells me not to enable them. My user is not a member of the network group, but oddly enough aside from the unreliability of WiFi everything else works fine.

Here is the information from rfkill:

$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
42: phy41: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

My system version:

$ uname -a
Linux titan 6.18.25_1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Apr 28 00:15:48 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

[main]
plugins=keyfile

My understanding is that NetworkManager will use wpa_supplicant as a backend to establish the actual WiFi connection. Do I need to run the wpa_supplicant service as well? Or maybe configure something it first?

My router WiFi settings are (I don't know what these mean though):

**2.4 GHz**
WiFi Mode: 802.11n/g/b
Channel: auto
Bandwidth: 20/40MHz

**5 GHz**
WiFi Mode: 802.11ax/ac/n/a
Channel: auto
Bandwidth: 20/40/80 MHz

how have yall configured keyboard scroll wheels to set keybinds for raising / lowering audio w/ wireplumber