selkies-kde-nvidia

Recipe card from the charly-selkies plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

Box: selkies-kde-nvidia

The NVIDIA-GPU build of the KDE Plasma flavor (/charly-selkies:selkies-kde) — the same headless-pod KDE streaming desktop on the CachyOS GPU base (cachyos.nvidia), with pixelflux’s real NVENC encoder compiled in. It is the KDE sibling of /charly-selkies:selkies-labwc-nvidia (labwc + NVENC); both use builder.pixi: arch.cuda-arch-builder so the selkies candy’s build.sh compiles pixelflux’s real nvenc-sys encoder (the stock arch-builder has no CUDA → an NVENC stub).

Owned by the opencharly/distro-cachyos submodule (box/cachyos).

Definition

selkies-kde-nvidia:
  base: nvidia                            # the CachyOS GPU base (cachyos.nvidia)
  build: [pac, aur]
  builder: {pixi: arch.cuda-arch-builder}   # nvcc + ffnvcodec headers → real NVENC
  candy:
    - agent-forwarding
    - selkies-kde-desktop
    - dbus
    - charly
  port: ["3000:3000", "9222:9222", "9224:9224", "2222:2222"]
  platform: [linux/amd64]

NVENC compile-proof (check-coverage)

The box carries a build-scope check: check pixelflux-nvenc-compiled that greps the built pixelflux .so for NvEncodeAPICreateInstance (the NVENC SDK entry point the nvenc-sys crate binds). The stub build patches nvenc-sys out of pixelflux’s Cargo.toml, so the symbol is absent → the check FAILS on a non-NVENC build. This is the regression-proof for the box’s NVENC functionality (identical to /charly-selkies:selkies-labwc-nvidia).

Ports / Encoder

Same ports as /charly-selkies:selkies-kde (3000/9222/9224/2222). Encoder: real NVENC on the passed-through NVIDIA GPU (CDI --device nvidia.com/gpu=all); falls back to x264 when the GPU is unavailable.

Quick Start

charly -C box/cachyos box build selkies-kde-nvidia
charly check box selkies-kde-nvidia            # build-scope incl. pixelflux-nvenc-compiled

NVENC at runtime requires a passed-through NVIDIA GPU — proven on the check-selkies-kde-nvidia-vm bed (a requires_exclusive: [nvidia-gpu] passthrough VM that asserts real NVENC frame production; the preemption arbiter frees the GPU from any running holder). See /charly-internals:disposable + /charly-check:check.

/charly-selkies:selkies-kde — the cpu/default sibling (shared definition + the KDE flavor framing).
/charly-selkies:selkies-labwc-nvidia — the labwc + NVENC sibling (same cuda-arch-builder + NVENC-compile proof).
/charly-selkies:selkies-kde-desktop — the KDE metalayer + the de-SDDM headless-Plasma design.
/charly-distros:cachyos — the CachyOS GPU base (cachyos.nvidia) + submodule.
/charly-distros:nvidia, /charly-distros:cuda — the GPU runtime + CUDA toolkit candies.

/charly-image:image — image family umbrella (candy: image entries with base:/from:, build/validate/inspect/list).
/charly-build:build — the embedded build vocabulary (distros, builders, init-systems).