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Make the console (kid) account name configurable

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Autostart reads CONSOLE_KID_USER from /etc/bc250-console.conf
(default: kid), so renaming the account is a pure on-box operation —
documented in OPERATIONS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ckoch
2026-07-13 12:35:45 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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commit 1ea0816c4f
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OPERATIONS.md
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df -h / # disk space
```
## Renaming the kid's account (optional)
With the kid fully logged out (`sudo loginctl terminate-user kid`):
```bash
sudo usermod -l NEWNAME kid
sudo groupmod -n NEWNAME kid
sudo usermod -d /home/NEWNAME -m NEWNAME
sudo chfn -f "Display Name" NEWNAME
sudo passwd NEWNAME
echo 'CONSOLE_KID_USER=NEWNAME' | sudo tee /etc/bc250-console.conf
```
Steam data and apps live in the home directory and move with it. The last
line tells the Big Picture autostart which account is the console account.
## Tuning the GPU (optional, after thermal testing)
The GPU governor's curve lives at
files/console/usr/bin/bc250-steam-bpm-autostart
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# status-clobbering bug, producing a zenity "ERROR: code=0; This is
# strange..." popup at login whenever Steam lingered from a previous
# session. We do the same quit-first dance robustly instead.
[ "$(id -un)" = "kid" ] || exit 0
# Which account gets the console treatment; override the default after a
# rename with: echo 'CONSOLE_KID_USER=newname' > /etc/bc250-console.conf
[ -r /etc/bc250-console.conf ] && . /etc/bc250-console.conf
[ "$(id -un)" = "${CONSOLE_KID_USER:-kid}" ] || exit 0
if pgrep -u "$(id -u)" -f 'steam\.sh|ubuntu12_32/steam' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
/usr/bin/steam +quit >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
files/console/usr/share/doc/bc250-console/OPERATIONS.md
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@@ -53,6 +53,22 @@ cat /sys/class/drm/card*/device/pp_dpm_sclk # GPU clock scaling
df -h / # disk space
```
## Renaming the kid's account (optional)
With the kid fully logged out (`sudo loginctl terminate-user kid`):
```bash
sudo usermod -l NEWNAME kid
sudo groupmod -n NEWNAME kid
sudo usermod -d /home/NEWNAME -m NEWNAME
sudo chfn -f "Display Name" NEWNAME
sudo passwd NEWNAME
echo 'CONSOLE_KID_USER=NEWNAME' | sudo tee /etc/bc250-console.conf
```
Steam data and apps live in the home directory and move with it. The last
line tells the Big Picture autostart which account is the console account.
## Tuning the GPU (optional, after thermal testing)
The GPU governor's curve lives at