build-appimage.sh produces pixelpass-<version>-x86_64.AppImage via
linuxdeploy. PixelPass links almost nothing (only libpipewire, which is
excludelisted) and shells out to gst-launch-1.0/pactl/a player on the host
PATH, while its GUI graphics libs are dlopen'd and also excludelisted — so
the AppImage bundles just the binary, AppRun, desktop entry, and icon
(~13 MB, zero bundled libs). The no-sandbox model lets the bundled binary
spawn the host's tools, which is why AppImage fits this orchestrator better
than Flatpak.
AppRun opens --gui when launched with no args and no controlling terminal
(file manager / .desktop), and passes through otherwise so the CLI,
interactive menu, and viewer all work. README documents the host-deps
contract + the glibc-baseline and VAAPI caveats.
Verified: builds to 13 MB; --version/--help work; the GUI launches cleanly
on a live Wayland session via both --gui and the no-tty AppRun path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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