faugus-launcher/README.md

Faugus Launcher

A simple and lightweight app for running Windows games using UMU-Launcher

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Installation

Arch-based distributions (AUR)

yay -S --noconfirm faugus-launcher

Fedora / Nobara (Copr)

sudo dnf -y copr enable faugus/faugus-launcher
sudo dnf -y install faugus-launcher

Bazzite (Copr)

sudo dnf5 -y copr enable faugus/faugus-launcher
sudo rpm-ostree -y install faugus-launcher

Restart your system.

Ubuntu / Mint / KDE Neon

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y wget
mkdir -p ~/faugus-launcher
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/1.6.2/faugus-launcher_1.6.2-1_all.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.6/python3-umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_amd64_ubuntu-noble.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.6/umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_all_ubuntu-noble.deb
sudo apt install -y ~/faugus-launcher/*.deb
sudo rm -r ~/faugus-launcher

Debian 13

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y wget
mkdir -p ~/faugus-launcher
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/1.6.2/faugus-launcher_1.6.2-1_all.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.6/python3-umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_amd64_debian-13.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher/releases/download/1.2.6/umu-launcher_1.2.6-1_all_debian-13.deb
sudo apt install -y ~/faugus-launcher/*.deb
sudo rm -r ~/faugus-launcher

openSUSE (Packaged by ToRRent1812)

# Tumbleweed
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Rabbit95/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ home:Rabbit95
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys install -y faugus-launcher

# Slowroll
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Rabbit95/openSUSE_Slowroll/ home:Rabbit95
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys install -y faugus-launcher

Flatpak (EXPERIMENTAL)

Download faugus-launcher-0.6.2-4.flatpak and run:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat.i386//24.08 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default//24.08
flatpak install --user faugus-launcher-0.6.2-4.flatpak

Steam Flatpak needs permissions to run Faugus Launcher's shortcuts and to show the game's icon:

sudo flatpak override com.valvesoftware.Steam --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
sudo flatpak override com.valvesoftware.Steam --filesystem=~/.var/app/org.faugus.faugus_launcher/config/faugus-launcher/

Known issues:

• The button Stop can't close individual games/apps due to how Flatpak handles processes. I'll have to rework the game/app monitoring in the future.
• Gamescope doesn't work. Don't ask.

Build from source

meson setup builddir --prefix=/usr
cd builddir
ninja
sudo ninja install

Dependencies:

meson ninja pygobject requests pillow filelock vdf psutil umu-launcher imagemagick icoextract libayatana-appindicator

Usage

Information

Default prefixes location

~/.config/faugus-launcher/prefixes/

Runners location

~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/

If you want to use native builds like proton-cachyos or proton-ge-custom, please symlink them to the user folder.

ln -s /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/
ln -s /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-ge-custom ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/

Shortcut locations

For Desktop Environments that support icons on the Desktop

~/Desktop/

For Application Launchers

~/.local/share/applications/

Screenshots

Main window

Add/Edit game

      

Settings

GE-Proton Manager

Create shortcut from .exe file