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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-git
# Optional tools
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm mangohud
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm gamemode
yay -S --noconfirm sc-controller

Fedora-based distributions (Copr)

sudo dnf -y copr enable faugus/faugus-launcher
sudo dnf -y install faugus-launcher
# Optional tools
sudo dnf -y install mangohud
sudo dnf -y install gamemode
sudo dnf -y install sc-controller

Debian-based distributions

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/v1.1-15/faugus-launcher_1.1-15_amd64.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/v1.1-15/python3-umu-launcher_1.1.4-1_amd64.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/v1.1-15/umu-launcher_1.1.4-1_all.deb
sudo apt install -y ~/faugus-launcher/*.deb
sudo rm -r ~/faugus-launcher
# Optional tools
sudo apt -y install mangohud
sudo apt -y install gamemode

ATTENTION: If you get the following message when trying to run something

pressure-vessel-wrap[2264]: E: Child process exited with code 1: bwrap: setting up uid map: Permission denied

It's the AppArmor preventing umu-launcher from working properly. <a href='https://gist.github.com/Faugus/8d3caa3ce93eb1ff90409f3c3dbabe0f' target='_blank'>FIX

Flatpak (EXPERIMENTAL)

Download <a href="https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/v1.1-15/faugus-launcher-0.1.11.flatpak">faugus-launcher-0.1.11.flatpak</a> and run:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install faugus-launcher-0.1.11.flatpak
# Optional tools
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud//23.08

ATTENTION: Gamescope is not working yet!

Usage

YouTube

Information

Default prefixes location

~/.config/faugus-launcher/prefixes/

Runners location

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

Shortcut locations

For Desktop Environments that support icons on the Desktop

~/Desktop/

For Application Launchers

~/.local/share/applications/

Using SC Controller with Faugus Launcher

Save the SC Controller profile at

~/.config/faugus-launcher/controller.sccprofile

https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/assets/112667550/04f4f009-4b5a-4642-857f-21e3eb666074

Screenshots

Dark theme

Main window

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/46db5689-30a6-41ab-9a22-8206bfabc682/><br>

Add/Edit game

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cf70c8e4-6b59-4ce6-9958-93b5b80ea244/>      <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/69d5a53c-380f-4b57-a8b1-63313e0d7905/><br>

Settings

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e38392ac-de76-4da0-8ec7-ca2ff734f130/><br>

GE-Proton Manager

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4b250388-b6df-4af0-982f-9da9f06dc1af/><br>

Create shortcut from .exe

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/080c37b0-5ad0-4192-b4f2-f1bdd08dcb75/><br>

Light theme

Main window

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/31776ca4-0d2c-4e4f-ace9-a796fa7c81b6/><br>

Add/Edit game

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3f1c6328-ef2f-48ca-a0c5-9d9847ddf478/>      <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b46b757c-405e-4f73-9c37-b333f47238b0/><br>

Settings

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/620ba534-d07f-477f-a21f-52ee86dd170c/><br>

GE-Proton Manager

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1e38d572-d1df-48fd-bafb-26310c1c9932/><br>

Create shortcut from .exe

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4d5feb01-0667-4c57-8285-cbfb3bc97c93/>