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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/1.2.5/faugus-launcher_1.2.5-2_amd64.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/1.2.5/python3-umu-launcher_1.1.4-1_amd64.deb
wget -P ~/faugus-launcher https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/1.2.5/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

Flatpak (EXPERIMENTAL)

Download <a href="https://github.com/Faugus/faugus-launcher/releases/download/1.2.5/faugus-launcher-0.2.5-2.flatpak">faugus-launcher-0.2.5-2.flatpak</a> and run:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install faugus-launcher-0.2.5-2.flatpak

# Optional tools
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud//23.08

ATTENTION: Gamescope is not working yet!

Usage

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/72b6790e-ce02-4405-aa3d-fa2b3720107c/><br><br> <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/958cd1cb-2917-421e-a28a-0cdca0d60c85/><br><br> <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3578ef62-fb00-4147-8978-5c2bcb8e7099/><br>

Add/Edit game

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a6d30723-6120-4c75-9f13-d183696f8b3f/>      <img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/449b3b01-2fd0-47c7-b5b1-eb2759fd5139/><br>

Settings

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a7dfc31-1f79-48b7-bba6-dbb28006de68/><br>

GE-Proton Manager

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c46f90ac-7713-46bf-8795-33d3917fb48e/><br>

Create shortcut from .exe

<img src=https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/828aac17-6aa5-4d29-a908-dbbc8a5604d5/><br>