Protontricks for Flatpak

Protontricks packaged for Flatpak. Compatible with both native and Flatpak Steam installations.

Installation

You can install Protontricks for Flatpak from the Flathub repository. You need to have Flatpak installed with the Flathub repository configured. For installing Flatpak and configuring Flathub, see the official installation instructions.

Install Protontricks for Flatpak using the following command:

flatpak install flathub com.github.Matoking.protontricks

Add an alias that allows you to call Protontricks using the protontricks alias:

echo "alias protontricks='flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks'" >> ~/.bashrc

You will need to source the updated file with. ~/.bashrc or restart any terminal emulators you have open for the alias to take effect.

Configuration

By default, Protontricks only has access to the Steam installation directory. You will need to add filesystem permissions for additional Steam library locations, and other directories when running external EXEs.

In order to grant access to other directories, you can use the Flatseal graphical utility or the flatpak override command (eg. flatpak override --user --filesystem=<PATH> com.github.Matoking.protontricks) to grant access to other directories.

For example, to grant access to /mnt/MySSD/SteamLibrary, you can run the following command:

flatpak override --user --filesystem=/mnt/MySSD/SteamLibrary com.github.Matoking.protontricks

Usage

Command-line

After you have installed Protontricks and added the alias, you can run Protontricks commands using the alias you configured:

# Find your game's App ID by searching for it
protontricks -s <GAME NAME>

# Run winetricks for the game
protontricks <APPID> <ACTIONS>

For the rest of the usage options, see the README on the main Protontricks repository.

Desktop

You can launch the Protontricks GUI using the Protontricks app shortcut, and launch external EXEs using Protontricks Launcher when opening a Windows executable in a file manager.

Due to the Flatpak security model, you might need to add filesystem permissions as described in Configuration. This is necessary when the Windows executable requires access to other files.