Lutris
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Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It makes gaming on Linux easier by taking care of managing, installing and providing optimal settings for games.Lutris does not sell games, you have to provide your own copy of the games unless they are Open Source or Freeware. The games can be installed anywhere you want on your system, the tool does not impose anything.
Lutris relies on various programs referenced as 'runners' to provide a vast library of games. These runners (with the exception of Steam,Desura and Web browsers) are provided by lutris, you don't need to install them with your package manager
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This piece was sourced from the Lutris wiki.
Running Lutris games from Steam allows you to easily both install and run games directly from the Steam interface. Perform the following steps to add Lutris games to Steam:
- Select Games -> Add a non-Steam game to my Library...
- Click Browse, filter by file type of All Files, and the find the executable of
lutris - Right click on the new "lutris" shortcut and select Properties
- Rename the title to the name of the game you would like to add. For example:
SuperTux - Set the launch options to
lutris:supertux, wheresupertuxis the slug of the game, found in the URL of the game on the Lutris website - Add an icon from either Steam Banners, /r/steamgrid, or TheGamesDB
It's quite possible to add a launcher script to allow this to launch in BPM, but this is little point in doing so. If Lutris is launched via BPM, the mouse is erratic (only shows if you click/drag). Subsequent windows will not launch (web pages within Lutris client, etc.) anyway. If sudo pkill lutris is issued, you will actually see the web pages Lutris tries to launcher (should use the default browser).
The current suggestion is to use the Kodi integration.
Rob Loach, a Steam community member, Redditor, and Lutris aficionado, recently worked out integration of Lutris into Kodi. This is a work in progress, and will not currently work with the master tree of Lutris until the pull request is merged. This integration may be worked into SteamOS-Tools, but the decision on how, or if, has yet to be decided.
The steps performed below are done as the Steam user to minimize cleanup. Otherwise, you will need to correct the owner and permissions of folders (basic use of sudo will apply the root user to a folder).
Kodi addon to launch games through Lutris.
- Install the SuperRepo repository
- Visit Home -> Settings -> Addons -> Install from repository -> SuperRepo -> Program Add-ons -> Lutris -> Install
- Configure the addon to ensure the Lutris executable path is correct
git clone git@github.com:RobLoach/script.lutris.git ~/.kodi/addons/script.lutris
cd ~/.kodi/addons/script.lutris
git status