Package request: GameMode

[magnusshtebner]

GameMode allows you to change temporarily the CPU priority in favor of the game. And also some other things.

GitHub : https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/

[Johnnynator]

There seems to be still some ties to systemd(?, or something else), gamemoderun ./game does not work oob, just spams dbus launch. Need to look closer into it, but Games that set gamemode themself or the example client do work correctly already.

[kedodrill]

Any updates on this?

From the 1.6 changelog: "Add option to use elogind"
Guess that allows this to work fine now without systemd? Would love to see this available to install

[hristoast]

There are two files that need to be copied into specific places after install:

sudo cp $PREFIX/share/dbus-1/services/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
sudo cp $PREFIX/share/polkit-1/actions/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/

You probably need to restart dbus/polkit; I just rebooted. But after that, I was able to successfully use gamemoderun. I think the daemon requires systemd, even when you select elogind.

[paper42]

merged in #36564