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Protontweaks

Automatically apply necessary protontricks to your games!

Requirements

• protontricks

Installation

This will automatically install protontweaks with your systems package manager if its available

$ bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://protontweaks.com/install.sh)"

NixOS

NixOS Flake Example

{
  description = "NixOS Example";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    protontweaks.url = "github:rain-cafe/protontweaks/main";
    protontweaks.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... } @ inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations =
      let
        inherit (self) outputs;
        inherit (nixpkgs.lib) nixosSystem;
      in
      {
        your-hostname = nixosSystem {
          specialArgs = { inherit inputs outputs; };

          modules = [
            # This is just an example, you can obviously format this however you want!
            ({ pkgs, ... }: {
              imports = [
                inputs.protontweaks.nixosModules.protontweaks
              ];

              nixpkgs = {
                overlays = [
                  inputs.protontweaks.overlay
                ];
              };

              # This will install protontweaks and enable the watch service that automatically updates the launch options
              services.protontweaks.enable = true;
            })
            # Your NixOS Modules here...
            ../defaults/configuration.nix
          ];
        };
      };
  };
}

Usage

Automatic

This installs a systemd service that automatically updates your launch options when you install a game.

$ protontweaks service --install

Manual

Add the following to the launch options for a steam game!

protontweaks %command%

Configuration

We attempt to load a configuration file from the following locations, from highest to lowest priority:

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/protontweaks.json
2. $HOME/.config/protontweaks.json
3. /etc/protontweaks.json

{
  // Whether to automatically run games with gamemoderun (if installed and supported)
  // Default: true
  "gamemode": true,
  // Whether to automatically run games with mangohud (if installed and supported)
  // Default: false
  "mangohud": true
}