GameInfo

What is or does GameInfo do?

A system info tool, primarily for gamers. It displays a wide range of gaming-related information, like libraries and tools.

What is it not?

GameInfo is no a runner, not an emulator, or yet another game library. It simply displays what is installed on our system.

Supported tools

Emulators/Runners
✔️ Wine	✔️ Proton	✔️ DOSBox	✔️ ScummVM
✔️ Lutris	✔️ Minigalaxy	✔️ PlayOnLinux	✔️ Heroic Launcher
✔️ GameHub	✔️ Rare	✔️ itch.io App	✔️ SamRewritten
CLI tools	Streaming/Video	Audio / Mixers	Perf tuning
✔️ steamcmd	✔️ Discord	✔️ pavucontrol	✔️ MangoHud
✔️ steam-cli	✔️ Twitch	✔️ pipewire	✔️ CoreCtrl
✔️ legendary-gl	✔️ obs-studio	✔️ pulseffects	✔️ cpupower-gui
✔️ truckersmp-cli	✔️ Kdenlive	✔️ easyeffects*
Graphics	Modding	Helpers	Containers
✔️ dxvk	✔️ OpenRGB	✔️ winetricks	✔️ Flatpak
✔️ vkd3d	✔️ vibrantLinux	✔️ protontricks

_{(*) might replace pulseeffects}

Planned:

• Redshift / Blueshift

Installation

Steps assume that python (>= 3.8) and pip are already installed.

Install dependencies (see sections below)

Then, run:

$ pip install GameInfo

Install directly from github:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/amstelchen/GameInfo#egg=GameInfo

When completed, run it with:

$ GameInfo

Dependencies

On Debian-based distributions (Mint, Ubuntu, MX, Zorin, Pop!_OS, etc.), installation of the packages tk, python3-tk, libcairo2-dev, and libgirepository1.0-dev may be necessary.

$ sudo apt install python3-tk tk libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev

On Arch based distributions, only tk needs to be installed.

$ sudo pacman -S tk

On Void Linux, installation of the packages python3-tkinter, python3-gobject and others (see below) is necessary instead.

$ sudo xbps-install python3-tkinter python3-gobject libgirepository-devel

Anyways, it often helps to keep your python installation updated:

$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

System requirements

GameInfo is tested to work on the following distributions:

• Arch Linux (or any Arch based distribution like Manjaro, ArcoLinux, ...) ^(1.0.16)
• Debian 11 or newer ^(1.0.16) (Debian 10 now unsupported, latest Python 3.7)
• Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu 20.04 or newer, Pop!_OS 20.04 or newer ^(1.0.16)
• Manjaro 20 ^(1.0.16)
• Linux Mint 20 or newer ^(1.0.16) (19.3 lacks support for Python 3.7/3.8, only has 3.6.9)
• MX Linux 21 or newer ^(1.0.16) (19.1 likely needs to run pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel )
• Zorin OS 16.2 ^(1.0.16) (15.3 lacks support for Python 3.7, only has 3.6.9, plus misses a lot of libraries)
• Fedora 37 Workstation or newer ^(1.0.16) (needs some of the libraries above, plus more)
• Void Linux ^(1.0.16)
• Garuda Linux ^(1.0.16)
• Artix Linux ^(1.0.16)
• openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 15.2 or newer ^(1.0.16) (needs some of the libraries above, plus more)
• Slackware 64 14.2 and 15.0 ^(1.0.16)
• EndeavourOS ^(1.0.16) (tested since 22.1)

thus, GameInfo supports various package managers, i.e.

• pacman/yay (Arch),
• apt/dpkg (Debian),
• yum/dnf (Fedora),
• and even xbps (Void)
• and slackpkg (Slackware).

Tests underway:

• FreeBSD 13.1
• Gentoo Linux (my portage is broken currently)
• Haiku (just for fun, you probably won't play games on Haiku)
• NixOS 22.05 (probably never going to work)

Reporting bugs

If you encounter any bugs or incompatibilities, please report them here.

Enabling logging/debugging

$ GAMEINFO_DEBUG=1 GameInfo
2022-06-09 01:42:43.612974 DEBUG: GameInfo 1.0.16
2022-06-09 01:42:43.613849 DEBUG: DistributionId: arch
2022-06-09 01:42:43.613883 DEBUG: DistributionKind: arch
2022-06-09 01:42:43.677696 DEBUG: Themes loaded: cosmo flatly litera minty lumen sandstone yeti pulse united morph journal darkly superhero solar cyborg vapor simplex cerculean 
2022-06-09 01:42:44.184135 DEBUG: Fetching system info, this can take a second...
2022-06-09 01:42:44.185443 DEBUG: Checking for wine... Time elapsed: 4.60ms

Troubleshooting

✔️ No distribution logo in Slackware:

echo "LOGO=slackware-logo" | sudo tee -a /etc/os-release
wget -O slackware-logo.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Slackware_logo.svg
sudo mv slackware-logo.svg /usr/share/pixmaps

✔️ No distribution logo in FreeBSD:

echo "LOGO=freebsd-logo" | sudo tee -a /etc/os-release
wget -O freebsd-logo.png https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2257994974dfde8a9f5412eff259cecb?s=256
sudo mv freebsd-logo.png /usr/local/share/pixmaps

✔️ No distribution logo in elementary OS:

echo "LOGO=elementaryos-logo" | sudo tee -a /etc/os-release
wget -O elementaryos-logo.svg https://elementary.io/images/icons/places/128/distributor-logo.svg
sudo mv elementaryos-logo.svg /usr/share/pixmaps

✔️ Similar to Xubuntu:

echo LOGO=xubuntu | sudo tee -a /etc/os-release

✔️ GameInfo is not on the user's PATH.

$ echo "# Add ~/.local/ to PATH
export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc

Set accordingly when using another shell.

✔️ Up to lutris-0.5.9, a progressbar was shown even when GameInfo was running lutris --version: This has been changed with lutris-0.5.10 onwards.

✔️ dosbox (dosbox-staging) on openSUSE has a differently formatted version-string. This has been fixed in GameInfo.

Screenshots

(always outdated)

Future plans / TODO

(see TODO.md)

Licences

GameInfo is licensed under the GPLv2 license.

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