Hey all. I believe I’ve previously posted about rofi-games (rofi plugin to launch games installed on your system) - but I’ve recently built rgd as an alternative.

This one is a CLI, and has less features (no custom entries, no sorting based on usage, etc.) but is much more adaptable. It can be used in scripts with any picker program in order to launch your games, or do anything else with the data parsed about each game. I’ve also included some scripts for popular pickers like fuzzel, dmenu, fzf, rofi and more.

It uses the same library I built for rofi-games for detecting games from different launchers installed on the system so it should work the same.

I really love rofi-games (unbiased btw) and I’ve been meaning to create an alternative for those who don’t use rofi or don’t need the extra features. Hope this fits that niche. And beyond just launching games, I’m sure someone will have a use for the data returned by rgd.

Let me know what you think and if you have any issues. Thanks!

p.s. Don’t judge the image too hard - the idea was to show it can work for many different picker/finder programs but uh… that could look better, I can’t lie

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    15 days ago

    It’s as simple as they come, I would say. Definitely deserving of a Gnome Circle status.

    Although I don’t understand why the game REMATCH fails to (automatically) apply a poster image to its tile. (Manual works fine.) There are images for it in that Steam image DB thing, so I dunno.

    Otherwise working like a dream. Starts up in an instant.