Minlau

Minimalist wine game launcher written purely in bash.

Features

• Fully featured zsh and bash completion script
• Create and delete wine prefixes
• Download and install wine builds
• Download and install dxvk builds
• Install and uninstall dxvk on wine prefix
• Launch games
• Use feral gamemode
• Configure everything with a config file

Available commands

Command	Description
--list-games	List games in config.ini
--help	Display help message
--create-prefix [game]	Create a prefix if there isn't already one
--delete-prefix [game]	Delete a prefix
--launch [game]	Launch game
--install-dxvk [game]	Install dxvk on prefix
--uninstall-dxvk [game]	Uninstall dxvk on prefix
--winecfg [game]	Open winecfg on prefix
--winetricks [game]	Open winetricks on prefix
--download-wine [version]	Download wine build and install it
--download-dxvk [version]	Download dxvk build and install it
--clear-cache	Delete everything in the cache directory

Config file

The config file is located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/minlau/config.ini or $HOME/.config/minlau/config.ini if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set. It will accept any varible you set, so things like DXVK_HUD can also be used.

Variable	Description
[global]	Global settings, will be overwriten by the game var
[GAME]	Game specific settings, overwrites global settings
LAUNCH	Path to game executable
WINE	Path to wine binary
WINEPREFIX	Path to wine prefix
WINEARCH	Wine architecture [win32/win64], defaults to win64
WINEESYNC	Whether or not to use esync [0/1]
WINEFSYNC	Whether or not to use fsync [0/1]
GAMEMODE	Whether or not to use feral gamemode [0/1]
WINE_INSTALL	Path to install wine builds
DXVK_INSTALL	Path to install dxvk builds
DXVK_PATH	Path to dxvk installation
DXVK_DLLS	Which dxvk dlls to install
AUTO_DXVK	Whether or not to auto (un)install dxvk on prefix [0/1]
DXVK	When AUTO_DXVK=1 it will install or uninstall dxvk [0/1]
ARGS	Argument to go after command
SANDBOX	Disable wine desktop integration [0/1]
WINETRICKS_SANDBOX	Disable wine desktop integration using winetricks [0/1]
MINLAU_CACHE	Path to store temporary files
WORKING_DIR	Directory to cd when opening the game
DISABLE_SCREEN_SAVER	Disable X screen saver

Example config.ini:

[global]

# Wine
WINE="/usr/bin/wine"
WINEPREFIX="$XDG_DATA_HOME/wine"
WINE_INSTALL="$XDG_DATA_HOME/minlau/wine"
WINEARCH=win64
WINEESYNC=1
WINEFSYNC=1

# DXVK
DXVK_INSTALL="$XDG_DATA_HOME/minlau/dxvk/"
DXVK_PATH="$XDG_DATA_HOME/lutris/runtime/dxvk/v1.8.1L"
AUTO_DXVK=1
DXVK=1
DXVK_HUD=0

# Misc
GAMEMODE=1
MANGOHUD=0
SANDBOX=1 ;you can use this or the winetricks implementation, this one is faster
WINETRICKS_SANDBOX=0 
DISABLE_SCREEN_SAVER=1

; can comment with # or ;
[foo]
LAUNCH="$XDG_DATA_HOME/Games/foo/foo.exe" 
WINE="$XDG_DATA_HOME/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-6.4-x86_64/bin/wine64"
WINEPREFIX="$XDG_DATA_HOME/Games/wineprefixes/foo"
DXVK_DLLS='d3d9.dll d3d10core.dll d3d11.dll' #optional
DXVK_STATE_CACHE=1
DXVK_STATE_CACHE_PATH=$WINEPREFIX # can use variables declared BEFORE

Installation

Arch/Manjaro

A package is available in the AUR minlau-git. If you use an AUR helper:

paru -S minlau-git

Any distro

Clone the repo and modify the contents of setup.sh to fit your needs, then just run the install script:

git clone https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/minlau.git
cd minlau
chmod +x setup.sh
sudo ./setup.sh install

Uninstall

sudo ./setup.sh uninstall