Game center tools

This repository contains some opinionated scripts that I wrote for my specific purposes:

• headless Linux gaming system streamed to my TV set via Sunshine/Moonlight
• no keyboard, only a Bluetooth gamepad connected directly to the gaming system
• XFCE desktop environment
• Steam Big Picture as main UI

Gamepad battery notifications (gamepad-power)

Dependencies: notify-send, udev, mounted sysfs on /sys

A little systemd service that monitors battery-powered gamepads and sends notifications when the battery charge changes. Notifications are sent using notify-send which must be installed on the system. Battery status detection requires a mounted sysfs in /sys and udev running.

Run make && sudo make install to install the shell scripts and a systemd unit for the user daemon. After that, enable it:

systemctl --user enable --now gamepad-power.service

Note that in order to start the service automatically at login time you need a desktop environment that supports systemd and graphical-session.target (XFCE is not one of them, I had to make it work in some other way). You can also start /usr/local/bin/gamepad-power in whatever way you prefer.

Steam compatibility tools updater (steam-compat-updater)

Dependencies: notify-send, curl, tar, gunzip

This is a script that will update Steam compatibility tools (currently only GE-Proton).
Just run it under the same user you also run Steam with and it will use desktop notifications (using notify-send) to notify upgrades or errors. If no upgrades are found, no notifications are displayed.

Please note that if Steam was running during an upgrade, it needs to be restarted to detect the upgrade.

Run make && sudo make install to install the shell script and a systemd unit for the user daemon. After that, enable it:

systemctl --user enable --now steam-compat-updater.service

Note that in order to start the service automatically at login time you need a desktop environment that supports systemd and graphical-session.target (XFCE is not one of them, I had to make it work in some other way). You can also start /usr/local/bin/steam-compat-updater in whatever way you prefer. This script is not a daemon and just runs once, does the upgrades, then exits - it is intended to be run once at system startup.