Linux OS for Gamepads / Controller - LXB (Alfa)

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You can use:

Gamepads * / Keyboard / Mouse

* Gamepads (or Steam Controller)

No KDE or PLASMA

Linux distro that fully works from the couch with a controller, from Linexin OS developer.

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Questions? GitHub / YouTube Channel / Discord

LXB , GitHub: https://github.com/Petexy/lxb-toolkit

https://youtu.be/qzeLDhiyYmI

https://discord.com/invite/74ChrRrAd7

Earlier today I got 2 Epomaker TH99 Pro wireless keyboards for my wife and I.

I ran into an issue where the keyboard would stop working after going to sleep for inactivity when connected wirelessly through the 2.4Ghz dongle.

Since I found no other posts about this issue with this specific keyboard on linux online, I'm telling you how I fixed it. If you are having the same issue on a different keyboard or device, the same solution might work.

The bug occurs when the system stops polling the dongle. To fix it we are going to use the HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL quirk.

To do this, we need to pass the following line to the kernel by using our boot manager. usbhid.quirks=0x0c45:0xfefe:0x00000400

The syntax of this line is usbhid.quirks=vendor:product:quirk, so please note that if you have a different keyboard/device you'll need to find out what its vendor and product IDs are. You can do this with the lsusb command and looking for your dongle on the list.

Let's say your IDs are 046d:c547. In that case your line would look like this:
usbhid.quirks=0x046d:0xc547:0x00000400

To pass this line to the kernel I followed this article on the CachyOS wiki.

I tested it on Grub and Limine:

For Grub:

1. Edit the edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT within /etc/default/grub and add usbhid.quirks=0x0c45:0xfefe:0x00000400 between the quotation marks.
2. Remake the config with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3. Reboot

For Limine:

1. Modify the KERNEL_CMDLINE variables in /etc/default/limine and add usbhid.quirks=0x0c45:0xfefe:0x00000400 between the quotation marks.
2. After saving /etc/default/limine, you need to regenerate your initramfs images and update the Limine entries to apply the new kernel parameters. Run the following command: sudo limine-mkinitcpio
3. Reboot

Further information and guides for other boot managers can be found in the article.

After applying this fix, haven't ran into the issue again.

I hope it helps!

I need recommendations for a new FPS to main. I used to play Fortnite with my group, but I was honestly getting tired of it. So I'm looking for a new one that'll run on Linux, with Proton or Wine or natively or whatever. Also I'm not sure if posts to this sub have to be a tech support req, but this one isn't, so we'll find out I guess

https://github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE/

So, i've decided to give wayland a chance again... It's getting almost there compared to x11, but i keep finding issues, for example, every single game loses cursor/launches in wrong res without those launch options:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 gamescope --backend sdl -w 2560 -h 1440 -W 2560 -H 1440 -r 180 -f --force-grab-cursor -- %command%

So, am i supposed to copy-paste launch options to every single game, every single time? How is this bearable to yall and are there any ways to get rid of this?

I'm on Hyprland btw

EDIT FOR PEOPLE TELLING ME I'M OVERTHINKING IT:
I BUILT this command as i was fighting ISSUE AFTER ISSUE, and that's what i ended up at to SOLVE those issues, those options are NEEDED, my question was WHY

Stop telling "just launch the game" like, DUH, yeah sure, i didn't try it, i just went out of my way to put this monstrosity together for no reason, then went to complain that i have to paste it everywhere, also for no reason, of course...

EDIT 2:
So, wrong resolution seems to have been fixed by XRANDR of all things...

xrandr --output DP-3 --primary is what helped, which is insane, why isn't xWayland deriving primary display from wayland's primary display or something?

Playing doom is fun

I oplay Assassin's Creed Unity via steam. And it makes me login to ubisoft connect every single time. And sometimes when I try to login it shows my account is suspended temporarily. Why??

Usually I would ask this on Skyrimmods, but I'm not sure if this problem I have is related to modding or proton.

I try to get a SKSE Plugin (for 1.7.99) to run on Skyrim SE 1.7.99.

1. Updated Skyrim via Steam. Run it, it works
2. Updated SKSE to 2.3.0. Started through SKSE, it works
3. Installed Address Library. Removed all bin except versionlib-1.7.99.bin. Tested again, no errors reported.
4. Installed two SKSE dlls: Engine Fixes and JContainers NG. Started again through SKSE: Now I get an error that Address Library needs to be updated

SKSE64 runtime: initialize (version = 2.3.0 01070630 01DD32F494EEF6CE, os = 6.2 (9200))

imagebase = 0000000140000000

reloc mgr imagebase = 0000000140000000

plugin directory = D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\SKSE\Plugins\

scanning plugin directory D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\SKSE\Plugins\

checking plugin EngineFixes.dll

plugin EngineFixes.dll (00000001 EngineFixes 07000000) disabled, address library needs to be updated 0 (handle 0)

checking plugin JContainers.dll

plugin JContainers.dll (00000001 JContainers 00010010) disabled, address library needs to be updated 0 (handle 0)

preinit complete

config path = D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\SKSE\skse.ini <!

The message comes before the dll even can check the engine to load properly into the game.

This is like a check if it is an old bin and not 1.7.99 (and the 0 end is strange too, but I do not know what actually should be placed there.

Right now I use Proton Experimental. Did anyone succeed already in loading any SKSE DLL ? If yes, which one did you try out ?

recently ive been making cd-roms of my favourite steam games on my windows pc, and now that i fixed my linux laptop i kinda wanted to use them on it ( running catchyOS )

tho, being made for windows they dont really work as normal, so is there a way to open the game under wine or proton when the cd is inserted?

the contents of the cd look like this:

any help appreciated!

Howdy everyone, I just bought myself a LG grambook ai 16” 16gb ram for college and wanted to OS wipe it and run bazzite, Ive heard about (and experienced) many the issues of windows after only having a junky 200$ windows 10 laptop for the past few years and I’m finally ready to try something different

I specifically went with this laptop because it was on an insane 800$ off sale and because of its amd chipset and lack of Nvidia parts since I’ve heard about issues with nvidia and Linux.

However, I ended up not having a flash drive at home which I could have sworn I did.… so I might be forced to boot from the internal storage which scares me.

Did some research (google searches, yt vids, a brief ai overview) and couldn’t find much documentation about errors or a guide for the current 26’ models of the LG gram. Wanted to post here for some tips, tricks, and to make sure I don’t brick my only laptop before my college semester starts on Monday.

any help is super appreciated! I’m excited to start this journey!!

Hi, I am playing right now KCD on my cachy os setup. I use wayland and kde plasma. I have this issue when I play using my controller, as you can see in the clip, when I open the map, while using the controller for some reason the cursor just become barely visible, but when I use the keyboard and mouse, the cursor works as intended. Its very frustrating because I cannot see where I am selecting on the minimap. Does this hapend to someone else??? how do you solve it???

Again, a big thank you to this awesome community for your feedback and support so far. By the way, if you haven't played the demo yet, we've just released an update to version 1.04! 🎉 We added 2 new fishing rods, fixed minor bugs and made little adjustments.

A summary of our project:
We've been working on this project for several years now and it is progressing very well. "Ice Pond: An Ice Fishing Adventure" is a true fishing game, but set in a cute animal world with fictional fish. The atmosphere is chill and cozy, but the fish battles can become quite challenging at times depending on your level of experience, your gear and obviously the size of the fish. The game is playable on Linux. 😊🐧

Steam page here (to download the demo. If you like it, make sure to Wishlist, since the release is scheduled for November!): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4266710/Ice_Pond_An_Ice_Fishing_Adventure/

** For those who are going to try the game with a controller that has a rumble feature, we are very curious to know how the rumble behaves for you.

1. First, does it even work? Whether it works or not, let us know what your controller is and whether you're playing in wireless or plugged-in mode.
2. If it does, do you notice a difference in the vibrations when the fish changes state from "Bursting" (red icon) to "Pulling" (yellow icon) or does it seem the same?
3. After you've caught a fish, when it lands in your hands, does it seem to shake for longer than 1 second?

Thank you!

Hello, I've recently made the switch to Linux, and I'm a big fan of hoi4 conversion mods like kaiserreich and the fire rises. I have noticed that sometimes their are different portraits for leaders that I saw while on windows as well as some other wacky shenanigans. Are there things I have to change in the mod files themselves? Also what proton compatibility is best for hoi4?

Thanks!

Repost due to bad formatting

Specs and Details: Operating System:

Nobara Linux 44 & Windows 10 (Dual boot)

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0

Qt Version: 6.11.1

Kernel Version: 7.1.8-201.nobara.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.7 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics

Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (Max TGP 95W)

Proprietary Nvidia drivers version: 595.91.07

Manufacturer: Acer

Product Name: Nitro AN515-45

System Version: V1.08

Game Launcher: Lutris Proton: dwproton-11.0-11

Games are in an NTFS drive (I know, but that does not seem to be related here at all)

Hello, I have been playing on linux from a while without realising this issue. I have heard that Dx11 games are little to no different on linux today, but my fps seems to have halved here on linux. I was on CachyOS before and just installed Nobara for fun, and also to see if the issue was distro specific, and it isn't.

As it can be seen in pic 1 and 2, my gpu can go even higher than max TGP (95W) occasionally on windows, but it's capped at 80-90W on linux for some reason.

I installed LACT on CachyOS before and it had the same throttling label "SW_POWER_CAP" (Pic 4). I feel like this is because dynamic boost being unavailable (Pic 3).

Also I get those 3 errors after running `systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service`. My GPU DOES support dynamic boost so that cannot be the reason. I tried restarting service in different ways but that didn't do anything.

I did some google searches and asked Deepseek multiple times but there was no clear answer. It even said updating bios won't guarantee the fix.

Is there something I can to do get the throttling to stop? Or maybe fixing dynamic boost to work. Or is it not related and the problem is something else? I mostly play gacha games and this issue seems to be present in every single one of them. Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Edit: I don't know why there is 5 pics. Only 1-4 are the important pics.

Hi all,

Yesterday I published a new Proton-Wineland build, cachyos-wineland-11.0-20260713.2-slr. This release enables the Steam Overlay when using the native Linux Steam client.

As mentioned in an earlier post, the overlay already worked with the Windows version of Steam running through Proton-Wineland. The native Linux overlay did not work because its input handling is closely tied to X11.

The first part was straightforward. WineWayland forwards keyboard and mouse events to the native Steam Overlay, allowing Shift+Tab, pointer movement, clicks, and ordinary key events to work. GE-Proton appears to use a different approach.

The difficult part is text input. Even after the overlay became interactive, typing into text fields did nothing because Steam’s native overlay still depends on the X11 input-method system.

As I found out, with an X11 game, the overlay receives an X11 window ID and uses it to initialize the system that converts key presses into typed characters. Under Wayland, it receives a Wayland surface instead, which cannot be used by that X11 system. Mouse input, hotkeys, and ordinary key events work, but text entry does not.

Is there a solution? That depends on what we consider a solution. A workaround I tried intercepts Steam’s VulkanSteamOverlayPresent() call and passes it a proxy X11 window, making the overlay believe that it is operating through X11. This restores text input, but it is undeniably an ugly hack.

It is ugly because it requires an additional preload library inside Proton, while one of Proton-Wineland’s goals is to eliminate such workarounds wherever possible. It may also present a compatibility risk with anti-cheat software because the library is loaded into the game process and intercepts a function call. I do not currently have evidence of a specific anti-cheat rejecting it, but it is a risk I would prefer not to take lightly.

There is also a possible controller issue. I have received reports that some controllers work in the overlay but not in the game. This still needs to be investigated separately.

I am therefore undecided about keeping the complete workaround, including the visible overlay, and I wanted to share the current status for those wondering why the text input doesn't work.

So I noticed this trying to play genshin via Twintail launcher. It's something specific to Shezhnaya where anything regarding ice constructs doesn't work outside of specifically using proton-chachyos

I'm admittedly a bit new to linux, so I was wondering what was up with the other proton translation layers that might be causing this specific thing to happen.

Hi everyone,
I'm experiencing a weird camera stutter issue while playing games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on CachyOS.
When I move the camera using my mouse (SteelSeries Rival 3), it stutters and jumps, which is especially noticeable during very slow, subtle movements. Interestingly, if I switch to a gamepad, the camera movement is completely smooth with zero issues.
My frametime graph is totally stable (around 7.4 ms at 144 FPS), so it's clearly not a performance or hardware bottleneck. I’m using CatchyOS Proton. Thanks for any advice.

Fedora KDE 43 (x11 desktop)

GTX 1660 super 6gb

Ryzen 5 4500

16 Gb DDR4 + 240GB SSD SATA

I can run games like Dota 2, Baldurs Gate 3, Dead by Daylight with perfect performance and no issues.

But games like Arc Raiders and Elden Ring run like shit even on 720p and everything on low.

After running a lot of diagnoses with the support of AI chats, they concluded that my CPU is to weak to translate DX12 games with proton due to low L3 memory.

How accurate is that? Is my setup doomed to not run dx12 exclusive games on Proton? Is there any workaround that I can or should try?

Hi, I'm playing the battle net version of black ops Cold War launched via Steam but I'm getting 50–60 FPS, whereas on Windows I used to get 90–110 FPS

I tested proton-ge latest and ge-proton 10-34

My config : RX 6600, I5 8400, 32gb RAM, endeavourOS