h3mul/playkey-linux-launcher

wrapper for running Playkey on Linux

Description

Wrapper for comfortably using Playkey cloud gaming platform under Linux

Problem statement

Main problems of running Playkey Launcher on Linux:

1. Playkey site requires browser User-Agent to be Windows or Mac OS

Solved by using chrome extension to send Windows User-Agent

2. Playkey site passes arguments to the Playkey Launcher by using xdg-open link, which is only supported by chromium or google-chrome

Solved by using chromium browser in the package

3. The xdg-open program doesn't support link fromat provided by Playkey site, or Playkey Launcher isn't configured as a link handler of format playkey://*

Solved with custom python script that parses link and calls Playkey launcher with parsed arguments. That script then is added to the PATH variable when chromium is started.

Requirements

Build:

innoextract
wget

Run:

chromium
wine
python3
winetricks
openal
lib32-openal

Installation

Arch Linux

From aur:

yay -S playkey-linux

Or from github:

git clone https://github.com/vilkoz/playkey-linux-launcher.git
cd playkey-linux-launcher
makepkg -si PKGBUILD

Other Linux disros

git clone https://github.com/vilkoz/playkey-linux-launcher.git
cd playkey-linux-launcher
sudo make install

To uninstall use sudo make uninstall