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GDLauncher is a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher with a strong focus on the user experience

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Nix/NixOS support #1496

Open lpuv opened 1 year ago

lpuv commented 1 year ago

[X] I searched the issue tracker for other issues covering my case.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No, just a request as the AppImage doesn't work, neither does the generic linux zip

Describe the solution you'd like A package in nixpkgs for gdlauncher!

Describe alternatives you've considered None.

Additional context When running gdlauncher via nix-alien, this happens

Eskaan commented 1 year ago

This is just a question of someone wants to go and make one, anyone can do that.

andOrlando commented 1 year ago

Nice seeing more nix users around here! I actually already made a simple derivation here if you want to just use this. I haven't actually committed it to nixpkgs personally because I feel like it might be annoying to maintain and I'm probably not doing it correctly, but it does work if you import it in your configuration.

I do have that issue where it can't bypass cloudflare on nixos, but I'm not sure if that's a linux/nixos exclusive issue or not.

Eskaan commented 1 year ago

Thanks, that is at least a start! The Cloudflare issue is commonly known and System independent.

PassiveLemon commented 1 year ago

I am able to get it started by making a .desktop file which runs the appimage with "appimage-run" from the Nix packages. A few things to note:

Downloads are incredibly slow. (I's possible they are just always this slow on Linux or something else is going on but I don't remember them being this slow on Windows.)
- EDIT: Upon some research, this is actually a recent issue because of how minecraft data is being downloaded. This should be fixed in an upcoming release, so for now, use the beta and see if it is resolved.
Sometimes, you may get the "GPU process isn't available" error. Just run the appimage with "--no-sandbox".

An "official" solution in the Nix packages would be ideal of course since these workarounds can be janky sometimes

PassiveLemon commented 1 year ago

Nice seeing more nix users around here! I actually already made a simple derivation here if you want to just use this. I haven't actually committed it to nixpkgs personally because I feel like it might be annoying to maintain and I'm probably not doing it correctly, but it does work if you import it in your configuration.

I do have that issue where it can't bypass cloudflare on nixos, but I'm not sure if that's a linux/nixos exclusive issue or not.

When importing this into my configurations, I get an infinite recursion error.

Eskaan commented 1 year ago

with --no-sandbox

I experienced a similar problem getting VS Code to run on the school PCs, I used --no-gpu-sandbox. Does that work too?

PassiveLemon commented 1 year ago

Both work for me but I'm unsure if there is a difference between them.