I can't enable "Show Windows games"

[Ahmed-E-86]

I can't enable "Show Windows games" from preferences, it tells me to install Wine to enable this feature, but I have wine-staging installed on my system.

I use Kubuntu 20.04, and I installed Minigalaxy from Flatpak. Is that what causes this issue? Do I need to install WINE as Flatpak as well?

[Ahmed-E-86]

I installed the latest deb installer, and I didn't encounter this issue. It is my fault.

[Ahmed-E-86]

I have some questions if you don't mind: How can I use custom wine-prefix for any game? How can I set pre-launch commands? (that will also help with the previous question) Does Minigalaxy install DXVK, and all the required Redist for each game? Can I play Qwent without having to use GOG Galaxy launcher?

[sharkwouter]

Yeah, the flatpak doesn't currently support running Windows games unfortunately. Setting the wine version used could be useful, though, but currently it always uses the wine command available in your path.

[Ahmed-E-86]

I had a similar situation with Flatpak before, I installed fwupd from Flatpak, and Discover couldn't interact with it, and I got errors because of that, so I installed fwupd from Snap instead, and they can interact with each others without any issues. I know that there a lot of people who hate Snap, but it is better in these situations.

Could you please answer my previous questions? That will help me a lot of getting a good view of what the application can do. Thanks in advance.

[sharkwouter]

To clarify, Minigalaxy just uses your system's wine to make prefixes and it does nothing special with them. There is currently a bug which breaks some Windows games, based on the name, but there is a PR to fix this. You can access the wine setting per game.

[arrowgent]

you can edit

/home/$USER/.config/minigalaxy/config.json

and force

"show_windows_games": true,

although if minigalaxy doesnt properly detect your wine, the "install" will fail personally this is fine with me, i just want the full list of the games i own

as for flatpak & snap packages each package is a uniquely seperate sandboxed enviornment that does not in any way interact with any other application or software from any other part of your system it is sandboxed.

[sharkwouter]

@arrowgent after thinking about this for a little while, I think you may be onto something. The user could also be shown an errorr message. This is not the highest priority right now, but I will put it on the list for 0.9.6

[Victor239]

Yeah, the flatpak doesn't currently support running Windows games unfortunately.

Is this an issue with Minigalaxy itself, Flatpak or something else? Would like to see where I can track this issue.

[sharkwouter]

Flatpak cannot software installed on the system and the Minigalaxy flatpak package does not contain wine. That's why it doesn't work. Minigalaxy looks for the wine command in the path to determine if it can use wine.

[Taffer]

Flatseal is a tool for mucking with Flatpak app permissions, including which bits of the host filesystem it can access, what environment variables are set, etc. Maybe adding /usr/bin (or wherever your WINE lives) to the normal Flatpak app path would help?

I haven't had any luck yet, but I haven't dug up the Flatpak sandbox PATH setting. Setting it to PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin in Flatseal made Minigalaxy stop launching... I assume the sandbox isn't expanding the $PATH in there.

[sharkwouter]

The flatpak package has been updated to allow Windows games to be installed and a clearer error message was added for systems which do not have wine installed with the last release. I'd say this issue should have been resolved.