Support for Bottles Wine Prefixes

[Heus-Sueh]

What's your idea?

Support for prefixes created by Bottles

The program would scan for wine prefixes in this directory:
~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles

you would also have to give permission for flatpak to be able to access this folder

[mtkennerly]

Hi! I'm not too familiar with Bottles. Is there some metadata that ties each prefix to a specific game, or is it an ad hoc/manual thing where you could install one or more games in a single prefix? If they're essentially normal Wine prefixes, then you could configure them in Ludusavi as a Wine prefix root with a glob pattern in the path. However, that would make the scan much slower, since it would have to scan every prefix for every game without some way to narrow it down.

[Heus-Sueh]

Hi! I'm not too familiar with Bottles. Is there some metadata that ties each prefix to a specific game, or is it an ad hoc/manual thing where you could install one or more games in a single prefix? If they're essentially normal Wine prefixes, then you could configure them in Ludusavi as a Wine prefix root with a glob pattern in the path. However, that would make the scan much slower, since it would have to scan every prefix for every game without some way to narrow it down.

yes, you can install games in the same wineprefix, in this case the wine prefix that the user creates is in this directory: /var/home/<user>/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles

[VashStampedeTRI14]

Hope this helps but within this folder /home/< user >/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/ is a library.yml file that looks like below. This contains the list of all prefixes created within bottles.

61907121-a070-4297-a2d5-a350c7197314:
bottle:
name: Diablo IV
path: Diablo-IV
icon: /home/< user >/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/Diablo-IV/icons/Battle.net.png
id: 2cd58ae9-15fd-41ab-b8c1-28af81cca37f
name: Battle.net
thumbnail: grid:b434b1ad-1377-4e56-9232-d021e9ab4148.png
d76a3e35-1d27-4e78-bfd2-ad39d2cda244:
bottle:
name: Grim Dawn
path: Grim-Dawn
icon: /home/< user >/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/Grim-Dawn/icons/Grim
Dawn.png
id: d907daf0-af13-45ac-85bc-3b10d512397e
name: Grim Dawn
thumbnail: grid:7e73de6d-fd7b-4b1d-ae51-7d7206dfe667.png

Then within each wine prefix is a bottles.yml which contains the .exe, name, ect. Example of this:

Arch: win64
CompatData: ''
Creation_Date: '2023-10-09 16:38:09.736543'
Custom_Path: false
DLL_Overrides: {}
DXVK: dxvk-2.3
Environment: Gaming
Environment_Variables: {}
External_Programs:
d907daf0-af13-45ac-85bc-3b10d512397e:
arguments: ''
dxvk: true
dxvk_nvapi: false
executable: Grim Dawn.exe
folder: /home/< user >/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/Grim-Dawn/drive_c/GOG
Games/Grim Dawn
fsr: false
icon: com.usebottles.bottles-program
id: d907daf0-af13-45ac-85bc-3b10d512397e
name: Grim Dawn
path: /home/< user >/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/Grim-Dawn/drive_c/GOG
Games/Grim Dawn/Grim Dawn.exe
pulseaudio_latency: false
removed: null
script: null
virtual_desktop: false
vkd3d: true
Installed_Dependencies:

• d3dx9
• msls31
• arial32
• times32
• courie32
• d3dcompiler_43
• d3dcompiler_47
• vcredist2010
• vcredist2012
• vcredist2013
• vcredist2015
  Language: sys
  LatencyFleX: latencyflex-v0.1.1
  NVAPI: dxvk-nvapi-v0.6.4
  Name: Grim Dawn
  Parameters:
  custom_dpi: 96
  decorated: true
  discrete_gpu: true
  dxvk: true
  dxvk_nvapi: false
  fixme_logs: false
  fsr: false
  fsr_quality_mode: none
  fsr_sharpening_strength: 2
  fullscreen_capture: false
  gamemode: false
  gamescope: false
  gamescope_borderless: false
  gamescope_fps: 0
  gamescope_fps_no_focus: 0
  gamescope_fullscreen: true
  gamescope_game_height: 0
  gamescope_game_width: 0
  gamescope_scaling: false
  gamescope_window_height: 0
  gamescope_window_width: 0
  latencyflex: false
  mangohud: false
  mouse_warp: true
  obsvkc: false
  pulseaudio_latency: false
  renderer: gl
  sandbox: false
  sync: esync
  take_focus: false
  use_be_runtime: true
  use_eac_runtime: true
  use_runtime: false
  use_steam_runtime: false
  versioning_automatic: false
  versioning_compression: false
  versioning_exclusion_patterns: false
  virtual_desktop: false
  virtual_desktop_res: 1280x720
  vkbasalt: false
  vkd3d: true
  vmtouch: false
  vmtouch_cache_cwd: false
  Path: Grim-Dawn
  Runner: lutris-GE-Proton8-17-x86_64
  RunnerPath: ''
  Sandbox:
  share_net: false
  share_sound: false
  State: 0
  Uninstallers: {}
  Update_Date: '2023-10-10 07:28:56.519460'
  VKD3D: vkd3d-proton-2.10
  Versioning: false
  Versioning_Exclusion_Patterns: []
  Windows: win7
  WorkingDir: ''
  data: {}
  run_in_terminal: false
  session_arguments: ''

[LordFransie]

I have this working manually.
You'd literally just need to modify the initializing script to scan for directories in ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles or the flatpack directory.

[bpjoestar]

I have this working manually. You'd literally just need to modify the initializing script to scan for directories in ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles or the flatpack directory.

I love ludusavi and it'd be great if it searches in the bottles dir by default.
How did you change it manually? Do I just give Ludusavi the permission with Flatseal to search in ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles?