Hello. I just installed Lutris for the first time. From the tutorials I’ve seen, Lutris should be available as a source under “sources”. I went to preferences to try to enable it, but couldn’t find it anywhere. I am just trying to look at the games the Lutris library has to offer. Any help is appreciated!
Not there in 0.5.17 - seems to have been removed??? no idea why
I worked out whats up with this a while back and made a post on my blog but forgot to follow up here. Seems to have been moved to being behind an environment variable? If you set the environment variable LUTRIS_SERVICE_ENABLED=1 it should show up just like it did before.
I assume “those that know just know”, but I’m a novice so I don’t “know” so please forgive me if this question is dumb lol! So where does one “set the environment variable LUTRIS_SERVICE_ENABLED=1”? I’m using EndeavourOS with GNOME+Wayland. Thank you in advance.
Looks like GNOME doesn’t implement a GUI way of changing this sadly. You can still do it manually though. You should be able to find the .desktop file for Lutris in either /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications and edit it. It should be as simple as changing the line “Exec=lutris %U” to “Exec=env LUTRIS_SERVICE_ENABLED=1 lutris %U”.
As an aside, I think the recommendation if one doesn’t exist in ~/.local/share/applications is to copy the one from /usr/share/applications there and edit the copy. This way the edited one doesn’t apply to other users on the system or potentially get overwritten by updates. To my knowledge there’s no technical reason preventing you from editing the one in /usr/share/applications though.