gintonic
gintonic - is a lightweight game launcher, that works in a terminal. It is designed to be fast, to be comfortable for keyboard users and to work through ssh.
Features
- Support of VIM-style keys
- Search history
- Script based confguration
- Preview of thumbnails
Requirements
- python
- w3m-img (optional, for images previews)
Installation
- Download gintonic
- Place a config file named config into ~/.gintonic
Example:
[CONFIG]
path_to_games = /home/user/games
run_dos = ./dos.sh {0}
path_to_games - is a path to games.
Directory with the games should have the following structure:
System1
|- Game1
|- Game2
|-thumbnails
|- Game3
System2
|- Game1
|-thumbnails
Where:
SystemX - is the name of a system (DOS, NES, etc).
GameX - is the name of a game.
thumbnails - is an optional subfolder with images.
run_system - specifies a command to run a game on a particular system. {0} is substituted by an absolute path of a game.
Run
- python gintonic.py
If you use gintonic over ssh, run ssh with -X param to have images. For exit - press q.