UwUnyaa / gfn-electron

Linux Desktop client for Nvidia's GeForce NOW game streaming service

About

Unofficial client for Nvidia's GeForce NOW game streaming service, providing a native Linux desktop experince and some additional features such as Discord rich presence.

Disclaimer

This project and its contributors are not affiliated with Nvidia, nor it's GeForce NOW product. This repository does not contain any Nvidia / GeForce NOW software. It is simply an Electron wrapper that loads the official GFN web application page, just as it would in a regular web browser.

Installation

Manual Installation

• Go to the latest release.
• Download the specific file that best fits your disto.

Usage

If you've installed it through a package manager, then you can launch it directly from your desktop environment. You can also run geforcenow (or io.github.hmlendea.geforcenow-electron if you're using flatpak) in the terminal.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Super + F / F11: Toggles the fullscreen mode (Fullscreen is always forced ON while gaming)
• ALT + F4 / F4: Exits app
• ALT + Home: Switches back to the GeForce NOW Home page
• CTRL + M: Toggles the microphone
• F12: Toggles chrome dev tools

Command-line arguments

• --spoof-chromeos: Uses a ChromeOS UserAgent string
• --spoof-windows: Uses a Windows UserAgent string
• --disable-rpc: Disables the Discord Rich Presence

Changing the keyboard layout

Currently NVIDIA doesn't allow changing the keyboard layout on Linux.

In order to get access to that setting, use one of the UA-spoofing CLI arguments mentioned above.

Discord Rich Presence

Discord RPC should work out-of-the-box in most situations, with no user input required. The exceptional cases are documented below.

Native GFN + Flatpak Discord

Run the following commands in a terminal: (source)

mkdir -p ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d
echo 'L %t/discord-ipc-0 - - - - app/com.discordapp.Discord/discord-ipc-0' > ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/discord-rpc.conf
systemctl --user enable --now systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

Disabling the Discord RPC

Currently, the only way to disable it is to use the --disable-rpc command-line argument (documented above)

In order to make this permanent, you can edit the applications desktop file launcher and add that argument to the Exec line

Building from source

Requirements

You will need to install npm, the Node.js package manager. On most distributions, the package is simply called npm.

Cloning the source code

Once you have npm, clone the wrapper to a convenient location:

git clone https://github.com/hmlendea/gfn-electron.git

Building

npm install
npm start

On subsequent runs, npm start will be all that's required.

Updating the source code

Simply pull the latest version of master and install any changed dependencies:

git checkout master
git pull
npm install

Links

• GeForce NOW
• FlatHub release
• FlatHub repository