About
Unofficial client for GeForce NOW, written as an Electron wrapper around GFN's web browser implementation.
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
- 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