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.