The Faugus Launcher, a game launcher for Linux to manage Wine and Proton games, has been released in version 2.5.3.
New are auto-hide widgets, tooltips in the settings and significantly lower RAM usage when scrolling through large libraries. The previous version was 2.5.1.
Added/Changed
- Option to auto-hide widgets on the main screen
- Progress bar on the splash window, with updated strings
- Tooltips for most Settings options
- Most settings now apply in real time; those that still need a restart are marked with an asterisk
- Weekly gamecontrollerdb updates
- Categories in the Overview panel are sorted alphabetically
- Smooth scrolling and improved carousel animations
- Proton runners stay read-only during extraction
- Long game titles are truncated in List mode
- The absolute path is set for PROTONPATH
Fixed
- Some interface customization inconsistencies
- Keyboard and gamepad scrolling stopping before the end of the list
- Post-launch scripts being killed when a game closes
Performance
- Covers and banners load on demand and in a separate thread
- Images are resized to their display scale and memory is freed while scrolling
- Reduced rendering overhead from removed and modified visual effects
- Lower idle RAM (about 14% less at boot, about 84% less after scrolling) and much lower RAM use while scrolling in a 1,000-game Covers test, at the cost of higher CPU use while scrolling
Updated translations (Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Ukrainian)
Dependencies required for AppImage: pygobject gtk4 libadwaita libmanette
Source: GitHub