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Basically just the title. Steam input is really fantastic for mapping controllers and I use it all the time, but for non steam games or other use cases I was wondering if there's another software that can do the same thing? I know I can still use steam for this and I do, it works great as well, I just like using open source!

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[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AntiMicroX (Flathub).

If you use Lutris as launcher, you can set what map profile to use for each game.

[-] degen@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

I didn't know lutris had that! I just wish it had an aggregate view of all libraries without games being installed. It seems to be the best for managing a diverse library, but I miss playnite sometimes.

[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I just wish it had an aggregate view of all libraries without games being installed.

Have you taken a look at Cartridges? Maybe it can do what you are looking for.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Never heard of Cartridges, very sleek and minimal, I like it. It's even part of Gnome Circles, I see!

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Lmao I have and just forgot about it apparently

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Playnite is the dopest. I miss it too.

Heroic Launcher is the closest thing that I've seen.

[-] degen@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

The epic store integration in Lutris never worked for me, so I end up using both lol

[-] none@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

InputPlumber is basically the same thing. OpenGamepadUI uses it in order to remap inputs, similar to how steam uses steam input.

[-] dirakon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am very happy with sc-controller, would 100% recommend trying it out https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller/

[-] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A not-very-user-friendly software is MoltenGamepad (https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad).

It is configured only via config files, but can take any input and create virtual gamepads (xbox gamepads can be specified) which works everywhere I've tried them in Linux.

I'm using it for playing gamepad-only games on my arcade machine, which has an ipac controller board acting as a USB keyboard. I can map keyboard buttons to the virtual controllers.

Also used it to play a game with physical gamepads that wasn't supported by that specific game.

this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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