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Can anyone recommend generic controllers that work with Linux? (lemmings.world)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by commander@lemmings.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I don't need anything special or pricey, just a basic controller that does basic controller things.

I've tried a few generic controllers, but they have issues with bluetooth, battery life, and automatically shutting off too early from idling.

Does anyone know of any generic controllers that don't have these issues? I don't mind if the battery life isn't the same or better than official controllers, but they shouldn't straight up lie about the capacity. It should be illegal.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All of these are complaints specific to wireless controllers (auto-shutoff to conserve battery, battery life, some sort or Bluetooth connectivity issue). Have you considered getting a wired, USB controller? Or using your existing one in USB mode, which most wireless controllers support?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I only use wired controllers, however my system (Mint) doesn't acknowledge controller input as standard input, so the screen saver comes on in 20 minutes or my machine goes to sleep after an hour while I play. I haven't figured out how to stop it yet.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

so the screen saver comes on in 20 minutes or my machine goes to sleep after an hour while I play. I haven’t figured out how to stop it yet.

The way I have my system set up is to not power-off the monitor unless the screensaver is up, but if it is, to flip the power off in pretty short order. I manually trigger the screensaver. So I don't know what people who do auto-locking and all do today.

kagis

https://github.com/foresto/joystickwake

This appears to do this on Xorg and Wayland for various screensavers and environments. I have not used it myself. I don't know if it's been packaged by anyone in Mint, though -- I don't see a package in Debian trixie, and if this site is the package repo for Mint -- I know that there are variations of Mint -- then I don't see it there. You can build, install, and set it up to run manually, I suppose.

I do see a reference to an Ubuntu package in a PPA at the bottom of their main page. One variant of Mint is based on Ubuntu; I don't know whether that means that one can get away with using Ubuntu packages or not.

https://launchpad.net/~foresto/+archive/ubuntu/toys

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You can run caffeine in Terminal while playing the game.

Also: gaming on linux

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

I didn't realise caffeine had a terminal utility, I use the gnome extension and love it

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

just an idea I have. to keep my pc from sleeping while streaming content to my other devices, I have a script that uses xdotool to move the cursor 1 pixel to the right and immediately back every 30 seconds if my network adapter has transferred some data. make (or ask chatgpt to make) a script that recognizes some of your controller inputs and then moves the mouse, or it could press XF86_wakeup key (this will cause problems in web excel). also it could trigger by just having the controller plugged in.