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ArtMoon

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ArtMoon is a gamepad-first streaming client built on Moonlight. It streams games and other applications from another PC running Sunshine, Apollo or GeForce Experience, with a native companion integration for ArtLight on the host.

Features include:

  • Hardware accelerated video decoding with VAAPI, VDPAU, and Vulkan Video support
  • H.264, HEVC, and AV1 codec support
  • 7.1 surround sound audio support
  • 10-point multitouch support
  • Gamepad-first interface with force feedback for up to 16 players
  • Support for both pointer capture (for games) and direct mouse control (for remote desktop)
  • Support for passing system-wide keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab to the host
  • Per-host profiles, per-game overrides, and native display refresh-rate detection

Authors: onaiaku

Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)

Usage

ArtMoon is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!

AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.

This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.

Running ArtMoon on Linux without installation

Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.

Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!

Download the ArtMoon AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:

chmod +x ./*.AppImage

Then double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.

Sandboxing ArtMoon

If you want to restrict what ArtMoon can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.

Updating ArtMoon

If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new ArtMoon AppImage.

Integrating AppImages into the system

If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see ArtMoon and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.

Note for application authors

Thanks for distributing ArtMoon in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.

Pro Tips for further enhancing the ArtMoon AppImage

Please consider to add update information to the ArtMoon AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.

Please consider making the ArtMoon AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.

Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/ArtMoon if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.

If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.

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