MoltenGamepad
Flexible Linux input device translator, geared for gamepads (by jgeumlek)
xpadneo
Advanced Linux Driver for Xbox One Wireless Controller (shipped with Xbox One S) (by atar-axis)
| MoltenGamepad | xpadneo | |
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| 18 | 111 | |
| 280 | 2,107 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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MoltenGamepad
Posts with mentions or reviews of MoltenGamepad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.
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Developers shipping broken ports and unfinished games (at a $70 price tag) has hit the sweet spot for linux gaming.
I have been messing with preseeding a debian install with the packages I need and maybe toying around with the kernel for native gamepad support. I found a project that appears to fix some of the gamepad support issue when trying to run emulated games from steam -gamepadui (passing controllers to Ryujinx or dolphin leads to disconnect issues).
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Controller players, What is your preferred controller?
I've been using MoltenGamepad (https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad) on Linux. It'll handle mapping all the buttons, IR, accel/gyro, nunchuck, etc. It works pretty well once you figure out the config files. I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for Windows though. IMO the a wiimote with the sensor bar works pretty good controlling the mouse for a media PC connected to your TV.
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Virtual Controller Input for Games?
I thought of this, but I am also using FFXIV Launcher and piping that through Steam seems to break wine. MoltenGamepad seems perfect so far, but I appreciate your suggestion!
- Need to Create a Dummy Controller
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Does anyone know how to emulate a controller with a HOTAS in Linux?
I did trip across MoltenGamepad, but I haven't really tried it out yet.
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Is there software for emulating controller with keyboard? Mostly interested because of the Steam Remote.
I found this project in another reddit thread, but it hasn't been updated since 2020: https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad
- How do you force a playstation controller to show up as an xbox controller for steam?
- help with moltengamepad assign?
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I have problems with my generic gamepad
I use https://github.com/jgeumlek/MoltenGamepad to make all of my pads behave like XBox360 controllers.
xpadneo
Posts with mentions or reviews of xpadneo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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Xbox Series S | X controllers aren't being detected on Fedora 38
In the other distros I've tried (ubuntu / pop os) I usually solve the problem by installing xpadneo using the official method that can be found here. But this doesn't seem to be working in this case. I've already tried using gnome bluetooth settings, blueman and bluetoothctl.
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XBox controller via bluetooth
That was more than a year ago though and it seems some people are working on linux drivers. xpadneo is probably a good starting point: https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo
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The 1622nd questions about connecting xbox controller to Linux. Updated firmware, using sysfsutils & xpadneo still failed.
If that doesn't work either, I would try making an issue on their github and asking there: https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo/issues
- Xbox Elite Series 2 controller not working on Ubuntu 22.04
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Linux Mint Xbox One controller default settings aren't very usable
2) install https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo
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Xbox Controller on EndevourOS.
This very same controller has worked on this very same physical computer in the past, but under Ubuntu using the xpadneo driver (https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo/). One day, for no reason as near as I can tell, it simply stopped working and showed the exact same symptoms as above (controller works for phone, not for PC, doesn't show up in bluetooth list. Other bluetooth devices work fine with the PC). This triggered my distro-hop to Endeavour just to discover the exact same issue.
- [Linux Gaming] Contrôleur Xbox Series X avec Linux
- Old laptop into media center
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SOMA through HeroicLauncher not detecting Xbox Series S Controller (xpadneo installed, controller working for every steam game)
You can try this custom mapping from xpadneo: https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo/blob/master/docs/SDL.md
- [Linux Gaming] Adaptateur de contrôleur sans fil Xbox sur Linux
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MoltenGamepad and xpadneo you can also consider the following projects:
sc-controller - User-mode driver and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller
xone - Linux kernel driver for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S accessories
XOutput - DirectInput to XInput wrapper
xpad - Linux Kernel Driver for the Xbox/ Xbox 360/ Xbox One Controllers
RAWeb - The RetroAchievements.org platform. Includes core functionality for managing achievements, game data, and community features.
xow - Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle
skyscraper - Powerful and versatile game scraper written in c++
XB1ControllerBatteryIndicator - A tray application that shows a battery indicator for an Xbox-ish controller and gives a notification when the battery level drops to (almost) empty.
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GIMX - The GIMX software.
python-evdev - Python bindings for the Linux input subsystem
dkms-hid-nintendo - dkms-hid-nintendo