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funman300 7de6f6d938 Fix launcher/download bugs, add README and Cargo.lock

- launcher: set PROTONPATH to full install path for pinned Proton versions;
  the raw tag name doesn't resolve when umu-run looks it up.
- proton: stream GE-Proton tarballs straight to disk instead of buffering
  ~600 MB in RAM via .bytes(); add error_for_status() on all HTTP calls so
  rate limits and 404s surface clearly; avoid UTF-8 trap on tar args.
- config: fail loudly when $HOME is unset instead of silently writing a Wine
  prefix under /tmp.
- diagnose: replace stat+id shell-out with MetadataExt::uid().
- tray: grab handle() before spawn() consumes the service (the repo didn't
  compile against ksni 0.2 as shipped).
- launcher/diagnose: escape the dot in "battle.net" pgrep patterns so the
  match doesn't false-positive on our own "battlenet-manager" binary; pipe
  pgrep/pkill stdio to /dev/null so PID lists don't leak into our output.
- proton: handle empty release list in pick_interactively cleanly.
- Add README, .gitignore, and commit Cargo.lock for reproducible builds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-04-16 17:18:54 -07:00

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battlenet-manager

A small system-tray daemon and CLI for running the Battle.net launcher on Linux via umu-launcher and GE-Proton.

Features

Tray icon with Launch / Kill / Update-Proton menu (KDE, GNOME+AppIndicator, Xfce, any SNI-capable desktop).
Background poller that reflects Battle.net's running state in the tray.
update-proton subcommand that downloads GE-Proton releases directly from GitHub and installs them under the Steam compat tools directory.
diagnose subcommand that sanity-checks the environment (umu-run, prefix, Proton install, Vulkan, display server, stale agent.lock).

Install

cargo build --release
install -Dm755 target/release/battlenet-manager ~/.local/bin/battlenet-manager

Requires umu-launcher and tar on PATH. On Arch:

sudo pacman -S umu-launcher vulkan-tools

The Battle.net Launcher.exe itself is not bundled — run your existing battlenet-umu-setup.sh (or install it manually into the prefix) before first launch.

Usage

Command	What it does
`battlenet-manager`	Start the tray daemon (default)
`battlenet-manager launch`	Launch Battle.net and return (for `.desktop` shortcuts)
`battlenet-manager kill`	SIGTERM → wait 3 s → SIGKILL on all Battle.net procs
`battlenet-manager diagnose`	Run environment health checks
`battlenet-manager update-proton`	Interactive GE-Proton picker
`update-proton --latest`	Install newest GE-Proton release
`update-proton --version X`	Install a specific tag (e.g. `GE-Proton10-34`)
`update-proton --list`	Show recent releases without installing

Config

Lives at ~/.config/battlenet-manager/config.toml, written with defaults on first run:

prefix_dir = "~/Games/battlenet-umu"
proton_version = "GE-Proton"        # or a pinned tag like "GE-Proton10-34"
gameid = "umu-battlenet"
proton_compat_dir = "~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d"

proton_version = "GE-Proton" tells umu-launcher to auto-fetch the latest on each run. Setting it to a specific tag (done automatically by update-proton) pins that version.