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SDL2 Gamepad Tool, an alternative to Steam Big Picture configurator

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Today I was sent a link to SDL2 Gamepad Tool from Seru on Discord, it's described as an alternative to the Steam Big Picture configurator for gamepads.

It's being developed by General Arcade, a porting house and game development studio. Sadly, it's not open source, but it does seem to work rather well and it's simple to use which makes me really like it.

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It's an interesting one, as it has all the button mapping done for you from this github. It also auto updates from that list.

It's available in a tar.gz. a deb and a snap package so it will suit all distributions. I tested it out on Arch and it worked to perfection. It picked up my Logitech F310 instantly. This might be my new go-to application when games have funky gamepad support and they use SDL.

If you're having problems with gamepad support in games that use SDL, it might be worth giving it a shot. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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DaiKaiser93 Mar 10, 2017
Quoting: Alm888
Quoting: DaiKaiser93I try to install it with "sudo apt-get install qt5-default" but I get this:

Spoiler, click me
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
console-setup : Depends: console-setup-linux but it is not going to be installed
Depends: keyboard-configuration (= 1.108ubuntu15.3) but it is not going to be installed
nvidia-prime : Depends: mdm but it is not going to be installed or
lightdm (>= 1.9.1) but it is not going to be installed or
gdm but it is not going to be installed or
kdm but it is not installable or
sddm but it is not going to be installed
pkg-config : Depends: dpkg-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdpkg-perl but it is not going to be installed
qt5-default : Depends: qtbase5-dev
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Any ideas?

I don't know how Ubuntu works (never used it) but it would appear you have several errors.

console-setup, nvidia-prime and pkg-config -- all have some dependency conflicts. I don't know what do they do, but it seems these packages were installed but were not configured properly because they are waiting for required packages to be installed (e.g. "nvidia-prime" is waiting for some sort of display manager to be available but you do not have any??? Or you do have "lightdm" but it is too old). They are preventing any progress till their issues are resolved. Try adding --force or --no-deps or similar key (see help) to bypass this safety measure.

Next, as for qt itself. Check this handy site. According to it "libQt5Widgets.so.5" is being provided (under Ubuntu 16.04) by libqt5widgets5_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2_amd64.deb and its 32bit counterpart. You probably need both.

And don't touch "qt5-default". It depends on "qtbase5-dev" -- a development package. They are for development, not run-time libraries.

Apparently libqt5core5 was broken so complete removal & installation fixed the broken dependencies but apparenty the newest version that gives me is (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2)and this actually needs 5.6, so I'm unable to use it ATM either way thank's for your response
Alm888 Mar 10, 2017
Quoting: DaiKaiser93Apparently libqt5core5 was broken so complete removal & installation fixed the broken dependencies but apparenty the newest version that gives me is (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2)and this actually needs 5.6, so I'm unable to use it ATM either way thank's for your response

Well, there are always backports. Just in case something is too progressive. ^͜^
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