Setting Custom Game Icons in Desura

I just discovered Desura’s Linux client and, given the opportunity to have a DRM-free package repository system for my Humble Bundle games, I jumped at the chance.

Of course, I still wanted to keep all my games together in one launcher menu, so I went looking for a way to give the manually installed things like Super Meat Boy proper icons. Luckily, Desura turned out to have a pretty simple approach to specifying icons. Just a couple of columns in an ordinary SQLite database.

Here’s a little Python script I wrote which, in theory, should let you set/change the icon on ANY game in your Linux Desura library. I’ve only tested it on local ones though.

CC BY-SA 4.0 Setting Custom Game Icons in Desura by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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2 Responses to Setting Custom Game Icons in Desura

  1. Cyberworm says:

    Thank you for this script! Works like a charm!

    • Glad I could help.

      It’s trickier (I already tried and failed) but, if I can ever find the time to poke through the Desurium source code to learn what I did wrong, I want to extend the script so it’ll even add the entries for you. (So you can just run it and have every entry in the Games section of your menu automatically added to Desura and any games you’ve uninstalled automatically removed)

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