# Matoking/protontricks

A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.

Repository: https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/protontricks
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: proton, winetricks, python3, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-18T16:39:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2927, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2297, forks 51 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:35.196034+00:00)

## What it is
Protontricks is a wrapper script that lets you run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games, plus other common Wine features like launching external Windows executables. It offers both a command-line interface and a GUI, and is useful when a game needs runtime libraries not bundled with Proton.

## Use cases
- install windows runtime libraries for a proton game
- run winetricks verbs for steam play games
- launch an external windows exe with a game's proton prefix
- find a steam game's app id from the command line
- fix a proton game missing closed-source dependencies
- manage wine prefixes for steam games on linux

## When to choose
- you play Windows games through Steam Proton on Linux and need Winetricks
- a game requires extra runtime libraries or components not shipped with Proton
- you want a simple CLI or GUI to manage Proton prefixes

## When to avoid
- you don't use Steam or Proton
- you need general-purpose Wine prefix management outside Steam
- you're on Windows or macOS without a Wine/Proton setup

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, gui, developer-tools
- domain: gaming-tools, operating-systems
- platform: cli, python
- tags: proton, winetricks, steam, wine, steam-play, gaming, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- Matoking/protontricks (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.196034+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:40:17.770817+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.196034+00:00, sha 95ded027a596)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/protontricks/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:33.060319+00:00, sha 810819f40c0c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.