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better-xcloud-nix

A Nix flake providing a standalone Chromium wrapper for Better xCloud.

Current State

Functional. The flake builds a shell script wrapper that deploys a pre-configured Chromium profile and launches the browser with required extensions.

Versions

Nixpkgs: nixos-unstable
Violentmonkey: v2.49.0 (Manifest V3)
Better xCloud: v6.7.12 (State saved within preferences.tar.gz)

How It Works

The flake uses fetchzip to download the Violentmonkey extension release.
writeShellScriptBin generates the executable wrapper script.
Upon execution, the script checks for the existence of $HOME/.config/better-xcloud-wrapper.
If the profile directory is missing, it extracts the local preferences.tar.gz archive into this path. This archive contains the required browser settings, Violentmonkey configuration, and the installed Better xCloud userscript.
The script executes Chromium, passing the downloaded extension via --load-extension and the extracted profile via --user-data-dir. This isolates the application from your primary browser state.