Waxlight is packaged as a Nix flake for NixOS and other Nix-based Linux systems on x86_64-linux. The package builds the launcher with GTK3 and WebKitGTK 4.1; no steam-run, nix-ld, or manual library setup is required.

Run without installing

With flakes enabled, start the latest source revision directly:

nix run github:AmadoMuerte/Waxlight-launcher

Install into your user profile

nix profile install github:AmadoMuerte/Waxlight-launcher

This also adds Waxlight to the desktop application launcher. To remove it later:

nix profile remove Waxlight-launcher

Use from a NixOS flake

Add Waxlight as an input and include its package in environment.systemPackages:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    waxlight.url = "github:AmadoMuerte/Waxlight-launcher";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, waxlight, ... }: {
    nixosConfigurations.my-machine = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      modules = [
        ({ pkgs, ... }: {
          environment.systemPackages = [ waxlight.packages.${pkgs.system}.default ];
        })
      ];
    };
  };
}

Data and updates

User data stays in the normal XDG directories, including ~/.config/waxlight/. Instances, mods, logs, configuration, and account sessions are never written into the immutable Nix store.

The launcher self-updater is disabled for Nix installations: Waxlight must not replace an executable inside /nix/store. Update the package through Nix instead:

nix profile upgrade Waxlight-launcher

For the complete first-run flow, continue with Getting started.