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GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service that allows users to play games through a browser or dedicated apps, connecting to digital distribution platforms like Steam and Epic Games. It supports Chromium-based browsers and provides methods for adjusting keyboard layouts and User-Agent strings for better compatibility on Linux. Users can edit settings through web extensions or launch Chromium with specific commands to enhance their experience on the platform.

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GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service that allows users to play games through a browser or dedicated apps, connecting to digital distribution platforms like Steam and Epic Games. It supports Chromium-based browsers and provides methods for adjusting keyboard layouts and User-Agent strings for better compatibility on Linux. Users can edit settings through web extensions or launch Chromium with specific commands to enhance their experience on the platform.

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GeForce Now
GeForce Now is a cloud gaming services that lets users play video games in the browser Related articles
(including on Arch Linux) and on dedicated apps available on other platforms.
Gaming#Remote gaming
Unlike other cloud gaming platforms, GeForce Now connects to video game digital distribution
Chromium
services such as Steam and the Epic game store, where games have to be bought separately from
the GeForce Now subscription. Given the nature of Cloud Gaming, you will not need to install the
client from these services on your computer.

1 Usage
GeForce Now supports (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/system-reqs/) Chromium-based browsers out of the box, it
should work for most people on Chromium.

Note: While it is possible to change the User-Agent string to have your favorite browser appear as Chromium, it may not work
correctly (some user have reported that the mouse cursor would not appear in games when running Firefox).

2 Non-qwerty keyboard layout


As of October 2021, the setting to change keyboard layout may not be visible when accessing GeForce Now on Linux.

In some cases, the following steps allow to access this setting by making Chromium appear to run on Windows.

2.1 Edit indexDB


The values for the keyboard layout are saved in the indexDB, in the database "gfnclient" in the objectstore "sharedStore". You can
use a webextension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/indexeddbedit/npjecebdjnmlolggnoajngnlodhgpfac, to edit
this values. Simply install the extension, reload play.geforcenow.com. Now open Dev-Tools (F12) and find the database with the
objcetstore. Here you can add a key for "keyboardLayout" with the proper value for your language. German example:

{
"key": "keyboardLayout",
"value": {
"name": "Deutsch",
"code": "de-DE"
}
},

After saving, reload the page and you are done.

As an alternative, a user-proivded extension (https://codeberg.org/Offerel/GFN_Keyboard_Layout) exists, with all the currently


pre-defined layouts from the GFN page. Since this extension is not in the Chrome Webstore, you must sideload it as unpacked
extension.

2.2 Launch Chromium with disabled User-Agent Client Hint


User-Agent Client Hint (https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-ch) is a new feature on Chromium-based browser designed to
improve over User-Agent strings. Unfortunately, because it is new, there is not yet an extension that let users change it. To disable
this feature, launch Chrome or Chromium this way :

$ chromium --disable-features=UserAgentClientHint

Note: Using this command, the website can only rely on a User-Agent string to determine your OS, which will be dealt with in the
next step.

2.3 Change your User-Agent string to make your OS appears as Windows


Warning: Web extensions can access your browsing data, please check extension permissions before installing them. On
Chromium, always use the Chrome Webstore, but be aware that not all extensions in the Chrome Webstore are reviewed by
Google.

Multiple extensions exist to switch the User-Agent string, they can be installed using the Chrome Webstore. While Google provides
one of these, it seems to not reliably alter the User-Agent string, notably on GeForce Now. User-Agent Switcher and Manager (http
s://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-and-m/bhchdcejhohfmigjafbampogmaanbfkg) is another
extension with this feature. The Firefox version being recommended by Mozilla, it seems trustworthy enough.

This later extension provides a list of common User-Agent strings to choose from. Selecting the first "Chrome on Windows" one will
work. If you are using another extension, a User-Agent string such as this one will work :

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.7113.93 Safari/537.36

Tip: User-Agent strings contain the version of the web browser. If you read this article in the future, you may have to find a
newer one to have your browser appear up to date.

2.4 Access the keyboard layout setting


With these steps applied, the keyboard layout settings will be available in the main settings panel, below the Network settings.

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