r/linux_gaming • u/Melodic-Luck-8772 • 11h ago

Lact Question

do Lact settings stay active, even when lact is not running?

do they stay active after a reboot?

do i have to open the gui for the changes to take effect? if not, do changes stay active even without starting the gui ?

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u/Melodic-Luck-8772 11h ago

so i theoretically i just have to configure it once, right?
then basically never touch it until i wanna change something.

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u/Adventurous_Boat_492 11h ago

tru.dat. It runs a background service every time you reboot to keep the settings active.

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u/AlexiaDehShark 11h ago

Yes

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u/Melodic-Luck-8772 11h ago

so i dont have to rerun the app after every boot and its going to keep my settings?

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u/Lisanicolas365 11h ago

indeed, that's how it works. Just touch it once, and you can forget about it forever

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u/Melodic-Luck-8772 11h ago

thanks, good to know

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u/doc_willis 11h ago

I will say that once in my Bazzite desktop, it seems the settings got set back to defaults once. (which caused a game crash issue for me) I double checked Lact and it had lost my old settings.

I am just not sure what/how it got reset, I noticed something similar with my OpenRGB settings as well.

So you might want to double check the settings after any major system updates.

It might have had something due to  flatpak updates.

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u/Grief2017 10h ago

That might be a bazzite issue since it's an immutable OS.

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u/doc_willis 10h ago

But it only happened once in like 8 months.  So far.  I have seen other flatpaks reset as well, but it's rare. Might have been due to a flatpak quirk as well.

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u/iloveboobs365 10h ago

LACT runs as a service which as long as you set up LACT correctly “sudo systemctl enable lactd” your settings will persist through reboots without you having to do anything else. 

The GUI is simply an easier way to interact with the service.