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Improving Your KinitoPET Experience on Linux

By Professor Sex

Making Kinito a better experience on Linux

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

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1 Sep @ 11:12pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Fixing the Black Wallpaper

Step 1 – Convert Your Image

Step 2 – Place the Image in Proton’s Virtual Drive

Step 3 – Edit the Windows Registry with Protontricks

Redirecting Bliss Ending Files to Another Folder

Step 1 – Remove the Original Folder

Step 2 – Create a Symlink

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Fixing the Black Wallpaper

For this, you’ll need Protontricks and an image of your choice (preferably the same wallpaper you normally use on your desktop).

Step 1 – Convert Your Image

Windows saves your wallpaper as .bmp image, you'll need to have your picture in the same format. If you don't, convert it using an image editor or converter.

Step 2 – Place the Image in Proton’s Virtual Drive

Locate Proton’s virtual C: drive for KinitoPET. By default, it should be in:

/home/yourusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2075070/pfx/drive_c/

If you can’t find it, use Protontricks to look up KinitoPET’s app ID and then search for that number in your compatdata folder.

Place your .bmp wallpaper inside this folder, and rename it to wallpaper.bmp for convenience.

Step 3 – Edit the Windows Registry with Protontricks

Open Protontricks.
Select KinitoPET → Select the default wineprefix.
Launch regedit.

In the Registry Editor, navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Create a new String Value called Wallpaper.
Set its value to:
c:\\wallpaper.bmp

It should look like this:

Now you have your wallpaper on KinitoPET

Redirecting Bliss Ending Files to Another Folder

By default, KinitoPET saves its encrypted files here:
%appdata%\KinitoPET\Files

On Linux, that translates to:
/home/yourusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2075070/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/KinitoPET/Files

Accessing this directory every time can get annoying, but we can fix it with a symlink.

Step 1 – Remove the Original Folder

Go to:
/home/yourusername/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2075070/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/KinitoPET

Delete the Files folder.

Step 2 – Create a Symlink

This process depends on your Linux distro and file manager.
On SteamOS (which uses Dolphin File Manager):

Right-click inside the KinitoPET folder.
Choose Create New → Link to Directory (or File).
Name it Files.
Point it to your preferred folder (for example, ~/Documents).

Now, whenever KinitoPET tries to write to Files, the data will be redirected to your chosen directory.

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lightwo 3 Sep @ 1:07pm

It looks like it would work, and thanks for saving the time to figure it out, but even though I always prefer knowing exactly what to do, in this game it's against the spirit. The game is built around surprising you in ways that only work if it operates out of the box.

It would probably be a better idea to make a script that takes care of these things in a way that a savvy user would be able to verify to be clean, while not revealing what the game actually does.

While this is only addressing 1) an obvious feature and 2) an ending (major spoiler), these aren't the only things necessary to make the game "just work". A major "Linux conversion" project would obviously be most ideal, but whether anyone steps up to the task, only time will tell.

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