AWCC

AWCC for Alienware & Dell G series devices 🚀

AWCC* is an unofficial alternative to Alienware Command Centre of Windows for the Alienware Series Device on Linux, supporting almost all features that the Windows version supports, including custom fan controls, light effects, g-mode, and autoboost.

*This project is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or produced by Dell. It is simply my personal contribution and hobby aimed at improving the Linux experience on Dell laptops.

🎮 Discord community for support and feedback :

[!NOTE] For lights and other light device that comes under dell (including everything like keyboard,mouse,monitors etc) try AlienFX it would have a gui interface in awcc itself

✨ Features

• 🖥️ GUI and CLI support
• ⚡ Lightweight (uses around ~88mb of RAM with GUI open, else 4mb RAM while running in background)
• 🌈 All Light Effects
• 🧑‍💻 Daemon Support (no sudo needed if daemon is running)
• 🎮 GMode and Light Key autobinding just like Windows
• 🔥 Supports All modes that your device has
• 💻 Supports all of Alienware device in including keyboard,mouse,monitors etc
• 🕵️ *No Telemetry and Open Source
• 📈 Custom Fan Curve (Soon)

📸 Screenshots

🛠️ Building And Installation

🗿 For Arch-Based Distros

paru -S awcc-bin

🛠️ Manual Installation

Dependencies :

• acpi_call-dkms (Most important)
• libx11
• libgl or libglvnd

Make Dependencies :

• cmake
• ninja
• meson

🗿 For NixOS

Add flake input in your config:

awcc = {
  url = "github:tr1xem/AWCC";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
}

Then, import awcc.nixosModules.default anywhere in your config and add acpi_call as kernel module.

Example flake part awcc.nix setup:

{ ... }: {
  flake.modules.nixos."system.awcc" = { inputs, config, pkgs, ... }: {
    imports = [ inputs.awcc.nixosModules.default ];
    boot.kernelModules = [ "acpi_call" ];
    boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [ acpi_call ];
  };
}

OR if you are a debianoid

sudo apt-get install acpi-call-dkms git meson ninja-build cmake libx11-dev libgl-dev pkgconf g++-13 libxkbcommon-dev libglfw3 libudev-dev pkexec libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libcursor-dev libxi-dev

git clone https://github.com/tr1xem/AWCC
cd AWCC && mkdir build/
cd build && cmake .. -G Ninja
sudo ninja install

Then enable the awccd.service using :

sudo systemctl enable --now awccd.service

Reload udev rules using

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

Load ACPI module using

sudo modprobe acpi_call

[!TIP] Do echo acpi_call | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/acpi_call.conf to make acpi_call module auto load on startup so u dont have to type modprobe command everytime

Frequently Asked Questions

• Auto enable gmode on game launch?

Install gamemode using your package manager

To autostart the gmode profile on game launch add following changes to: /etc/gamemode.ini

[custom]
start=/usr/bin/awcc g
end=/usr/bin/awcc b
script_timeout=3

and now edit game’s launch command to use gamemode gamemoderun ./game (or gamemoderun %command% if you are using steam) and it would autotoggle gmode on starting a game

Support and Feedback

Need support or want this project to support your device ? Join our Discord community or open a Github Discussion

Device Tested

🗺️ Roadmap

• ♨️ Rewrite Thermal Core of AWCC in C++ with minimal API changes
• 💡 Rewrite LightFX Core of AWCC in C++ with minimal API changes
• 🖥️ CLI Mode
• 📦 install script
• 🖼️ GUI - Using Dear ImGui and some visuals from Windows version
• 🧩 Auto Zone identify using libusb and Alien FX Sdk (New GUI)
• 📊 Fan Curve for AutoBoost (New GUI)
• 🖲️ Improved DMI and Normal Device Detection
• 🧠 Better ACPI Executions with fallback and functions like executeacip(0x2, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
• 🕹️ Support for Legacy USTT modes
• 📝 JSON Config file and parsing
• ⌨️ Grab Unmark keys directly from daemon using evdev
• 👾 Other Zones like head and support for Alienware - Low Priority (https://github.com/tr1xem/alienfx-linux/tree/main/AlienFX-SDK)
• 🐞 Verbose and Debug Mode
• New backend for thermal mode (https://github.com/tr1xem/alienfx-linux/tree/main/AlienFan-SDK)

🙏 Credits

• GasparVardanyan
• humanfx
• randomboi404 (NixOS Support)
• meduk0
• kevin (G-Mode snippet)
• WMI Kernel Driver

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