This is a small application that will read the STEAM_GAME window property from any game launched by Steam® and writes the appropriate desktop entry onto the window.
With it, you can pin Steam® games to your task manager as well as get the correct window icon in KDE Plasma 5.
This only works for games that you had create a desktop file (e.g. start menu entry) on installation.
Before:
After:
This project is configured using cmake.
You need to have development packages for XCB, Qt X11 Extras, KService, and KWindowSystem as well as Extra CMake Modules installed to build it, for example libxcb1-dev, libqt5x11extras5-dev, libkf5windowsystem-dev, and libkf5service-dev as well as extra-cmake-modules.
Basically:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Then simply run the application. You can also add it to your autostart.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright 2020 Kai Uwe Broulik
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