Launch a game without having to run the UI

[hhirsch]

In PlayOnLinux I can create desktop shortcuts for my games and I can also launch games through the command line interface without having to start the UI.
This is great if I want to use Big Picture mode in steam since PlayOnLinux and GameHub are no good replacement for BPM. It is also a must if I want to use the steam controller as intented.

[tkashkin]

Now it's possible to run games with --run option.

You can find options in game properties dialog.

[hhirsch]

@tkashkin Thank you. This was quick!

[tkashkin]

I'll try to implement adding shortcuts to the Steam library later if I will find a library to work with binary vdf files.

[hhirsch]

@tkashkin That'll be amazing! Keep me posted!

[tkashkin]

@hhirsch I haven't found an existing vala library, so I had to implement it. Fortunately shortcuts.vdf format is simple enough.

It seems to work fine, but it may be buggy, your existing Steam library shortcuts can disappear, etc. Backup your existing ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<steamid3>/config/shortcuts.vdf just in case.

[dreamcat4]

hi there, was messing about today with this feature. To see if it was useful. And ended up clicking on "add to steam button" for a game which was already in my steam library.

Upon going back to steam however the steam browser is now blank. And none of the content frame for the library, or the store etc shows up. Its just blank now. When clicking on store I can see a progress icon rotating. But it does not load. Neither do the startup hints

So it appears the browser has broken for some reason. [edit] oh nevermind... maybe this happened because there was a recent steam update. which occured when steam got opened by this action. and have now found the problem over there ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8072

When i look at the file shortcuts.vdf it appears to be the same a before. From a previous backup. Same md5sum. So was there something else here that occured?

Anyhow shouldn't the import to steam button not work for an existing steam game? Perhaps it should not do anything. Unless the game is not actually a steam game