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Steam Linux client is now a 64bit application (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Unfortunately, SteamVR with Flatpak is busted unless you use something like WiVRn. If you try to use something like the Steam Link app on an Android-based VR headset to do direct SteamVR streaming, it won't work on the Flatpak because of permissions.

Source: Been wishing I could use SteamVR on my gaming PC for a while without a third party solution.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Did you try and app like Flatseal for customising Flatpak permissions?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah that fixes some things, but there is a sudo command it tries to run that has some sort of pathing issue in the Flatpak version.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Can you not just allow those permissions?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    It's deeper than that. It tries to run a function with sudi that fails every time, but the prompt for a password never appears.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Ah, I see. So it must need some library installed via Flatpak as well, that provides that prompt, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Probably. It tries to run a .sh script on first launch as sudo, but fails. Even if you run it manually, it still didn't seem to fix it. There is a bug report for it somewhere that's been open for 2 years. Valve officially only supports the package version of Steam for SteamVR, not Flatpak, so it's unlikely to get fixed.

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