Sup gamers.
Super new to Linux gaming after a brief stint in 2011-2012 with Ubuntu before I shorted my laptops battery by ripping the screen off (woops)

Anywho, I’m trying to run runelite through steam as old school runescape with the launch options: echo “%command%”; /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage

First off, no idea what any of the options are doing and searching online is no help so I can’t fix it myself…

But this is my problem… The game (runelite not osrs) opens briefly once, closes, and then opens a new runelite which I’m assuming is making steam no longer think that it’s running old school RuneScape? I’m able to play but I want steam to know I’m playing so number go up on steam while number go up in game.

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I would try /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage # %command% as the launch option.

    To break down your original launch options:

    • echo is a program to output any text that follows it
    • %command% is whatever Steam would have used originally to start the game. If this is not used in the launch options it would be in front of the options.
    • the semicolon ; means “end of command”.
    • /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage is of course the command to launch RuneLite

    In my commandline arguments # indicates the start of a comment. Everything after it should be ignored.

    I hope this fixes it for you.

    • Zidane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Tried a few different ways and got nowhere ;( without the echo it still does the open and close and reopen thing. Did I fuck up my steam install or something?? I did have issues with marvel rivals yesterday with it not wanting to open… Hmmm