• BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    I’ve tried KDE on both Debian and Fedora. Neither have allowed me to do what I want to do: add a secondary storage device to my steam library. Whenever I try to, it just pops up a separate Dolphin window that doesn’t affect steam once a folder is selected (almost like it’s a separate process and not a child process of Steam).

    The flatpak works, but 1. Ew; 2. It runs steam on Xwayland; 3. Being a debian nerd, I want to be as much of a <default package manager> purist as possible to make life easier down the road

    I’ll switch once this is fixed, but I just gotta stick with Gnome until it is

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      6·
      5 days ago

      add a secondary storage device to my steam library.

      You mean have more than one steam library? That’s a steam setting. Nothing to do with KDE. Gnome, Debian or Fedora.

      The flatpak works,

      Oh. There’s your issue. Don’t run steam as a flatpak, there might be sandboxing issues.

      EDIT: MF did you read the page you downloaded stuff from:

      Note: To add a game library on another drive, first you need to grant the app access to it:

      flatpak override --user --filesystem=/path/to/your/Steam/Library com.valvesoftware.Steam

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        Buddy… Flatpak works, I know that. I do not want to use flatpak. It’s that Steam from the distro’s official repository, whether it’s on Debian or Fedora, doesn’t allow me to set up a library specifically on a different storage device than the OS’ and specifically only on KDE.

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 days ago

          Well, I’m using KDE and I set up a library eight months ago and… yes there’s a bug. Just checked. Not entirely the same but related to this:

          https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9797

          There’s an official workaround mentioned there.

          I guess KDE updated their portal protocol version some time in between and steam got doubly confused. Probably not a KDE bug, in particular because this kind of stuff is happening for many, many portal implementations.

          And it’s not a dolphin window (with me) btw it’s a qt filepicker. Says “portal” at the end in the title, kde logo to the left.

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 days ago

      I have like five libraries, I went ahead and just tried to add another one to see if it was a regression and unfortunately I can’t reproduce. Then again I’ve always been a KDE Arch user I don’t know if that has anything to do with it maybe I just missed this bug

      • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I have the issue with debian also witj KDE, but I havent tried with Gnome, i did some searching and it seems to be a common issue among debian based distros

        • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 days ago

          I also had the issue on a fresh Fedora install, it’s not just a Debian thing. I figured it was just the usual “debian packages are outdated, it’s breaking things again” but unfortunately it appears to be something to do with KDE and non-Arch