• 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·
      4 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.