How do i add steam games to my Gnome desktop?

UrbnLgnd , 10 months ago

@Simplesyrup
Gnome by default does not allow this. You need a gnome extension like this https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/ to do so.

CorInABox , 10 months ago

This, or the Tray Icons: Reloaded extension for GNOME, which adds the Steam icon to the tray bar. From there, you can click it and it shows a list of the installed games.

If you are new to Linux, GNOME has quite a different feel from your usual Windows flow. I personally love it and would never swap back.

(Off-topic, but If you would be interested in a gaming-oriented distro, I would recommend Nobara Linux - the official version looks fairly familiar for Windows users and it also comes with a bunch of gaming-related stuff preinstalled like Steam, wine dependencies, mesa drivers for AMD, etc)

TheAnnoyingFruit , 10 months ago

Don’t know if it’s the answer you are looking for but if when you install the game you click add application menu shortcut it will add it to the menu that opens with windows key. I have never personally used desktop shortcuts on gnome since it isn’t included stock.

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

A few of my games show up but not all of them it’s weird so weird

luthis , 10 months ago

Did this get sorted?

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

Nope just learned to cope with the issue like many things

luthis , 10 months ago

I just tested on mine:

Right click game in steam, add shortcut to desktop double-click shortcut, game runs.

I checked the shortcut to see what the command is (right-click, properties):

steam steam://rungameid/648800

Is that what you have? The only thing I can think of is that steam isn’t in your path, ie when you double click the shortcut it tries to run ‘steam’ but then can’t find it.

If you open a terminal and type:

which steam

what’s your output? You should have something like /usr/bin/steam

EccTM , 10 months ago

GNOME doesn’t really care about shortcuts on the actual desktop, but you could put those gamename.desktop shortcuts Steam created into ~/.local/share/applications instead, and then they will appear alongside your Applications in GNOME.

~ represents your home directory, basically an alias for /home/username/ so you wouldn’t have to type that in a terminal all the time. .local/ is a hidden folder (that’s what the dot at the start does) and you might need to check if your file browser is showing hidden files and folders to see it.

To get more in-depth help in the future, you should probably state what Linux distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch…) you are using too, different distros can have different ways of doing things!

solarisfire , 10 months ago

@Simplesyrup Steam client?

solarisfire , 10 months ago

@Simplesyrup Hmmm, it appears Lemmy doesn't pull images from Mastodon, there's meant to be a screenshot there...

jannem , 10 months ago

@solarisfire @Simplesyrup
I see the screenshot from the Mastodon mobile web client.

Edit: of course I do. It's the other way around that doesn't seem to work.

solarisfire , 10 months ago

@jannem @Simplesyrup It doesn't seem to show up in the lemmy thread on the lemmy instance though... Weird behavior...

jannem , 10 months ago

@solarisfire @Simplesyrup
Ah sorry, misunderstood.

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

Yes i do that and it dsoent add it to my system, only a broken desktop icon and that’s it :(

Dr_Willis , 10 months ago

You did right click and select ‘allow launching’ on the greyed out short cut icon?

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

Yes but it doesn’t fully show the icon only steam and it doesn’t show up on the start when I try and type for it

1984 , 10 months ago

I don’t know but you can just hit the windows key and start typing the name of the game. :)

Gnome doesn’t really encourage the use of icons on desktops…it’s an old way of starting programs and not really needed.

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

Dosent even show up even when doing that aswell plz help

1984 , 10 months ago

Can’t help you, all Linux are different so depends on your Linux distribution and what you did to install it. :)

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

I use ubuntu witch is the most common Linux os for use

1984 , 10 months ago

Hopefully someone else can help. I’m on a different Linux. :)

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

Bruh this is downright annoying af

dj3hac , 10 months ago

Then don’t reply

Fisch , 10 months ago

How did you install steam?

Simplesyrup OP , 10 months ago

On the website

Fisch , 10 months ago

You should install it through the terminal or as a flatpak, that might fix the issue. You only download applications from the web on linux if there’s no other way.