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How to change launch option on the steam app? (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 1 year ago by penquin@lemmy.kde.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi all, I have a 4k monitor and the steam app is very tiny. I have found out that I can fix it by running the app in the terminal with steam -forcedesktopscaling 2, but it is getting tiring launching it through the terminal. Is there any way I can change something in the app itself and make it launch with that command? KDE Plasma on endeavour OS is what I'm running Tried going into the .desktop file to add the command somewhere in the "exec", but failed. Could someone please help? Thank you

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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I just installed it from the repos. As for the exec command, it is a bit confusing because there are more than just one. There is an exec command under every catagory. For example, there is a section called [Desktop Action BigPicture] that has an exec line Exec=steam steam://open/bigpicture. There are more than one section, and they all have an exec line. I tried the line you provided at the very end of the steam.desktop and steam-native.desktop and still got nothing. So not sure honestly

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The other sections are different actions that appear in the context menu of the steam desktop icon, so that you can launch steam straight into big picture for example. If you just launch steam, just the [Desktop Entry] section will execute.

While in my experience the answer you replied to works, to get the same behavior as what you got in the terminal, you should edit the exec line to something like steam --forcedesktopscaling=2 %u.

If you use the separate actions, you should edit it there as well, but those won't have any effect on just launching steam.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switched to this Exec=steam -forcedesktopscaling 2 %U and it still didn't work. Changed a couple of things there and still nothing. Damn, this is so annoying. Guess I will need to just do it through the terminal and call it a day

[–] Dr_Willis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just use in my Exec=

Exec=GDK_SCALE=2 steam

but that may differ in looks from the options you are using

I have a steam-big-ui.desktop that gives me the option to run in big mode, or I run normal steam for small mode.