ChimeraOS/gamescope-session-steam

Steam goes back to Stable branch

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italoghost commented

Hi! I do not know if the problem is with this package or with gamescope-session itself, but on my Arch machine with the packages from the AUR, everytime that I change to the Beta branch it resets to the Stable one.

It even happens when I set the Beta through my GNOME session.

Is this the default behavior? Is there a way of setting it to the Beta branch on both modes (gamescope session and normal session - GNOME, in my case) and remain on this branch?

alkazar commented

This is because on the desktop, Steam is switching you to the desktop version of Steam and the gamescope session uses the Steam Deck version of Steam. When you switch between the two sessions, Steam resets itself to the default branch.

You can work around this by using the Steam Deck version of Steam on the desktop, like so:

  1. Copy /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
  2. Open ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop in a text editor
  3. Change the Exec line by adding the -steamdeck option to the end of the line
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italoghost commented

@alkazar Thank you! It worked!