Adding third party games

[Lane]

I got a game working under Wine, and I would like to run it via Steam for Linux native. I currently run the game from an alias I made "wine /home/username/.wine/drive_c/path/to/game.exe". I tried making a bash script and adding it, but it didn't work. Is there a proper way to do this besides adding /bin/wine to Steam directly and editing in the parameters?

[phillippi2]

Unfortunately, I don't know. All I know is that linux steam does not recognise .exe files.

[thetargos]

If you create a bin directory under your $HOME, and place there a bash script to run your game, Steam recognizes it as a program and will accept it, that's how I run StarCraft I within Steam.

Edit: you could alternatively create a .destkop file to your bash script under ~/bin, and it iwll get picked up by Steam just the same.

[Lane]

Oprindeligt skrevet af thetargos:

If you create a bin directory under your $HOME, and place there a bash script to run your game, Steam recognizes it as a program and will accept it, that's how I run StarCraft I within Steam.

Edit: you could alternatively create a .destkop file to your bash script under ~/bin, and it iwll get picked up by Steam just the same.

I did figure it out. I don't think Steam runs any programs with extentions. Becuase I made a simple hello world program in C and tried to add it as a.out, and it didn't work. However the shell script I made earler that was named with a .sh extension now works when I removed the extension.

But that bin dir in ~/ is a good idea to keep things organized. Maybe I'll call it games instead or something because I might want ~/bin to be a dir for different versions of wine, patched and unpatched.

[thetargos]

I have a ~/bin/games/ directory ;-)

[Ashley]

All I know is I can only get it to work by adding another program, and tweaking that program's path so it's /path/to/bash/script.

Sucks, Steam's still buggy even though it's been out for a year.