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Runelite through osrs on steam issue (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zidane@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Sup gamers.
Super new to Linux gaming after a brief stint in 2011-2012 with Ubuntu before I shorted my laptops battery by ripping the screen off (woops)

Anywho, I'm trying to run runelite through steam as old school runescape with the launch options: echo "%command%"; /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage

First off, no idea what any of the options are doing and searching online is no help so I can't fix it myself...

But this is my problem... The game (runelite not osrs) opens briefly once, closes, and then opens a new runelite which I'm assuming is making steam no longer think that it's running old school RuneScape? I'm able to play but I want steam to know I'm playing so number go up on steam while number go up in game.

Edit:
opening both the RuneLite.AppImage & RuneLite.jar does the ol opens and closes and reopens itself again... And I have read/write + execute as program enabled... surely I messed something up?

opens closes and opens runelite
echo "%command%"; /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage
"%command%"; /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage
/mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage
/mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage # %command%
/mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage "%command%"

opens runelite and then doesn't reopen?????
/mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.AppImage %command%

opens original launcher
echo java -jar /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar
java -jar /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar
java -jar "/mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar"
-jar /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar
%command% java -jar /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I would try /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage # %command% as the launch option.

To break down your original launch options:

  • echo is a program to output any text that follows it
  • %command% is whatever Steam would have used originally to start the game. If this is not used in the launch options it would be in front of the options.
  • the semicolon ; means "end of command".
  • /home/zidane/Downloads/RuneLite.AppImage is of course the command to launch RuneLite

In my commandline arguments # indicates the start of a comment. Everything after it should be ignored.

I hope this fixes it for you.

[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

added an edit to my original post, still haven't gotten it to work :^/

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put the original command after a # to disable it.

java -jar /mnt/Games_Linux/RuneScape/RuneLite.jar # %command%

[–] Zidane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Ay that opened it but now I just have to figure out why it's double opening

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