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Ludovico de Nittis authored
This stub steam executable tries to directly pass the given commands, e.g. "steam://nav/downloads ", to the running Steam client, if any. This helps games that tries to run "steam ${command}" because when we are in a LD_LIBRARY_PATH runtime, "steam" might not be pointing to the same version that is currently running. Or if we are in a container, there is no "steam" executable in the PATH at all. Signed-off-by:
Ludovico de Nittis <ludovico.denittis@collabora.com>
Ludovico de Nittis authoredThis stub steam executable tries to directly pass the given commands, e.g. "steam://nav/downloads ", to the running Steam client, if any. This helps games that tries to run "steam ${command}" because when we are in a LD_LIBRARY_PATH runtime, "steam" might not be pointing to the same version that is currently running. Or if we are in a container, there is no "steam" executable in the PATH at all. Signed-off-by:
Ludovico de Nittis <ludovico.denittis@collabora.com>
title: steam-runtime-steam-remote
section: 1
NAME
steam-runtime-steam-remote - stub Steam executable
SYNOPSIS
steam-runtime-steam-remote [ARGUMENT]...
DESCRIPTION
steam-runtime-steam-remote passes its command-line arguments to the Steam client that is currently running, if any.
The command-line arguments will typically be a single
steam: URL
such as steam://advertise/70
, but can include other
Steam command-line options
such as -foreground
.
A typical use for steam-runtime-steam-remote is to add a symbolic
link named steam to a directory in the PATH, so that when a
game runs a command like steam -foreground
, it will be converted into
an inter-process communication to the Steam client that is already running.
OUTPUT
If the commands are correctly passed, the output will be empty.
On error, a human-readable message is shown on standard error.
EXIT STATUS
- 0
- steam-runtime-steam-remote ran successfully
- Other Nonzero
- An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Bring Steam's graphical user interface to the foreground:
steam-runtime-steam-remote -foreground
Attempt to install Half-Life:
steam-runtime-steam-remote steam://install/70