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How to change launch option on the steam app? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use openSUSE and Plasma. I can just right click the start menu thing, and click "Edit Applications". Fro m there, I find Steam (Games -> Steam). And you can edit the command in the "Program" box.

I did something similar to get Steam to run in my GPU, since it was killing my CPU performance by running on the integrated GPU. It worked fine for me!

Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, so there is this line in there /usr/bin/steam-native, what do I append to it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You got it working by appending -forcedesktopscaling 2, right? try appending that so it is /usr/bin/steam-native -forcedesktopscaling 2.

I would bet that your steam command is a link pointing to /usr/bin/steam-native. You could find out with which steam | xargs ls -al

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It fails to launch when I appended that line. It's ok, I will just use the terminal. I'm getting sick of it. Thank you for your help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Launch options need to be set in their own "Arguments" line, it should work then. Like this:

And if you also want to use the "GDK_SCALE=2" environment variable, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, this would need to be set in the "Environment Variables" line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't work. I just gave up on it. Lol