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
  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Tried a few different ways and got nowhere ;( without the echo it still does the open and close and reopen thing. Did I fuck up my steam install or something?? I did have issues with marvel rivals yesterday with it not wanting to open… Hmmm

      • backwardsbae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I tried using the above command and had the same issue until I went to runelite.appimage > right click > properties > permissions > check “allow executing file as program”

        Though I still can’t sign in since I have a jagex account. 🤷‍♀️ Got it to launch though!

        • Zidane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I got it to launch but it’s doing the open and closing and opening which is confusing steam :^( added an edit with a bunch of launch commands I’ve tried

    • Zidane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

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

      • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Put the original command after a # to disable it.

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

        • Zidane@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

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