I just built a new PC and decided to use Linux. Initially when I built it my ssd was going to take a long time to come in, weeks after the rest of the parts. So I installed fedora onto an external SSD that I had and everything was great.
Thursday my new internal SSD came in and so I installed fedora onto it and migrated the files I wanted to keep to my new one. After installing steam I’m getting errors when it launches.
There are several versions, proton hot fix, steam, runtime 1.0 scout, runtime 2.0 soldier, runtime 3.0 sniper.
No matter which one I launch this time around I get “an error occurred while launching this game: invalid game configuration”
Usually I launch it, the icon pops up and goes away several times, I end the process, launch it again and it gives me the aforementioned error.
It didn’t do that till I installed the new SSD.
First do the games launch normally without error? If you have errors you might need to do the chown thing if you users are mixed up.
if everything is working fine you can use locate to find where you OS keeps steams .desktop files:
locate 'steam.desktop'
on my machine they are :
/usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
so since both the desktop files are in a root directory we have to change it with root privilege.
sudo nano /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
will open the file in nano. Look for an entry that looks like Exec=/usr/bin/steam-runtime %U and change that to Exec=/usr/bin/steam. To save it [Crtl] + o and then [Ctrl] + m to save, then [Ctrl] + x should exit nano. You might want to back up those files before you edit them so you have something to go back to if something goes wrong.
sudo cp /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop.bak
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop.bak
here is a cheat sheet for nano
Lets first make sure that your USERS aren’t messing with steam.
I also should mention that in the notification thing at the top I’m seeing
“We’re sorry, it looks like “steamwebhelper” crashed. Please contact developer if you want to report the issue.”
