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.
I have experience with Runelite in a third party Jagex launcher project I worked on recently. I have learned that Runelite has a small launcher program that forks and launches another Java process that is running an embedded jar file. The problem is, steam only sees the first “launcher” and not the forked Java process. So once the you launch Runelite steam thinks you closed the game.
I would recommend finding the Runelite.jar file and launching that directly with Java ie. “java -jar Runelite.jar”.
Edit: I just checked, you can download the jar from the Runelite website (it’s at the bottom of the list)