Using the add game to desktop shortcut dosen’t work and only adds a broken badge and dosen’t really add it to the system, plz help!! NEW TO LINUX!!!
Don’t know if it’s the answer you are looking for but if when you install the game you click add application menu shortcut it will add it to the menu that opens with windows key. I have never personally used desktop shortcuts on gnome since it isn’t included stock.
I don’t know but you can just hit the windows key and start typing the name of the game. :)
Gnome doesn’t really encourage the use of icons on desktops…it’s an old way of starting programs and not really needed.
Can’t help you, all Linux are different so depends on your Linux distribution and what you did to install it. :)
@Simplesyrup Steam client?
@Simplesyrup Hmmm, it appears Lemmy doesn’t pull images from Mastodon, there’s meant to be a screenshot there…
@solarisfire @Simplesyrup
I see the screenshot from the Mastodon mobile web client.
Edit: of course I do. It’s the other way around that doesn’t seem to work.
@jannem @Simplesyrup It doesn’t seem to show up in the lemmy thread on the lemmy instance though… Weird behavior…
Yes i do that and it dsoent add it to my system, only a broken desktop icon and that’s it :(
You did right click and select ‘allow launching’ on the greyed out short cut icon?
@Simplesyrup
Gnome by default does not allow this. You need a gnome extension like this https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/ to do so.
This, or the Tray Icons: Reloaded extension for GNOME, which adds the Steam icon to the tray bar. From there, you can click it and it shows a list of the installed games.
If you are new to Linux, GNOME has quite a different feel from your usual Windows flow. I personally love it and would never swap back.
(Off-topic, but If you would be interested in a gaming-oriented distro, I would recommend Nobara Linux - the official version looks fairly familiar for Windows users and it also comes with a bunch of gaming-related stuff preinstalled like Steam, wine dependencies, mesa drivers for AMD, etc)
GNOME doesn’t really care about shortcuts on the actual desktop, but you could put those gamename.desktop shortcuts Steam created into ~/.local/share/applications instead, and then they will appear alongside your Applications in GNOME.
~ represents your home directory, basically an alias for /home/username/ so you wouldn’t have to type that in a terminal all the time.
.local/ is a hidden folder (that’s what the dot at the start does) and you might need to check if your file browser is showing hidden files and folders to see it.
To get more in-depth help in the future, you should probably state what Linux distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch…) you are using too, different distros can have different ways of doing things!
