Package Details: xbmc-addon-steam-launcher 20140127-4

Package Base: xbmc-addon-steam-launcher
Description: XBMC addon to launch Steam from within XBMC.
Upstream URL: http://xbmc.org/
Category: games
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: thermionix
Maintainer: thermionix
Last Packager: None
Votes: 2
First Submitted: 2013-11-27 08:01
Last Updated: 2014-01-27 00:03

Dependencies (4)

Required by (0)

Sources

  • addon.xml
  • default.py
  • fanart.jpg
  • icon.png
  • steam-launcher.sudoers
  • steam-switcher.service

Latest Comments

Comment by n17ikh

2015-01-13 01:32

Is there going to be a Kodi version of this package? I would say there doesn't need to be one, but the updated Pacman (4.2) no longer has directory symlink support, and so the /usr/share/xbmc link that would get used by this package doesn't work right.

Comment by thermionix

2014-01-27 00:22

Hi Vash, thanks for the comments, have fixed the sudoers.d warning and xorg-xinit depends.

When I manually launch steam -bigpicture in a new profile I can't get through the 'steam os' setup without having NetworkManager installed, I believe steam depends on it.
You can of course get around this by first launching steam in 'desktop mode'

Comment by Vash63

2014-01-26 22:51

Also, xorg-xinit is required but not listed.

In addition, I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the actual Steam package, but you cannot get through the initial setup without using NetworkManager. It will not find a network and refuse to let you log in. This doesn't effect the Steam package when launched normally in BigPicture mode or desktop mode.

Comment by Vash63

2014-01-26 21:52

Just a note, the sudoers dir should be 750 but the package is being built with 755. Should probably add a mkdir -dm750 before the install/copy to avoid warning on install.

Comment by thermionix

2014-01-05 23:27

I've updated steam-standalone to include the sleep (which was also the hack I had locally to make it work) was hoping to discover a better solution - guess I'll wait till I do a rewrite when dbus+systemd --user are working

As for the CPU consumption I'm also getting this, I might have to try running it in a session manager

Comment by mmf88

2013-12-27 18:26

And there's another problem, that i forgot to mention.
I had to put in steam-standalone.service file the following line:
ExecStartPre = /usr/bin/sleep 1
to let X session open for XBMC stop, before a new X session for Steam start.

Comment by mmf88

2013-12-27 17:41

Hi,

Your addon is great, but there's a problem.
When launching a game, steam-standalone keeps in background eating a bunch of CPU (40~50%), and game FPS is reduced a lot.
There is no way to put steam at sleep when is in game, or something like that?
(Sorry about my english)

Thanks.