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Title: Gamemode scripts not working with steam

zany130 8 Sep 2021

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Linux Distribution: Garuda Linux
Desktop Environment: KDE
Graphics Card: GTX 1080
GPU Driver Version: 470.63.01

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just like I reported here https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/gamemode-not-working-with-steam/11683 Scripts I wrote to change the primary display on gamemode start and exit are not working when gamemode is run through steam parameters. but it does work when I run gamemode with the test config option in the terminal

Note any particular steps to reproduce it below here
start a game in steam with gamemode added to the launch parameters like this
gamemoderun %command%

gamemode starts but fails to run the script

here are the errors I seem to be getting which seems to be related to this https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/issues/45

https://hastebin.com/vaqonoyepo.sql

Last edited by zany130 on 8 Sep 2021 at 6:32 pm UTC

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whizse 11 Sep 2021

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It's a bit hard to to follow the different bug reports. But as far as I can surmise depending on how/when the distro starts the gamemode service it will or will not have access to the DISPLAY variable?

Are you running a lot of different sessions? Otherwise DISPLAY will not really change and you can hardcode it in your scripts.

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zany130 12 Sep 2021

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Was able to solve it by messing around with Nvidia x settings. Apparently something got messed up (which explains more why the overclock part of game mode wasn't but not my scripts)

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zany130 17 Sep 2021

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game mode seems to have broke again and I can't figure out why the overclock doesn't seem to be working anymore either https://gist.github.com/zany130/06385652a9dc70348beb321c8c3b8a68

Last edited by zany130 on 17 Sep 2021 at 10:29 pm UTC

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