💡 [REQUEST] - Support for Flatpak steam (on Fedora Silverblue)

[samtate]

Summary

Hello, I'm using Fedora Silverblue and Flatpak steam from the Flathub and unfortunately SAM cannot see it running. Is support for this variant possible?

Many thanks

Basic Example

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Drawbacks

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Unresolved questions

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[PaulCombal]

Hi hello, I would have really loved to make Samrewritten work with flatpak, unfortunately after many attempts, I could not manage to get it working. If you know someone who knows how to work with Flatpak and its inner workings, feel free to introduce this person to this project. Otherwise, does it work if you install Steam differently on Fedora? Have you tried non-Flatpak installs of Steam? Thanks for the feedback A sábado, 5/07/2025, 07:36, samtate ***@***.***> escreveu:

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[sapphic-wallflower]

The non-Flatpak version of Steam works on Fedora, Silverblue, Nobara, and Bazzite. You may need to switch to a non-Flatpak version if you want it to work.

[termdisc]

Looking at

SamRewritten/src/utils/app_paths.rs

Line 127 in 2334ae9

let install_dirs = [

, it looks like SAM looks to ~/.steam/ to find the relevant Steam user folders.

This might be addressed either by creating the ~/.steam/ folder with the necessary symlinks copied from the flatpak's folders or adjusting SAM to look into the flatpak's folders, i.e., ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam

[PaulCombal]

@termdisc have you tried yourself and does it work?

[g89vito]

Looking at

SamRewritten/src/utils/app_paths.rs

Line 127 in 2334ae9
let install_dirs = [
, it looks like SAM looks to ~/.steam/ to find the relevant Steam user folders.

This might be addressed either by creating the ~/.steam/ folder with the necessary symlinks copied from the flatpak's folders or adjusting SAM to look into the flatpak's folders, i.e., ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam

Hi, this works fine (ArchLinux up-to-date)

download samrewritten-gtk.AppImage in ~/Download

Open a terminal:

run0 pacman -Syyu gtk4
chmod +x ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage
mkdir -p  ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage.home
ln -sf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/ ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage.home

start Steam and login
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

open new tab in terminal

~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage

manage your game achievement

[KrisZane]

run0 pacman -Syyu gtk4
chmod +x ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage
mkdir -p  ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage.home
ln -sf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/ ~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage.home

start Steam and login flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

open new tab in terminal

~/Download/samrewritten-gtk.AppImage

manage your game achievement

I just gave this a go and my pipes seem to be breaking...

Setting $HOME to samrewritten-adw.AppImage.home
CCrossProcessPipe::BWrite wrote too few bytes: 32 (Broken pipe).  Continuing.
src/common/pipes.cpp (882) : fatal stalled cross-thread pipe (pipe is disconnected).
src/common/pipes.cpp (882) : fatal stalled cross-thread pipe (pipe is disconnected).
src/common/pipes.cpp (882) : Fatal assert; application exiting
src/common/pipes.cpp (882) : Fatal assert; application exiting
11/21 22:55:01 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
11/21 22:55:01 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(samrewritten)/version(1.0)/tid(16695)
11/21 22:55:01 ERROR: execv failed when trying to send minidump
11/21 22:55:01 ERROR: Could not run steamerrorreporter binary. Uploading minidump in-process
11/21 22:55:01 Uploading dump (in-process) [url 'https://crash.steampowered.com/submit', proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20251121225501_3.dmp
11/21 22:55:02 success = yes
11/21 22:55:02 response:  Discarded=1
_ExitOnFatalAssert

I have tried with both samrewritten-adw.AppImage.home linked to .steam and samrewritten-adw.AppImage.home/.steam, getting the same error.

Will try gtk just for shits and giggles.

Edit:
Still console diarrhea.

[g89vito]

I have two home PCs, notebook and desktop, different generations of hardware; on both archlinux + kde.

notebook: amd ryzen 8845hs + nvidia rtx 4060 it works, some icons are missing but I think it's due to the recent changes in glycin

desktop: amd fx 6300 + radeon r9 280x, same error, coredump doesn't show anything

[g89vito]

hi, new release: gtk/adw coredump at start in all my setup. I think it's due to the creation of ../.cache/samrewritten/apps.xml
when restart gtk/adw.appimage now works, i can view all games and achievements, but coredumped when lock or unlock achievements

cli mode: works fine in all my pc, i tested view, lock and unlock

chmod +x ~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage
mkdir -p ~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage.home
ln -sf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam ~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage.home

now open steam flatpak and a terminal app:

~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage list-apps
~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage list-achievements APP_ID
~/Download/samrewritten-cli.AppImage unlock APP_ID achievements_id