Here's The First Screenshot Of The Linux Steam Client

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Here's The First Screenshot Of The Linux Steam Client

Less than two weeks ago we reported on the Mac OS X Steam client confirming the existence of a Linux client and then found more Linux references too. We then found the unreleased Steam Linux binaries that were under active development. Some still didn't believe the existence of a Steam client for Linux with Source Engine support, but it's something we have said for nearly two years based upon our sources and then the emergence of these binaries...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODIwNQ

[bugmenot2]

Dunno, that kinda looks photoshoped/GIMP'd ....

[mastertheknife]

Here is the binary patch we used to get it work. Its for the current version of steamui.so and you can it yourself if you think its photoshopped!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DIRKCAH0

[kraftman]

Games are probably the most important to Linux to be able to compete on the desktops. Can't wait for Steam ;>

[d2kx]

Dunno, that kinda looks photoshoped/GIMP'd ....

You can get the patches and help to run it yourself in #phoronix. It's the real deal.

[aliendude5300]

Ok -- so Kano posted this link in IRC to make setting this up ridiculously easy, just paste this into a bash file, save it, and run it in an empty directory! I didn't write this, but Kano said "do what you want, its not my patch anyway ", so here it is...

#!/bin/sh
wget -qO- http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux|awk -F\" '/file/&&/steam_linux/{print $4}'|wget -P package -i- -NB http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/
unzip -o  package/*.zip.\*
chmod +x steam.sh linux32/steam
echo Universe = store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux > ./steam.cfg
./steam.sh
wget -P patch -N http://www.jnumbers.com/mirror/steamui.patch
bspatch linux32/steamui.so linux32/steamui.so patch/steamui.patch
sed 's|\(${DEBUGGER}\)|LD_PRELOAD=`echo linux32/*.so` \1|' steam.sh > run.sh
chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh

This code was originally at http://pastie.org/private/4ryiocqxbea8uq8dgexg. I'm including it in my post in case that pastie page goes down for some reason.

[aliendude5300]

Also, you could just run this script, which does just about everything for you, assuming you have bspatch installed. http://pastebay.com/96489

[aliendude5300]

Also, you could just run this script, which does just about everything for you, assuming you have bspatch installed. http://pastebay.com/96489

Unfortunately, I can't edit my original message, but I fixed setting the executable permissions on the new run.sh file. The new file is at: http://pastebay.com/96505

[V!NCENT]

Dunno, that kinda looks photoshoped/GIMP'd ....

And here's why:
Steam has its own windows management thing going on.

Why? Because of consistency; Steam has an overly mode where these windows can appear in-game as well for changing settings in the Source engine, nut also for bringing up instant messaging, voip and browsing servera and whatnot in third party games.

Ever sinse a not too distant time ago it is compositing with shadows of its own, so it doesn't match the OS's window
anagement graphical effects and behavoir.

[aliendude5300]

Yay! I got it working on another machine... on my main machine, it wouldn't start because I was using a Radeon X1950 GT 256MB card, and the radeon R300 open-source driver. When I tried it on another machine, also running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, except in 32-bit instead of 64-bit like on my other machine. Anyways, here are some screenshots of it working:




I assure you, these aren't fake...