Steam In-Game Community & Chat Overlay (Shift+Tab Feature)

Question

I'm trying to run Steam + TF2 through WINE.
The steam Shift+Tab feature works perfectly in Ubuntu out-of-the-box, but doesn't work at all in arch. Has anyone successfully activated this feature; can anyone suggest how I might activate the feature?
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Last edited by nhurtt (2012-03-30 23:45:04)

Answer 1

Yeah, setting the gameoverlayrenderer to native has fixed the problem. Quite obvious I suppose, in retrospect.
IDK how to inline images on these forums, but w/e. Here's the problem I'm experiencing with switching between vts.
http://uppix.net/7/7/d/5cd9f47777f313d3 … a07ce1.jpg
http://uppix.net/e/8/6/cc172d23c6765694 … e736e6.jpg
http://uppix.net/1/1/a/1450395069669fbd … 4f8d5a.jpg
Any ideas how to stop this, or maybe even just fix it without restarting steam everytime I switch vts?
I've actually modeled my start script from one that you posted on the wine forums, Cloudef. it's:
#!/bin/sh
X :2 -ac -terminate & nvidia-settings --load-config-only
sleep 3
DISPLAY=:2
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=/home/nick/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam
export WINEDEBUG=-all
export LANG=en_US.utf8
openbox &disown
nohup wine '/home/nick/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steam.exe' >/dev/null 2&>1
exit 0
The script on the archwiki which supposedly accomplishes launching steam on a separate vt fails miserably on my computer. I've seen other startup scripts which use xinit to launch another X session, but they didn't work well either. Any suggestions / ideas I can use?
Last edited by nhurtt (2012-04-01 21:23:12)