• chronicledmonocle
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    5 days ago

    Unfortunately, SteamVR with Flatpak is busted unless you use something like WiVRn. If you try to use something like the Steam Link app on an Android-based VR headset to do direct SteamVR streaming, it won’t work on the Flatpak because of permissions.

    Source: Been wishing I could use SteamVR on my gaming PC for a while without a third party solution.

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      5 days ago

      Did you try and app like Flatseal for customising Flatpak permissions?

    • Victor
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      5 days ago

      Can you not just allow those permissions?

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        5 days ago

        It’s deeper than that. It tries to run a function with sudi that fails every time, but the prompt for a password never appears.

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          5 days ago

          Ah, I see. So it must need some library installed via Flatpak as well, that provides that prompt, right?

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            Probably. It tries to run a .sh script on first launch as sudo, but fails. Even if you run it manually, it still didn’t seem to fix it. There is a bug report for it somewhere that’s been open for 2 years. Valve officially only supports the package version of Steam for SteamVR, not Flatpak, so it’s unlikely to get fixed.