[Bug]: unable to launch programs in Steam Deck gaming mode, but can launch from script pointing to executable

[alpha-tango-kilo]

Describe the bug

Programs installed into a bottle can't be found by program name when in the Steam Deck's gaming mode, per reproduction steps

I spent a fair while digging at this, and this is what I found:

• Bottles launched within gaming mode showed only manually added programs, not auto-detected ones
• Creating a script that called flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles run -b <bottle name> -e <path> and adding it to Steam could launch the game
• Using the above script approach but with -p <program name> only worked with manually added programs

To Reproduce

1. Create (gaming) bottle
2. Install game
3. Add game to Programs if not present
4. Add program to Steam (at this point the program will launch fine from Bottles, or from Steam while still in desktop mode)
5. Switch to gaming mode
6. Launch game
7. (either stays on Steam spinner or gives up and goes back to game info)

Package

Flatpak from Flathub

Distribution

Steam Deck

Troubleshooting Logs

Version: 2022.8.28-brescia-2
Display:
    X.org: true
    X.org (port): :99.0
    Wayland: false
Graphics:
    vendors:
        amd:
            vendor: amd
            envs:
                DRI_PRIME: '1'
            icd: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/GL/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json
    prime:
        integrated: null
        discrete: null
Kernel:
    Type: Linux
    Version: 5.13.0-valve21.1-1-neptune-02211-gc54cda5a36f3
Distro:
    Name: GNOME
    Version: '"42 (Flatpak runtime)"'
Disk:
    Total: 7778668544
    Free: 7778525184
RAM:
    MemTotal: 14.5GiB
    MemAvailable: 11.4GiB
Bottles_envs: null

Display Protocol

X11, Wayland

Display Backend used by Bottles

No response

Additional context

Flatseal non-default setttings:

[mirkobrombin]

Some useful logs? I don't have a steam deck to test (and no time for setting up a vm), idk how steam is launched but I assume you can launch it trough your terminal to catch some logs.

[alpha-tango-kilo]

See logs in below message. I'm afraid they're not the most informative. The only way I can get logs when launching games in gaming mode is by using a script I write myself, which is added as a non-Steam game. In this case, it's flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles run -b <bottle name> -p <program name> &>$HOME/bottles.log. The script correctly launches the game if run from a terminal in desktop mode, which eliminates the possibility of user error.

The "ERROR: ld.so" stuff comes from Steam chucking around a whole load of environment variables when you launch a game through it. You also get these logs when successfully launching a game, so I think they're just noise.

[alpha-tango-kilo]

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
�[80m21:49:19 �[1m(INFO)�[0m �[36mForcing offline mode�[0m �[0m
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Program Cult Of The Lamb not found

[codingismy11to7]

I'm getting the exact same thing. At one point I added an export LD_PRELOAD= line to my script before launching, in which case I only ended up with the two lines (Forcing offline mode & Program not found).

Wondering if this is some kind of steam+flatpak issue, and not an issue with bottles (but if you install Chrome it uses flatpak and launches fine, so maybe that's not the case)

[mysteriousHerb]

Can confirm, the game installed in bottles can run in bottles. After using add to steam button the game won't run either in game mode or desktop mode in steam. It even won't run with a desktop shortcut generated by bottles.

[alpha-tango-kilo]

Can confirm, the game installed in bottles can run in bottles. After using add to steam button the game won't run either in game mode or desktop mode in steam. It even won't run with a desktop shortcut generated by bottles.

@herbzhao that's a different issue to this one then. I can run games from Bottles fine in desktop mode, and through Steam in desktop mode. You may want to grab some logs and file a separate issue

[mysteriousHerb]

In the meantime, i have found this as a solution, as you stated, you can create a .sh file. and add this as a non-steam game. also works.

#!/bin/bash
flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles run -b {bottle_name} -p "{programme name}"

[mysteriousHerb]

Boilr has successfully implemented the add to steam, for anyone who is still having this problem.

[alpha-tango-kilo]

Can confirm Boilr works fine on programs installed in a bottle that have been manually added manually to the programs list. This appears to be because Boilr uses the flatpak run command to launch programs too (seen here), as opposed to the xdg-open command that Bottles adds to Steam