DearValentina Posted Sunday at 12:12 PM Report Posted Sunday at 12:12 PM Howdy, I have this weird issue when starting the game. To clarify, I installed the game via tarball download and running the install.sh script. I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition, if that matters. The install script added the game to my applications menu and moved the files to the appropriate folder. Launching the Menu entry for Vintage Story 1.21.6 (/home/valentina/.local/share/vintagestory/Vintagestory) does nothing. Double clicking the run.sh script in the installation folder (/home/valentina/.local/share/vintagestory) does nothing. Opening the /home/valentina/.local/share/vintagestory folder via terminal, and then running run.sh successfully launches the game. It works, but it's annoying, and it worked on my previous installation on the regular Mint. Any ideas what I did wrong or how to fix it?
hstone32 Posted Sunday at 03:06 PM Report Posted Sunday at 03:06 PM Well I'm not as well versed on DE and gui stuff as I am with shell operations, but I'll take a crack at it. i'm pretty sure that whenever you install a new app on most linux distributions, the last step of the installation is to create a sym link in the usr/bin directory which points to the apps binary. Additionally, apps meant to be launched by the user will also contain a .desktop file which when registered by your DE, will add a new entry to a database somewhere with the location of the app's sim link as well as the desktop thumbnail. my guess as to what your problem is, is that the sim link in your usr/bin directory might for some reason no longer point to the binary. You could try deleting it, and see if re-installing makes a fresh one. Another thing you might try is manually creating a new .desktop file and trying to register it. but yeah, just kind of airballing here. I really don't know a whole lot about gui stuff.
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