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Heroic-Games-Launcher
Option to add "standalone" shortcuts
Problem description
When I launch a Heroic game from Steam while Heroic is already running, the game is launched as a child process of Heroic and not Steam. This means that the Steam won't detect the game as still running and Steam Overlay will not work.
This is especially problematic on Steam Deck because if the game freezes or somesuch, there is no standard way of exiting the game without restarting the Deck.
Feature description
Add an option to create "standalone" launchers in Steam and the desktop environment which do not invoke Heroic, but simply execute the command Heroic would execute.
Alternatives
Allow running separate instances of Heroic, so that they remain child processes of Steam even if Heroic is already running.
Additional information
Obvious caveat: The shortcuts will not automatically reflect changes made to the configuration inside Heroic. Possible solution: Optionally update shortcuts whenever changes are made to config.
you can try with https://github.com/redromnon/HeroicBashLauncher
the problem of not having heroic in the middle is that some features won't work: play tracking, saves sync, anything that heroic handles before/after a game
This is especially problematic on Steam Deck because if the game freezes or somesuch, there is no standard way of exiting the game without restarting the Deck. this happens in Desktop mode, right? what I did in that case was to change the controller layout to support an Alt+tab combination, that way you can tab out of the frozen game and kill it
This is especially problematic on Steam Deck because if the game freezes or somesuch, there is no standard way of exiting the game without restarting the Deck.this happens in Desktop mode, right? what I did in that case was to change the controller layout to support anAlt+tabcombination, that way you can tab out of the frozen game and kill it
You mean change it in the Steam Desktop Layout?
