Suggestion: Show a console window or something

[FolkSong]

It's very hard to tell what's happening when using the GUI. After selecting a command (such as installing a library) the whole application disappears. Then there are pop up warning messages every few seconds. You often can't tell when it's finished, or if it succeeded or failed.

[Matoking]

Winetricks defaults to using Terminal=false by default, so I wouldn't change that default.

However, this could be achieved by creating a different desktop entry with Terminal=true set and calling it "Protontricks (with debug output)" or something similar in the application list.

[Wapp92]

For the flatpak version on steam deck, how exacty can i do that ? Because of the warning popup that can t be close, i didnt know if anything was install properly and hard reset the steam to get rid of the warning popup. So a konsole would be helpful.

[Matoking]

Just to confirm, are you launching Protontricks through the Steam Deck interface or the desktop environment?

When the Steam Deck interface is active, the system uses the Gamescope compositor, which to my knowledge is designed around only one application being active at a time. Protontricks is unusual in this aspect, that there isn't one application window that stays on throughout the entire Protontricks session. This might be tricky to solve if the compositor does not allow multiple windows to be visible at the same time, though I'll have to check this first.