Running Steam with Wine

PrivatePanic · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject:

Yeah! Noiz, you're the man ;D

It works for me, too!

One small problem, though:

How can I access the Console (The ^ key doesn't work) ?

(edit) Oh and one other thing: The Steam window is always-on-top and on all Desktops if not minimized. Can this be changed anyhow?
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Malek · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject:

re: Console Button

I thought it was the ~ button, not ^
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blue.sca · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 5:33 pm Post subject:

having same touble, i just bound it to "p" in the config.

still no solution for the focus thing, played around with dga and manages windows in wine, but that srewed more things up then helped

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telloc · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Montana. USA

I used Noiz's excelent guide to install CVS wine. The menus all work fine, and I can start DoD! But when I try to connect to a server, it fails during "Verifing Game Resources"

Anyone have a suggestion? I don't get any error messages, it just goes to never-never land...

muffy · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 28 Location: :noitacoL

AFAIK Steam already _IS_ pay to play, but not for single users. Gaming / net cafes and lan events have to pay.

Noiz · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 10

Sorry it took so long for me to answer..

I don't have any problem getting in my console and after seeing blue.sca saying it works when binding to the p key, maybe you are using a international keyboard layout in xfree that gives problems when pushing the ~ key?

About the always on top: You can use the wine desktop to have all those windows in just one window. You can then simply minimize it to see your real desktop.

telloc: Does it hang or just quits to the desktop? You can try Step 6 from overflowed's guide if you have not done so already.

My CVS method is not really needed any more for steam, there is a ebuild for the 20031118 release in portage.
Simply emerge wine as following as it has not been marked stable yet:

emerge /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine/wine-20031118.ebuild

LinuxRocks · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 397 Location: New Mexico

hey guys,
I am still having a bit of a snag. I have followed all the instruction on the web sites and some tips on this forum as well, yet, when I launch steam.exe, and log in, it still hangs when trying to download content to play a game, like cstrike.

Any ideas. I have the CVS from 11/27/03 and no go.

Thanks a million

Joe

TheWitePony · Apprentice Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 211

I can't get keyboard focus on the Steam login window. I tried the little right-click paste trick and that didn't work. Any Ideas?