The assets folder itself must be copied to the same folder where the binary lives

[hdShang]

The assets folder itself must be copied to the same folder where the binary lives. What does this mean? Where should i copy asset folder to?

[SirGamsay]

After you compile the application you will have a linux-wallpaperengine file (binary) in a folder. You can copy the asset folder from steam into the same folder.

For example:

My Wallpaperengine is in /home/meiko/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/wallpaper_engine

In this Folder there is a Folder called assets

As can be seen

$ ls /home/meiko/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/wallpaper_engine
assets             config.json    locale      ui
bin                distribution   plugins     version.json
ChromaAppInfo.xml  installer.exe  projects    wallpaper32.exe
config_backups     launcher.exe   thirdparty  wallpaper64.exe

And I compiled the linux-wallpaperengine software following the instructions, so my binary is in /home/meiko/repos/linux-wallpaperengine/build/build In my Case it looks like:

$ ls /home/meiko/repos/linux-wallpaperengine/build/build/
assets                  chrome-sandbox  libcef.so     libvk_swiftshader.so   resources.pak            vk_swiftshader_icd.json
chrome_100_percent.pak  debug.log       libEGL.so     linux-wallpaperengine  snapshot_blob.bin
chrome_200_percent.pak  icudtl.dat      libGLESv2.so  locales                v8_context_snapshot.bin

As you can see there is a Folder called assets again (this is just here, because I already copied it.

In my Case I copied the folder using

cp -r /home/meiko/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/wallpaper_engine/assets /home/meiko/repos/linux-wallpaperengine/build/build/assets