j0hnnyclaymore / horizon-client-steam-deck

a script to install the horizon client on the steam deck

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Maybe distrobox is a better solution? #3

Open fyksen opened 8 months ago

fyksen commented 8 months ago

Distrobox doesn't break on updates. Maybe this is a better solution?

exports to make it possible to run GUI apps from distrobox

cat <> ~/.distrobox.rc xhost +si:localuser:\$USER export PIPEWIRE_RUNTIME_DIR=/dev/null export PATH=\$PATH:\$HOME/.local/bin EOF

Create distrobox Arch container

distrobox create arch --image quay.io/toolbx/arch-toolbox:latest -Y distrobox enter arch

Install yay

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si --noconfirm yay -Y --gendb

Install VMware-view dependencies, and vm-ware view from AUR using yay

sudo pacman -S libpulse libxkbfile --noconfirm yay -S vmware-horizon-client --noconfirm

Create desktop shortcut for VMware-view

distrobox-export --app vmware-view

Exit out of distrobox

exit

https://fyksen.me/vmware-view-on-steamdeck/

j0hnnyclaymore commented 7 months ago

Sounds like a good solution, will try again. I dont use my deck as a primary desktop anymore. Will try soon in a vm. Thanks!