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Elite Dangerous Odyssey Materials Helper
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How to make overlay work on linux? #347

Closed InnerBushman closed 2 months ago

InnerBushman commented 3 months ago

I have the app downloaded and it can read the journal just fine. I can point at things and I get the notifications in the bottom right corner. One thing I don't know how to make work is the overlay when I download the data. Please help? :)

jixxed commented 3 months ago

Enable it on the Settings tab under Augmented Reality

jixxed commented 3 months ago

nvm, just read linux, this is a windows only feature

InnerBushman commented 3 months ago

Is there a reason it's Windows-only feature?

alexzk1 commented 2 months ago

Is there a reason it's Windows-only feature?

Yes. For Linux it needs 2 different versions too, for xserver and for wayland. Also on linux "menu shadows / transparency" are optional, and overlays need it to work. Other words it is not trivial task. I made overlay for EDMC + xserver (no wayland): https://github.com/alexzk1/edmcoverlay_for_linux

If authors want they can reuse binary which draws overlay. I kept in mind it can be used for the other purposes. However, I have no idea if it will be any conflicts if 2 such binary will run for EDMC and this one.

jixxed commented 2 months ago

A lot of work for just a handful of people playing on linux and using the app. Linux compatibility is only there because it is easy to add for the larger part of the application. This is the only thing that doesn't. Perhaps you can try to make it work with proton.