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[RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within Kodi
From a terminal type

which name-of-executable

To get the full path to the program. Use that in AL.
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Hey that's handy!

so retroarch is in /usr/bin/retroarch

fairly certain i tried that one last night and got spat straight back out with "failed to initialize" error.. hrmm I'll try again.

I thought if you're selecting an SNES rom you would need to point it to a SNES emulator.. my understanding was retroarch holds ALL the emulators.
Do you put anything in Emulator Arguments? I left mine blank
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Yeah you need some arguments unless you're using the retroarch gui
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Hello,
I need to add to the steam executable: "-fulldesktopres". How do I do ? This option allows you to run steam in UHD.
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You need to edit the included ahk file and recompile it, details in first post
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Sorry, but I do not know how. I opened the .ahk file, then I changed the line 39: Run,% 1% -bigpicture -fulldesktopres. Then recompiled but it does not open in UHD resolution.

Sorry again, I know nothing about coding.
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(2015-08-03, 08:05)teeedubb Wrote: Yeah you need some arguments unless you're using the retroarch gui

So this happened.
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How can I find error logs? I get an error, but not sure what's causing it as I'm unable to find the log. (says check kodi.log)
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keto14 that line is for only when steam isn't running at all, there's another line you need to edit too.

Dantelarka log file (wiki)
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I think i'm missing something but i keep getting an error when trying this in Linux. Where is the log, it doesn't appear to be in the normal Kodi log.
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Its in the normal kodi log file
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Kodi logs are in home directory under .kodi > temp folder

eg: /home/username/.kodi/temp
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(2015-08-08, 03:02)teeedubb Wrote: Its in the normal kodi log file

May have missed it then, but i also now found out steam doesn't like to launch with out having a window manager.
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(2015-08-08, 07:12)cones Wrote:
(2015-08-08, 03:02)teeedubb Wrote: Its in the normal kodi log file

May have missed it then, but i also now found out steam doesn't like to launch with out having a window manager.

Follow the guide properly.. the guide is good.. the guide is your friend.
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Been meaning to try this for ages, finally did so today. Works really well and was super simple to set up.

Thanks for it!
Addons I wrote &/or maintain:
OzWeather (Australian BOM weather) | Check Previous Episode | Playback Resumer | Unpause Jumpback | XSqueezeDisplay | (Legacy - XSqueeze & XZen)
Sorry, no help w/out a *full debug log*.
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