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Lutris: Pre-launch / Post-exit scripts not being executed (feddit.org)
submitted 1 week ago by ackthxbye@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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I'm on Nobara 42 and use the pre-installed Lutris.

I'm trying to use pre-launch and post-exit scripts with Lutris. My script looks like this: echo "pre launch" > /home/me/Documents/lutris.txt and creates the textfile when I run it manually.
I set the full path to the script in a game as a Pre-launch script and toggled Wait for pre-launch script completion to on.
The game just launches normally when I click play and the text-file is not created.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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[–] ackthxbye@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, both the test-script that just echos and the real script I was trying to get to run now work.

I'm guessing when I run it from the terminal I'm already in the context of bash, so the script runs, but when Lutris runs the script I don't have this context?