Thanks for the tips Ed. I personally don't watch the videos on Steam and just use it to download/play games which does not require flash, hence why I think it is best as listed as recommended in the README. Just my opinion of course.
--- <ryanpcmcquen.com> > On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:07 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/16/2014 05:28 PM, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote: >> >> Thank you Talos for making this, very happy to see a SlackBuild >> for this. :) >> >> I would however, like to request that 'flashplayer-plugin' be >> removed as a hard dependency and moved to the README, I am almost >> certain it is not required, but recommended. >> >> Thanks, ryan >> >> --- > > You pretty much *need* flashplayer, otherwise a bunch of stuff such as > videos wont work. Without it Steam Client is only "partially" functional. > > Also, no mention is made about which Slackware Steam can be run on. > Currently, the client and all games are 32-bit only. There needs > comment in the README since the current package makes it look like > Steam can run an all Slackware arch: > > - 32-bit only > - 64-bit with unsupported multilib > > Secondly, I'm still using Alien Bob's spiffy package where he the > added the following to the top of the bootstrap /usr/bin/steam: > > # --- Start Slackware mod --- > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/seamonkey > # Audio output goes to first "hw" device of ALSA > export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa > #export AUDIODEV=hw > # On window close, minimize to the system tray area: > export STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 > # Add any custom variable exports here > [ -f ${HOME}/.steam4slackware ] && . ${HOME}/.steam4slackware > # --- End Slackware mod --- > > Given the Ubuntu/pulseauidio centric nature of Steam, will sound work? > are the seamonkey libs still needed? I couldn't test that since me VM > is not set up for sound. I also didn't test if any games run since > since all that resides on a Slack64 multilib that is "unclean" for SBo > testing. > > Finally, as an FYI, Talos may want to mention in the README that one > can put custom Steam icons in ~/.icons for those cases where the > default steam control panel icon doesn't fit with your WM theme. > > A bunch of this has been discussed on LQ and the Slackware group on > Steam. > > -Ed > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/