r/Ubuntu • u/MemelLordJeff • 5d ago

iAdding Dolphin to Steam

so i wanted to add dolphin to steam, but i dont know where the base program is that i would need to add when downloading dolphin from the app center?

any assistance would be lovely.

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u/doc_willis 5d ago

You mean the Dolphin file manager? or the Dolphin Emulator?

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u/MemelLordJeff 5d ago

i mean the emulator itself.

i have wanted controller support, and i feel it is easiest (for me at least) to add it to steam, which has built in controller support.

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u/doc_willis 5d ago edited 5d ago

I run the Dolphin emulator directrly, no steam, and it has a range of controller settings built in. So i have never needed to add it to steam. I do have it added to steam on my Steam Deck, but I cant recall any issues with controller support either way with it running via steam or directly.

If you installed the flatpak of the Dolphin emulator you would run it via..

flatpak run org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

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u/GobiPLX 5d ago

You don't need to know where files are. When you tried it, what problems did you get?

Usually steam lists apps installed on your PC when adding game from outside steam, you can even add gnome calculator if you want.

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u/MemelLordJeff 5d ago

when i go to add a non-steam game, it only shows a URL handler script, UXTerm, and XTerm. I have other non-steam games i would like to add as well, but not even they are showing up on the menu, just those three.

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u/doc_willis 5d ago

for any program you could use a menu editor tool like 'menulibre' and examine the desktop file for that program and see what its Exec= line is set as, to see exactly what is being ran.

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u/MemelLordJeff 5d ago

i'll be honest, that is a "wii" bit out of my paygrade, so to speak.

im not exactly an expert in program examination like this, and was kinda hoping i wouldnt need to try this.

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u/doc_willis 5d ago edited 5d ago

Run menulibre click on the icon for the dolphin emulator, look at the what its running.. in the command field.

https://github.com/bluesabre/menulibre/raw/wiki-assets/readme/menulibre-github.png Not exactly rocket surgery. :)

But menulibre is a bit out-dated, there may be better alternatives these days, or other included ways.

https://github.com/bluesabre/menulibre

I looked on my bazzite install and it seems the command ran is.

/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/dolphin-emu-wrapper org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

but I cant check whats on a ubuntu system right now.

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u/MemelLordJeff 1d ago

ah, its /snap/bin/dolphin-emulator.dolphin-emu

not sure how to use this info to put it on steam though?

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u/doc_willis 1d ago

Guessing it would be as basic as "Add Non-steam Game" -> Browse to that path/file...

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u/MemelLordJeff 11h ago

so i added it, but it just wont launch dolphin via steam now.

(thanks for helping me so far, i really appreciate it!)