Hi all, I have a 4k monitor and the steam app is very tiny. I have found out that I can fix it by running the app in the terminal with steam -forcedesktopscaling 2, but it is getting tiring launching it through the terminal. Is there any way I can change something in the app itself and make it launch with that command? KDE Plasma on endeavour OS is what I’m running Tried going into the .desktop file to add the command somewhere in the “exec”, but failed. Could someone please help? Thank you

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The other sections are different actions that appear in the context menu of the steam desktop icon, so that you can launch steam straight into big picture for example. If you just launch steam, just the [Desktop Entry] section will execute.

While in my experience the answer you replied to works, to get the same behavior as what you got in the terminal, you should edit the exec line to something like steam --forcedesktopscaling=2 %u.

If you use the separate actions, you should edit it there as well, but those won’t have any effect on just launching steam.

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Switched to this Exec=steam -forcedesktopscaling 2 %U and it still didn’t work. Changed a couple of things there and still nothing. Damn, this is so annoying. Guess I will need to just do it through the terminal and call it a day

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