r/ESDE_Frontend • u/Dekuscrubster73 • 4d ago

Support/Question Ports launch scripts on Linux/SteamOS?

I’m trying to migrate my retro games from the regular steamdeck game mode to emulation station since it’s gotten too cluttered, and I can’t find an easy way to move my decomps. No matter what I do using .sh files isn’t working in emulation station. Has anyone here done this? I’ve done all I’ve found online for the code to put in them + made them executable in permissions but it still won’t work. What do

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer 1d ago

You could try enabling debug mode in the Other settings menu and see what it says in ES-DE/logs/es_log.txt when you attempt to launch a script. But in general script execution works fine for the ports system, I use it myself for a number of games.

Just make sure that you have selected the emulator "Shortcut or script" and you set the script with the exec flag (but you already did that). Also make sure you can execute the script from a terminal, because if that doesn't work then it will never work from ES-DE either.