https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38641
Bug ID: 38641 Summary: Trying to start a Steam game whilst Steam isn't running doesn't open the game Product: Wine Version: 1.7.43 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: ben@xnode.org Distribution: ---
If Steam isn't running and you try and start a Steam game, the expected behaviour (and the behaviour on Windows) is that Steam opens and then the game launches.
On Wine, Steam opens as you'd expect, but it doesn't then try and start the game, it simply sits there at the Steam interface as if you'd opened the Steam and not the game specifically.
Trying to open the game once Steam is already running works as expected.
To recreate this behaviour; On the command line, run this command: wine start steam://run/123456 (replacing '123456' with the ID of a Steam game you have installed in Steam)
This happens regardless of the way you try and launch the game, the command above is simply the easiest way to test.