Steam on NixOS

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Steam on NixOS

A wiki page exists: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Steam.

I started with simply nix-shell -p steam, which failed with a 404 while trying to download some .deb. I updated my nixos channel, then tried again, and got a shell.

Then I run the following and got a problem:

$ steam

The little Updating Steam popup appeared... Then another glXChooseVisual failed popup, with an ok button. Adding 32bit support in my NixOS configutation fixed that error:

  hardware.pulseaudio.support32Bit = true;
  hardware.opengl.driSupport32Bit = true;

Run steam again and I was prompted for my credentials. A few windows appeared (news, ads, ...).

FTL

When installing FTL, it offers to download it at ~/.local/share/Steam. It starts in fullscreen without problem. Using alsamixer in another terminal to change the sound volume works.

HRM

HRM starts, I hear the music, but the window is not visible... I have edited the file ~/.local/share/Tomorrow\ Corporation/Human\ Resource\ Machine/settings.txt and set fullscreen = 0, and the game screen is now visible.

Note that the game setting are not in ~/.local/share/Steam.