[Solved] Help making desktop launcher (Xfce) for a game + vkbasalt

[Dude Guyman]

I figured out how to get vkbasalt (adds fxaa, smaa, antialiasing to a game) to pretty up Serious Sam games by using "ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 /home/username/Portable/SamTSE/Bin/SeriousSam" in the terminal. I would like to create a launcher/shortcut on the desktop or start menu to do the same thing but can't figure it out. If I put the above text (with the ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 part) as the command it just spits out errors. Without ENABLE_VKBASALT=1, it launches the game, but no vkbasalt.

Example: My menulibre-serious-sam-se.desktop file (start menu shortcut) contains this:

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Name=Serious Sam SE
Comment=game
Icon=/home/username/Portable/SamTSE/SSTSE.ico
Exec=/home/username/Portable/SamTSE/Bin/SeriousSam
Actions=
Categories=Game;Shooter;

How could I change it so it activates vkbasalt when launched? If I just add it to the "Exec=" part, it just breaks the shortcut/launcher.

[dlu2021]

You could use the env command (man env), so the exec line would look like this:

Exec=env ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 /home/username/Portable/SamTSE/Bin/SeriousSam

[Dude Guyman]

"Exec=env ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 /home/username/Portable/SamTSE/Bin/SeriousSam" results in the same or very similar error:

Failed to run SSTSE.desktop
GDBus.error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dexec_2derror_2dquark.Code8: Failed to execute child process "Exec=env" (no such file or directory)

The previous one was the same but ended with something like: "Failed to execute child process "ENABLE_VKBASALT" (no such file or directory)"

[yesh]

Dude, try the exec line like so:

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env ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 /home/username/Portable/SamTSE/Bin/SeriousSam

[Dude Guyman]

That worked, Thank you very much! I totally spaced the first time and included the "exec=" bit in the "edit launcher" dialog, which would double it like "Exec=Exec=env ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 blah blah blah".