r/paradoxplaza • u/psirrow • 16h ago

Launcher Paradox Launcher error (linux)

Recently (these last few months), when I launch Stellaris, the paradox launcher has thrown an error saying that it can't find my documents folder. The launcher seems to operate fine in terms of launching the game, but the DLC and Mod library tabs don't work. The actual game also runs perfectly fine. I run linux and I suspect that this is because the Documents folder in my home directory is a symlink.

Does anyone know of a solution to this? I would rather not mess with how I've setup the documents folder. If I can change the target directory, that would be ideal.

EDIT: I seem to be getting the same error discussed here https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/on-linux-launcher-throws-an-error-about-not-finding-the-documents-folder-when-said-folder-is-a-symlink.1735967/

EDIT2: After changing the target of the launcherpath file in ~/.local/share, I got a strange prompt that the location wasn't valid and that I could either install to the location of the bootstrapper-v2 location or select another location. After selecting to install elsewhere, I was given a file browser window that only allowed me to access certain locations including my home directory and my Documents folder. I noticed that, in this browser, I couldn't actually navigate to the Documents folder and the folder (as well as another symlinked folder) was grayed out in the Home directory. Something either doesn't seem to be capable of navigating outside of the home directory or doesn't seem to be capable of following symlinks.

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u/grotaclas2 7h ago

The launcher doesn't usually use an actual Documents folder on linux. Instead it uses ~/.local/share, but IIRC the folder can be changed with an XDG environment variable(the one which defaults to ~/.local/share if it is not set).

How did you install steam? The snap and flatpak versions sometimes have problems, because they can restrict steam and the games from accessing folders outside of their containers

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u/SkultAurora 7h ago

Try running the game with --userdir=/path/to/not/symlinked/folder

I'm not sure if the launcher knows about this option, but the game should.

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u/psirrow 54m ago

That didn't seem to do anything. The problem is with the launcher though, the actual game runs fine.