I made a separate user for using Steam (and other games), and it involved a litt...

ekianjo · on Aug 7, 2016

Do you mind sharing how you did this in more details ? I am also not happy with the way Steam games put files in random locations...

notthemessiah · on Aug 8, 2016

For PulseAudio: I needed to load a few modules that opened a TCP socket for myself between users (under TCP support with anonymous clients):

Forgot exactly what I did with X11, but one part of it was having an environment variable that used my main users XAuthority

E.G. [gamer@mycomputer]$ echo $XAUTHORITY

/home/notthemessiah/.Xauthority

AckSyn · on Aug 8, 2016

I did something similar by installing Steam to a chroot environment.

"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer, programmer

This goes doubly for "containers" not understanding chroot/jails.

arno1 · on Aug 8, 2016

Well, there is a distinct difference between traditional chroot and the Linux control groups and namespaces.

If only chroot was enough, noone would be investing their time to the cgroups, namespaces, LXC, Docker, etc... :-)

jjnoakes · on Aug 8, 2016

Are you suggesting that containers provide about what chroot provides?

Containers provide chroot-like behavior for more than just the filesystem. Processes, user IDs, network interfaces... Chroot is filesystem only.