Steam (Flatpak) can't find switcherooctl

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I’m not able to use switcherooctl to choose my GPU in Steam (Flatpak):

/bin/sh: line 1: switcherooctl: command not found

How am I supposed to pick GPUs on the Flatpak version of steam?

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It is the other way around, you need to call Steam via switcherooctl:
switcherooctl launch -g 1 "steam steam://rungameid/xxxxxxxx"

Adapt the command with GPU ID and Game ID.

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I can’t get that command to work with the flatpak version, but if I do:

switcherooctl launch -g 0 "flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam -applaunch xxxxxxxx"

I can get the game to launch, but it seems to use the NVidia gpu reguardless of if I do g 0 or g 1.

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@aspiringnobody what does the output from switcherooctl list show?

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Device: 0
  Name:        Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD®/ATI] Phoenix3
  Default:     yes
  Environment: DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_06_00_0

Device: 1
  Name:        NVIDIA Corporation AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile]
  Default:     no
  Environment: __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
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@aspiringnobody so you want to start steam with the AMD gpu? If so use Flatseal to set the steam environment variable DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_06_00_0

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I tried this but it still seemed to use the NV gpu. Do I need to restart the system?