I’ve had my stream deck sit around for a bit and thought why not put it to use as I redo my linux dev machine? So I setoff and that I would document the process from here.
I found an abandoned project on github called streamdeck-linux-gui. Even though it was abandoned, it looked promising. I was able to get it running pretty quickly using the guide. In the end, I first ran the following to install pipx and setup the local bin directory and add it to the path. I also check my .profile to ensure .local was loaded on the PATH every shell session.
sudo apt install libhidapi-libusb0 pipx
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
Then I add the streamdeck rules to udev
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streamdeck-linux-gui/streamdeck-linux-gui/main/udev/60-streamdeck.rules -O /etc/udev/rules.d/60-streamdeck.rules
Then I reloaded the udev rules using udevadm triggers.
sudo udevadm trigger
python3 -m pipx install streamdeck-linux-gui
That gave this output. I got a file exists because of multiple runs in some troubleshooting.
⚠️ File exists at /home/clinton/.local/bin/streamdeck and points to /home/clinton/.local/bin/streamdeck, not
/home/clinton/.local/pipx/venvs/streamdeck-linux-gui/bin/streamdeck. Not modifying.
installed package streamdeck-linux-gui 4.1.3, installed using Python 3.10.12
These apps are now globally available
- streamdeckc
- streamdeck (symlink missing or pointing to unexpected location)
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨
Afterwords it works easy peasy. I configured some custom apps, shortcuts, and then I was cooking. Last thing I did was added to my applications menu and autostart using the following commands.
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart && echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nExec=$(which streamdeck)\nHidden=false\nNoDisplay=false\nX-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true\nName=StreamDeck" > ~/.config/autostart/streamdeck.desktop
cp ~/.config/autostart/streamdeck.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/