It's possible to run $HOME/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrstartup.sh directly but I don't know if that will solve the problem correctly when linking with ALVR or other apps etc...
Run
sudo setcap CAP_SYS_NICE+ep ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor-launcher
And no it has nothing to do with ALVR just how flatpak is with apps not explicitly built for it and I'm not sure you could it's complicated to say the least
Also make sure you are building alvr with the flatpak version of ALVR any other version isn't going to work(you need to build it yourself)
fair enough, for now I've moved back to system runtime steam for better performance anyway.
Thanks for help. I'll close this now.
Nothing extracted yet.
Describe the bug
SteamVR won't launch due to vrcompositor-launcher trying to use pkexec under flatpak
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior
be able to launch vrcompositor-launcher without pkexec or elevation issues under flatpak
System Information (please complete the following information):
Additional context
Some output from Steam. Also it does fail to initialize SteamVR on startup, but that may be normal.