dlWDIB is downloading an HTML file from GitHub #1257
Description
System Information
- SteamTinkerLaunch version: 14.09.2025
- Distribution: Fedora Silverblue
- Installation Method: Flatpak
Issue Description
Trying to use WDIB, but it's not working. Since it appears the process is forked into the background and it doesn't seem to write any logs I can find, I'm kind of stuck.
Symlinks to the Discord IPC file are present in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, so that would seem to be fine.
In the wiki for this feature, it shows an actual console appearing, which would be really handy for troubleshooting this, but I don't see a way to have WDIB not run in the background (i.e. for troubleshooting purposes).
Any guidance on where to look for logs or enabling debug logging would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: On inspecting the actual file and trying to run it with wine directly, I noticed it's actually not an .exe but HTML output from Github!
ethan@exia:~/.config$ flatpak run --command=sh com.valvesoftware.Steam
[📦 com.valvesoftware.Steam .config]$ cat /var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/wine-discord-ipc-bridge/winediscordipcbridge.exe
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html
lang="en"
data-color-mode="dark" data-dark-theme="dark"
data-color-mode="light" data-light-theme="light" data-dark-theme="dark"
data-a11y-animated-images="system" data-a11y-link-underlines="true"
>
Logs
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - prepareLaunch - checkWDIB:
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 SKIP - dlWDIB - Found /var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/wine-discord-ipc-bridge/winediscordipcbridge.exe - skipping download
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - checkWDIB - Starting '/var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/wine-discord-ipc-bridge/winediscordipcbridge.exe' in the backgound for '881020'
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - setRunProtonFromUseProton - Setting ORUNPROTON to '/var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton'
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 SKIP - setRunProtonFromUseProton - RUNPROTON '/var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton' hasn't changed
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - extProtonRun - Continuing with RUNPROTON='/var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton'
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - extProtonRun - No external program args here it seems
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 WARN - extProtonRun - Attempted to fetch Steam Linux Runtime but failed to find one!
Sun Sep 14 11:59:10 AM CDT 2025 INFO - extProtonRun - Starting '/var/home/ethan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/downloads/wine-discord-ipc-bridge/winediscordipcbridge.exe' forked into the background