🧖🏻‍♀️ Symlink your Steam screenshots to a sensible place

Jessica Stokes

Last update: Jan 31, 2023

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Overview

`lnshot`

🧖🏻‍♀️ Symlink your Steam games' screenshot directories into your Pictures folder

About

This is a little utility to work around a bugbear of mine with the Steam client. Steam provides a pretty handy in-game screenshot tool, but the screenshots are stored deep in Steam's own folder hierarchy, despite lacking any cloud sync function other than uploading them manually.

Running lnshot will generate a set of symbolic links (basically, folders which are shortcuts) for each game's screenshot directory within your normal Pictures folder. This means you get this:

📂 ~/Pictures/Steam Screenshots
└ 📂 Ticky
  ├ 📂 Hardspace Shipbreaker
  │ └ 🌌 20221020102933_1.jpg
  ├ 📂 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  │ └ 🌃 20221005164632_1.jpg
  └ 📂 The Big Con
    └ 🏞 20221005164632_1.jpg

Instead of this:

📂 ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata
└ 📂 69420691
  └ 📂 760
    └ 📂 remote
      ├ 📂 1139280
      │ └ 📂 screenshots
      │   └ 🏞 20221005164632_1.jpg
      ├ 📂 1161580
      │ └ 📂 screenshots
      │   └ 🌌 20221020102933_1.jpg
      └ 📂 6547380
        └ 📂 screenshots
          └ 🌃 20221005164632_1.jpg

lnshot can detect Steam's installation directory, and automatically find your Pictures folder across all three supported Steam platforms.

User folders are generated for each Steam user logged into your system (filtering is not yet supported). Game folders will be named after your game title for non-Steam shortcuts, and named the same as the steamapps/common installation folder for games managed by Steam, which is usually a reasonable name. This may change to use the full Steam app name in the future.

lnshot does this offline, using only the metadata Steam already has stored on your hard disk.

Installation

Builds are not currently provided, so it's currently expected that you know your way around the Rust compiler.

Clone this repository and run cargo install --path . inside it.

Usage

Run lnshot to automatically symlink to Steam Screenshots within your Pictures folder.

lnshot --help provides information about other options, including using a different name for the Steam Screenshots folder.

Automation

lnshot provides a "daemon" mode, allowing for monitoring the file system for changes in the Steam screenshot folders.

Linux (Steam Deck)

On Steam Deck, we can take advantage of systemd to run lnshot automatically.

Run mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user to create the folder we need

Create ~/.config/systemd/user/lnshot.service (easy mode: nano ~/.config/systemd/user/lnshot.service), and paste this into it:

[Unit]
Description=Steam Screenshot Symlinking Service

[Service]
ExecStart=%h/.cargo/bin/lnshot daemon
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Save the file
Run systemctl enable --user lnshot.service to make it automatically start in the future.

Comments

shortcuts.vdf does not exist

My Steam config folder does not contain a config/shortcuts.vdf, so this tool fails at that step. Do I need to instruct Steam to create shortcuts for every game when I install them for this to exist?

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(help) Respect disable_colored_help when using arg_required_else_help

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Speed up compiling arg! macro

v4.1.3

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(error) Improve suggested flag/value/subcommand when two share a long preifx

(error) When suggesting one of several subcommands, use the plural subcommands, rather than subcommand

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In documentation, refer to get_flag, rather than get_one::<bool>

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[4.1.4] - 2023-01-24

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(help) Respect disable_colored_help when using arg_required_else_help

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Speed up compiling arg! macro

[4.1.3] - 2023-01-23

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(error) Improve suggested flag/value/subcommand when two share a long preifx

(error) When suggesting one of several subcommands, use the plural subcommands, rather than subcommand

[4.1.2] - 2023-01-23

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In documentation, refer to get_flag, rather than get_one::<bool>

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7c4c658 Merge pull request #4673 from epage/arg

bbe5eaa perf: Speed up compiling arg! macro

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dc89379 fix(help): Respect disable_colored_help for arg_required_else_help

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(parser) When overriding required(true), consider args that conflict with its group

v4.0.31

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Speed up parsing when a lot of different flags are present (100 unique flags)

v4.0.30

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(error) Improve error for args_conflicts_with_subcommand

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Hard-code built-in apps

Some apps, like the Steam client itself, are not "installed" games, but do have a Steam app ID (7, in the case of the client). These probably need to be hard-coded.

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📝 Use Steam app names instead of folder names
Fixes #4

To-do:

[ ] Verify this doesn't break on games whose names have special characters. Good candidates:

[ ] </reality> (has demo) - breaks on Linux

[ ] BRAIN / OUT (free to play) - breaks on macOS & Linux

[ ] CAGE-FACE | Case 1: The Mine (free)

[ ] eden* (has demo)

[ ] FTL: Faster Than Light (owned)

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Steam game folder names aren't always sensible

Game folders will be named after your game title for non-Steam shortcuts, and named the same as the steamapps/common installation folder for games managed by Steam, which is usually a reasonable name.

NFS Unbound breeches this social contract, instead using its codename of "Excalibur", so this behaviour may need revision.

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