The steam-support interface

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The steam-support interface has been developed specifically to help Valve’s Steam client configure pressure-vessel containers from the Steam snap.

Only the Steam snap may establish this interface. See Introducing early access to the Steam snap for more details.

Interface documentation:

See Interface management and Supported interfaces for further details on how interfaces are used.

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Developer details

Auto-connect: no
Super-privileged: yes

Code examples

The source code for the Steam snap: GitHub - canonical/steam-snap: This is a snap of Valve's [Steam client][1]. It is intended to run on any system that supports snapd, providing a consistent environment to run the games separate from the underlying host operating system. · GitHub

The test code can be found in the snapd repository: snapd/interfaces/builtin/steam_support_test.go at master · canonical/snapd · GitHub

The source code for the interface is in the snapd repository: snapd/interfaces/builtin/steam_support.go at master · canonical/snapd · GitHub

[degville]

@jamesh @James-Carroll Thank you for the fixes and updates you’ve made to this document - I should have asked for a quick review before publishing it!