using t.console on linux [SOLVED]

[CodeRed]

Hi, i have been wondering if there is a way to use the t.console on Linux or be able to replicate its function? My love set up is vscode using the love2d support extension to run the love appimage. The Linux Distro I am using is Linux Mint.

[zz_zz]

https://www.love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=90245

[CodeRed]

https://www.love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=90245

that solution doesn't work for me because im using the appimage version of love so i can't use the love command.

[GVovkiv]

that solution doesn't work for me because im using the appimage version of love so i can't use the love command.

appimage is still executable, it doesn't work any differently from programs installed in different way. Just make sure that love appimage is runnable and run it in terminal. For example:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage

[CodeRed]

that solution doesn't work for me because im using the appimage version of love so i can't use the love command.

appimage is still executable, it doesn't work any differently from programs installed in different way. Just make sure that love appimage is runnable and run it in terminal. For example:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage

Yeah I can easily run love it self through a terminal just copy the location of love and past it into the terminal and press enter and it will run perfectly fine. I'm asking how to run my love game and be able to write to the console.

[GVovkiv]

Yeah I can easily run love it self through a terminal just copy the location of love and past it into the terminal and press enter and it will run perfectly fine. I'm asking how to run my love game and be able to write to the console.

Pass argument to game path to love appimage, where main.lua is?
Like:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage /path/to/game

And add io.stdout:setvbuf("no") on top of main.lua?

[Andlac028]

appimage is still executable, it doesn't work any differently from programs installed in different way. Just make sure that love appimage is runnable and run it in terminal. For example:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage

Yeah I can easily run love it self through a terminal just copy the location of love and past it into the terminal and press enter and it will run perfectly fine. I'm asking how to run my love game and be able to write to the console.

To run your game through terminal, just add path to folder with main.lua to it:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage path/to/folder/with/main/lua

If you want to read input from terminal, just use io.stdin:read() or just io.read(). But this would pause execution of the program until something is written to terminal, so you may want to run it in another thread (not sure, if it would work…)

[CodeRed]

Yeah I can easily run love it self through a terminal just copy the location of love and past it into the terminal and press enter and it will run perfectly fine. I'm asking how to run my love game and be able to write to the console.

Pass argument to game path to love appimage, where main.lua is?
Like:

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/path/to/appimage/love-11.4-x86_64.AppImage /path/to/game

And add io.stdout:setvbuf("no") on top of main.lua?

oh thank didn't know you could just pass an argument to game path to love appimage where main.lua is. That fixed the problem thank you.

[GVovkiv]

oh thank didn't know you could just pass an argument to game path to love appimage where main.lua is. That fixed the problem thank you.

As I said, appimage love is just love, packaged as appimage, you can do with it same things, as other love *versions*, as dnf or flatpak distribution.