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If you experience that the game crashes your user session and you have to login again when clicking on the desktop icon, then do the following:

Go to the Stellaris directory [typically /home/username/GOG Games/Stellaris]

Open the start.sh file in a text editor.

In this file find the following function:

# Actions
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
cd game
chmod +x "stellaris"
export LC_ALL=C
./"stellaris"
}

Change the last line from :

./"stellaris"

to

x-terminal-emulator -e ./"stellaris"

If it still crashes try:

xterm -e ./"stellaris"

If you do not want to see the terminal window you can try:

xterm -iconic -e ./"stellaris"

Note that x-terminal-emulator depends on which terminal you have as default, so the option can be differently named. Usually a x-terminal-emulator --help will show you the options.

HTH
Post edited January 02, 2019 by oblidor
I'm bumping this thread because it helped me a lot and GoG doesn't seem willing or able to adress the issue on their own
Post edited April 21, 2019 by hmcpretender
Thank you kind sir. may god bless you with a bunch of kids.
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oblidor: If you experience that the game crashes your user session and you have to login again when clicking on the desktop icon, then do the following:

Go to the Stellaris directory [typically /home/username/GOG Games/Stellaris]

Open the start.sh file in a text editor.

In this file find the following function:

# Actions
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
cd game
chmod +x "stellaris"
export LC_ALL=C
./"stellaris"
}

Change the last line from :

./"stellaris"

to

x-terminal-emulator -e ./"stellaris"

If it still crashes try:

xterm -e ./"stellaris"

If you do not want to see the terminal window you can try:

xterm -iconic -e ./"stellaris"

Note that x-terminal-emulator depends on which terminal you have as default, so the option can be differently named. Usually a x-terminal-emulator --help will show you the options.

HTH
Thanks bunches. You just made my day! After changing it to the first suggested linie it worked like a charm! <3 Thanks man!
Thanks !
I get all my drivers updated for nothing :)

I'm curious about an explanation for this, if someone knows...
In Manjaro Xfce I used: xfce4-terminal -e ./"stellaris"
Wonderful, Thank you.

When the game loads, the first dialogue box is still black, so I have no idea what it says.