Can't start Quake 2 from desktop icon

[Thomas Milne]

I have Quake 2 installed to /usr/local/games, and it runs fine from a
terminal. However, if I create a launcher on my desktop and run it
that way I just get a black screen and I have to kill Xorg.

I tried creating a script in ~/bin that just does:

cd /usr/local/games/quake2
./quake2

and using that as the command in the launcher, but same result.

Anyone have an idea what's causing this?

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