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FS#72139 - [steam] Black Screen

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Alberto Díaz López (Takuya) - Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 08:40 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 22:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Multilib
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Launching Steam normally, (no steam-runtime launch), causes to doesn't load the homepage, news, etc, being unable to load the Library. It's possible to circumvent this launching Steam via steam-runtime, this way, everything loads as expected, or if you just want to launch/play games, using Small Mode. I filed a bug on the Steam for Linux GitHub repo 2 days ago and a contributor told me that probably is a bug caused because of the changes/modifications made by the Arch Steam's maintainer.

Additional info:
* package version(s) Build 13th September 2021 (1.0.0.72-1 on Arch's repos)
* config and/or log files etc.
* link to upstream bug report, if any https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8069

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Steam normally.
2. Wait to launch.
3. See the black screen no matter where you try to go.
4. Nothing appears on screen.
   steamwebhelper.log (2.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 22:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Sunday, 19 September 2021, 12:24 GMT
I can't reproduce this issue. Is it still happening?
Comment by Alberto Díaz López (Takuya) - Monday, 20 September 2021, 14:37 GMT
Yeah, I detected that somewhat I can avoid the issue launching the app via Krunner, the Runtime version, but I have it and had it to launch from keyboard shortcut, the same one, Runtime, but that way is how I'm facing the issue :(.
Comment by Emil (xexaxo) - Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 21:11 GMT
Might want to double-check _exactly_ what gets executed when you run the "normal" version.

In practise /usr/bin/steam and /usr/bin/steam-runtime are identical in Arch. So you might be using some old steam.desktop (or variant thereof) which has quirks.
Comment by Giancarlo Razzolini (grazzolini) - Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 14:39 GMT
If you call /usr/bin/steam, you're running steam-runtime, yes, given it's a symlink to the latter. However, I'm not able to reproduce this issue with either steam-runtime or steam-native. However, I'm using the beta channel.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 05 June 2023, 14:44 GMT
Is this still an issue?

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