[BUG] VR Button in Steam: Could not find any application or handler for steam://run/250820/

steamvrclosed bug

ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux#260 · opened 2019-10-09 by Zamundaaa · updated 2019-11-01 · 1 comments · github

ZZamundaaa 2019-10-09 github

System Information (please complete the following information):

Distribution: [Arch/Manjaro/Ubuntu/etc.] Manjaro KDE
SteamVR version: [E.g. 1.7.2] 1.8.10
Steam client version: [build number or date] 1570492308
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
Graphics driver version: Mesa 19.3.0-devel (git-6309c31fd8) (LLVM 10.0.0)
Gist for SteamVR System Information: https://gist.github.com/Zamundaaa/f1350cd78f8741932825c4a31086839a

When trying to use the VR button in the top right of steam this popup appears:
Screenshot_20191009_143219
and SteamVR doesn't start. If I execute "steam steam://run/250820/" it does work.
I had this issue previously but it was resolved with the next Steam update. This time it didn't.

ZZamundaaa 2019-11-01 github

This doesn't seem to be an issue really related to SteamVR at all, but a Steam issue. I just tried starting a game from SteamVR home and a similar error appeared.
Turns out all xdg-open steam... wouldn't work, and the reason was that the steam.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ was wrong. I just deleted it and now everything works, so if anyone gets the same problem, try that.

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