Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1715635533
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Gentoo
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
• GPU: AMD

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Expected: steam launches without issue when launched by wofi.

What happens: Selecting Steam from wofi application launcher opens the login screen and steam enters the system tray, but after login, the UI is completely inaccessible. There are two workarounds to this issue:

1. run steam from the command line
2. remove PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true from the steam.desktop file.

The second workaround is a significantly better long-term issue, however this is a non-obvious fix. Other people have run into this same issue as seen with this Reddit post and this issue in NixPkgs. I strongly suggest adopting the changes suggested in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9940 as it seems that that option is inherently broken on many systems.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Use sway as your window manager and set wofi to be the menu application with

# other irrelevant configuration
set $menu wofi --show drun
bindsym $mod+d exec $menu
# other irrelevant configuration

1. Press mod+d to open wofi
2. Type steam to filter to the Steam desktop entry
3. Press enter to open the Steam desktop entry