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Client GUI not opening

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11402 · opened 2024-10-28 by uwuplant · updated 2024-10-29 · 2 comments · github
Uuwuplant 2024-10-28 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1729917543
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): EndeavourOS
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes, occurs on stable release as well.
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: AMD (RX 6800)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam launches normally, but (except for rare occasions) any attempts to open the client GUI result in nothing opening. This has been occurring for me for around a month now.
The issue occurs both on X11 and Wayland, across multiple desktop environments (KDE, Sway).

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch Steam
  2. Attempt to open library (or any other menu option)
Ddavibu 2024-10-29 github

Are you able to start steam from the terminal?
I had a similar issue and could fix it by starting steam from the terminal.

After I disabled GPU accelerated rendering in web view in the steam settings, I was able to start steam normally again.
I also have a RX6800 so maybe it helps.

Uuwuplant 2024-10-29 github

Are you able to start steam from the terminal? I had a similar issue and could fix it by starting steam from the terminal.

After I disabled GPU accelerated rendering in web view in the steam settings, I was able to start steam normally again. I also have a RX6800 so maybe it helps.

In the few times I tried yesterday, opening from a terminal didn't change anything. Either way, I can't open the settings menu, so I'll probably have to track down the setting in a config file later to confirm if this helps.

Nothing extracted yet.