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Friends List Right Click Context Menu Glitch Unreadable Arch Linux

steamclosed NVIDIA driversDistro Family: ArchWeb Component
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11567 · opened 2024-12-12 by n1c3c0d3 · updated 2025-01-23 · 10 comments · github
Nn1c3c0d3 2024-12-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1733265492
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch KDE Plasma
  • Kernel Version: 6.12.4-arch1-1
  • Display Server Protocol: Wayland
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: N/A
  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Steam Runtime Diagnostics: https://gist.github.com/n1c3c0d3/351c76350071a8381d93dd01bdc1afd8

When right clicking friends on the friend list window, more than half the time it causes the entire context menu to blur with lines.

It should be legibile and allow to select menu options, normally.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Open Friends List from steam app ipon in task tray
  2. Right click on any friend
  3. Context menu glitch is visible

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Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-12-13 github

Hello @n1c3c0d3, please copy the contents of Steam Runtime Diagnostics from Steam (Steam -> Help -> Steam Runtime Diagnostics) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.

Nn1c3c0d3 2024-12-14 github

Done.

Importantly I forgot to mention my display server protocol is Wayland not X11, that might make a difference.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-12-14 github

This is more of a guess than anything, does adding lib32-egl-wayland from the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-egl-wayland) have any effect?

This is a guess based on the 32 bit OpenGL / EGL render path not looking particularly healthy (https://gist.github.com/n1c3c0d3/351c76350071a8381d93dd01bdc1afd8#file-gistfile1-txt-L129-L158), and hypothetically if that menu happened to be rendered by llvmpipe instead of the NVIDIA driver as a result, then that would be an unexpected driver combination while also not being unconditionally broken.

Nn1c3c0d3 2024-12-14 github

I think it might be deprecated, it doesn't seem to be allowing implementation with the current wayland version.

I also confirmed that my kernel is actively using the nvidia drivers not llvmpipe

SShimSekai 2024-12-17 github

Using arch, nvidia and wayland. Also happens for me, disabling GPU accelerated rendering in web views 'fixes' it.

Nn1c3c0d3 2024-12-18 github

Using arch, nvidia and wayland. Also happens for me, disabling GPU accelerated rendering in web views 'fixes' it.

Confirmed this solved the issue for me, thank you!

Nn1c3c0d3 2024-12-18 github

Solution to temporarily resolve issue: disable GPU accelerated web rendering in UI interface settings.

Bbleuthoot-sven 2025-01-23 github

Solution to temporarily resolve issue: disable GPU accelerated web rendering in UI interface settings.

This isn't really a solution. Disabling this option makes Big Picture run really slow. Disabling GPU rendering also disables the "Hardware Video Decoding" option.

Nn1c3c0d3 2025-01-23 github

Solution to temporarily resolve issue: disable GPU accelerated web rendering in UI interface settings.

This isn't really a solution. Disabling this option makes Big Picture run really slow. Disabling GPU rendering also disables the "Hardware Video Decoding" option.

Ill reopen then and see if the issue can be tracked down over time.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-01-23 github

Hello @n1c3c0d3, @bleuthoot-sven, this issue is currently being tracked at #10537. Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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