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Steam link iOS on Linux host steam - black screen

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12205 · opened 2025-07-14 by jdm0830 · updated 2025-07-14 · 1 comments · github
Jjdm0830 2025-07-14 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date):
    Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
    Steam Version: 1751405894
    Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Jun 27 6:07 PM UTC -08:00
    Steam Web Build Date: Tue, Jul 1 2:19 PM UTC -08:00
    Steam API Version: SteamClient022
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu):
    Fedora + KDE Plasma
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
  • GPU: Nvidia

steam-logs.tar.gz

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Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

hola! i got a question lol. so i got fedora + kde installed. I have steam. i have fall out running flawlessly. now i want to complicated it by trying to get steam link to work so i can play from my phone. when ever i launch it get a couple things going on.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

first, ill have a pop up on the launcher. on computer it asks for permissions to share. while this happens, the screen goes black on my phone. when i accept, it displays the launcher. i can successfully launch.

then its a black screen with a red ball in the bottom right. i hear the music and i can hear my self fumbling around with the controls over the menu items. if i exit the game on the computer, the screen stays black as well. on my computer i see the accept share again.

so i turn off decoding/encoding. Partial success. similar behaviour through the launcher. upon launcher, i get the top corner of the loading screen, or right bottom, or whatever. game proceeds, but the screen on the phone stays. music is heard and menu items can be heard as i interact. same behavuior with share. if i exit game, still black on phone until i exit stream. then i have a bunch of screen share icons in the system tray.

I did cross post in a few places. someone linked back to a bug in 2021 I think. i wanted to see if theres something i can besides try running this in x11 sessions. im a big fan of KDE plasma and daily this thing.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-07-14 github

Hello @jdm0830, this issue is already being tracked at #6148.

Skimming through you streaming_log.txt, WARNING: Desktop capture unavailable, try running Steam with -pipewire might be worth trying as a workaround.

Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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