Your system information

Full information: https://paste.rs/VBwFk

• Steam client version (build number or date):
  • Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
  • Steam Version: 1759461205
  • Steam Client Build Date: Thu, Oct 2 10:27 PM UTC -08:00
  • Steam Web Build Date: Thu, Oct 2 2:12 PM UTC -08:00
  • Steam API Version: SteamClient023
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
• Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs] https://brightlight.today/fileserver/downloads/642258e627eaee24f6304a2c230874e4
• GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD Intel Arc A750

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

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

After starting Steam, the X window system slows to a crawl: roughly 1 fps. That is on all workspaces, all applications. It seems to be related to something steam is doing because if I let it sit for a couple minutes, framerate goes back up. But when I start a game, the framerate goes back down again.

I expected the framerate and performance of the system to remain while running steam.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Run Steam