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Steam crash looping when opened from dock

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12403 · opened 2025-10-21 by sudo-perserverance · updated 2025-10-21 · 1 comments · github
Ssudo-perserverance 2025-10-21 github

System information

  • Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D75
  • AMD Ryzen™ 9 7900X × 24
  • 32.0 GiB
  • AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT
  • Firmware version: 1.I0
  • Linux 6.14.0-33-generic
  • Wayland
  • 64-bit
  • Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
  • Steam client version: 21/10/2025
  • Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800XT

So I recently installed Linux Ubuntu as a dual boot with windows (on separate NVMEs)
I've installed steam and it would show to start up screen you get before it loads the library but then it closes down, waits roughtly 10 seconds attempts to open again but immediatly closes (skipping the loading screen this time). It repeats this until i "pkill" it.

I tried fixing this myself and found that opening it from the terminal using "steam" works fine as well as copying the steam.desktop to my desktop, allowing it as an executable, allowing it to launch and running it like a shortcut. However, when I open it from the dock or from the windows key it causes the problem.

steam-logs.tar.gz

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-10-21 github

Hello @sudo-perserverance, this issue is already being tracked at #9383. Closing as a duplicate.

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