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Steam crashes Gnome Session if opened after a Cut/Paste of file/folder

steamopen Window managerDistro Family: Fedora
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12588 · opened 2025-12-25 by aliasbody · updated 2025-12-28 · 2 comments · github
Aaliasbody 2025-12-25 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1766451605
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 43
  • 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/Intel/AMD

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

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. (with Steam closed) Open Nautilus and Cut a file/folder and paste it anywhere
  2. Open Steam
  3. Gnome Session hangs and crashes to the Login (GDM)
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-12-25 github

Hello @aliasbody, this issue should be reported to the maintainers of your desktop environment as well.

Zzr00da 2025-12-28 github

I started experiencing crashes to GDM since a few days when launching flatpak Steam on Fedora 43, but I can't reproduce it the way @aliasbody describes, or perhaps there is more nuance. It seems to happen when launching Steam after the system has been running for a while doing various things.

Nvm, mine seem to reflect https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12530
Perhaps this is the case for this issue author as well?

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