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System tray context menu not respecting launch option preference

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13253 · opened 2026-05-24 by avickers · updated 2026-05-24 · 1 comments · github
Aavickers 2026-05-24 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1779486452
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu
  • 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 Blackwell Generation

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When launching games from the contextual menu in the system tray on Ubuntu Gnome, the Steam client ignores any launch option selections that I have made previously.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Choose a launch option to always use when launching the game from the library.
  2. Relaunch the game with client window in focus and it launches with the selected option, as expected.
  3. Minimize the client to the system tray and launch the game by the contextual menu, the saved launch option setting is ignored and it uses the default option instead.
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-05-24 github

Hello @avickers, this is the same issue as https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11252. Feel free to add your experience to the older issue report.

Closing in favor of the older issue report.