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Game uninstall does nothing; Big Picture successfully uninstalls the same game

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13486 · opened 2026-08-05 by rmuchall · updated 2026-08-05 · 1 comments · github
Rrmuchall 2026-08-05 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1785187029
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (resolute)
  • 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]
    See attached
  • GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD
    NVIDIA RTX 4060, driver 595.84

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
Exact reproduction: desktop mode → right-click game → Manage → Uninstall does nothing; Big Picture successfully uninstalls the same game

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Exact reproduction: desktop mode → right-click game → Manage → Uninstall does nothing; Big Picture successfully uninstalls the same game

steam-logs.tar.gz

ZZollicoff 2026-08-05 github

I can reproduce this on a separate Ubuntu 26.04 system using the current Valve .deb launcher and stable client.

System:

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
  • GNOME Shell 50.1 on Wayland
  • Mutter 50.1-0ubuntu2.2
  • Xwayland 24.1.10
  • Kernel 7.0.0-29-generic
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, driver 595.84
  • Valve steam-launcher 1.0.0.87
  • Steam client build 1785799196

Behavior:

  1. In desktop mode, right-click a game in the Library list.
  2. The menu frequently closes immediately.
  3. When it remains open, selecting Manage -> Uninstall dismisses the menu but performs no action and opens no confirmation dialog.
  4. The same general failure also affects game Properties and parts of Storage management.

I captured Steam's live UI logs while reproducing it several times. At 08:52:01, webhelper.txt records the relevant context-menu windows becoming visible. At 08:52:02, it records the Library context-menu window becoming hidden again. There is no subsequent command activation, uninstall request, confirmation-popup creation, backend error, crash, or GNOME journal warning.

For comparison, a working Settings-menu action at 08:49:24 immediately records creation of a new PopupWindow. The failed Uninstall attempts never reach that stage. This suggests that pointer input reaches the context menu and dismisses it, but the selected menu command is not activated.

Additional controls already tested:

  • GNOME focus mode is click, not focus-follows-mouse
  • No fractional scaling; display scale is 1.0
  • Steam context-menu focus compatibility mode enabled
  • Steam GPU acceleration disabled
  • Current Mutter/Xwayland updates installed
  • No MangoHud, Gamescope, or similar input/overlay injection
  • Reproduces after reboot and after replacing Ubuntu's steam-installer package with Valve's official steam-launcher package

I can collect a more targeted trace if there is a preferred Steam logging flag or component to instrument.

Nothing extracted yet.