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Steam pollutes /tmp

steamclosed Feature RequestreviewedSteam client
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1465 · opened 2013-02-09 by Majkl578 · updated 2017-04-04 · 2 comments · github
MMajkl578 2013-02-09 github

Steam pollutes /tmp with its files (pipes). After a short time, I have a lot of similar files in /tmp:

$ ls -1 | grep steam
majkl-steam-cbk-6a74-f5dffb40-2-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-6a74-f5dffb40-2-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-6a74-f71cd700-1-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-6a74-f71cd700-1-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-a96feb40-6-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-a96feb40-6-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-b0a0eb40-4-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-b0a0eb40-4-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-f5effb40-5-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-f5effb40-5-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-f716c700-3-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-75bc-f716c700-3-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-7e77-f5effb40-8-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-7e77-f5effb40-8-sc
majkl-steam-cbk-7e77-f71e7700-7-cs
majkl-steam-cbk-7e77-f71e7700-7-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-6a74-f5dffb40-2-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-6a74-f5dffb40-2-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-6a74-f71cd700-1-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-6a74-f71cd700-1-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-a96feb40-6-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-a96feb40-6-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-b0a0eb40-4-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-b0a0eb40-4-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-f5effb40-5-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-f5effb40-5-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-f716c700-3-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-75bc-f716c700-3-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-7e77-f5effb40-8-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-7e77-f5effb40-8-sc
majkl-steam-cmd-7e77-f71e7700-7-cs
majkl-steam-cmd-7e77-f71e7700-7-sc
majkl-steam-mstr-cs
majkl-steam-mstr-sc

$ ls -1 | grep overlay
gameoverlayrenderer.log
gameoverlayrenderer.log.last
gameoverlayui.log
gameoverlayui.log.last

Plus dumps folder.

Please use subfolder for your mess which is a bit irritating. :)

Aalkavan 2013-02-09 github

agree /tmp/steam can make much more sense. developers for example, are using this folder quite a lot. it can very annoying when there's like bunch of files with same suffix inside.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-04-04 github

Closing as steam does not appear to leave a mess in /tmp anymore.

Nothing extracted yet.