Steam resume working after closing all its windows

steamclosed reviewedNot a bugSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2306 · opened 2013-04-11 by Ghost99 · updated 2019-07-18 · 5 comments · github

GGhost99 2013-04-11 github

Steam resume working after closing all its windows in background.
I have Gentoo amd64 system with GNOME2 with x11-wm/metacity-2.30.3. Please check it on Ubuntu.

Steps to reproduce:

Open Steam main window
Open friends window
Close main Steam window via applications bar (right mouse button on application name on bar -> close)
Close friends list window by pressing cross on top-right corner of that window

Now there is no visible windows and no system tray icon of Steam, but steam process is alive and active. Users can think that Steam is closed, but it's not.

P.S. There is no system tray icon of Steam presents on current stable version. If it would be there, then it would not be a bug.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-04-12 github

Are you launching steam with STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 ? Its current behaviour should leave a taskbar entry when all windows are closed.

(I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME2 + metacity)

GGhost99 2013-04-12 github

I don't know, I'm running /usr/bin/steam without any additional variables.
When I closing all Steam windows via taskbar -> close, then steam process finishes, but when I closing windows as I wrote in report, then steam process is still running without any window opened and any tray icon. This is weird.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-16 github

This is expected behavior as Steam keeps running even with no open windows. The issue for you most likely is that your distro doesn't support libappindicator so you aren't seeing the tray icon that Steam provides on systems like Unity.

GGhost99 2013-04-18 github

@gdrewb-valve You are right, dev-libs/libappindicator isn't installed in my system.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-18 github

Thanks, closing

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