Hi, would you include the information we ask for here ‐ https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#reporting-issues

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[0718/044959:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[0718/044959:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
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** (steam:21506): WARNING **: _nm_remote_settings_ensure_inited: (NMRemoteSettings) error initializing: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files

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ExecCommandLine: "/home/hugo/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam"
System startup time: 5.00 seconds
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ExecCommandLine: "/home/hugo/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
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[2013-07-18 04:49:38] Startup - updater built Jul 16 2013 12:25:30
[2013-07-18 04:49:38] Opted in to client beta 'publicbeta' via beta file
[2013-07-18 04:49:38] Verifying installation...
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Shutting down. . .
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System Information

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    Speed: 3600 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    8 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    "Arch Linux" (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.10.1-1-ARCH
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11402000
    X Window Manager:  Compiz
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-06-28

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8800 GT/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.32
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x611
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.47" x 12.76"  (24.09" diag)
                                            52.0cm x 32.4cm  (61.2cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 512 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC892

Memory:
    RAM:  15032 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_CA.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  899467 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  126926 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

Ways to Reproduce

• If using compiz, use scale to see all windows, and close the main steam.
• Press alt+f4 when focused on the main steam window.
• Alt+Right click on the Steam window to open the window's menu (if you have a taskbar like on gnome2, kde or xfce, right-click on the taskbar entry, that'd be the same menu) and pick close.

Please note that by taskbar I do not mean the traybar, but the actual taskbar.

Feel free to ask me if you need anything else.

But clicking the really-tiny "X" on the upper-right corner of the screen minimizes to tray. The behaviour is rather inconsistant and unintuitive.
Also, since steam has it's own widgets, the "X" has a fixed size and is hard to point at for people with poor motor skills.

Under XFCE Steam window will be always in windows list. Why doesn't it closes to tray?

any workaround for this?

It's not just the main steam window, by the way. It is any steam window at all, including the friends list and any of the dialogs that may pop up. For all of them the behavior is the same as what you mentioned: clicking the X works perfectly, but sending a kill signal to the window (the equivalent of alt+f4 in windows) exits steam.

I found this reddit thread with some helpful info.

Two things there worked for me:

• xdotool windowunmap
• Mousing over a tab like Library and then sending kill or alt+f4 or whatever. I bet this has to do with the popup somehow, but it's not very useful for me because it's only for the main window, and it requires the rodent :mouse: :computer_mouse:.

Like one person said, xdotool windowclose seemed to work at first but upon further investigation it actually put steam into a weird zombie state.

Same behaviour here, on Gnome 3.32 Manjaro Linux

I found this reddit thread with some helpful info.

Two things there worked for me:

* `xdotool windowunmap`

* Mousing over a tab like Library and _then_ sending `kill` or alt+f4 or whatever. I bet this has to do with the popup somehow, but it's not very useful for me because it's only for the main window, and it requires the rodent mouse computer_mouse.

Like one person said, xdotool windowclose seemed to work at first but upon further investigation it actually put steam into a weird zombie state.

Ha! That's me! Wanted to add that I've been running into this weird behavior lately, when re-opening steam after a windowunmap steam handles a single left click as a multi-select click. It will highlight stuff in the store or select multiple games in library instead of just doing a single left click.

same here for Kubuntu 18.04 LTS. using ANY methode to close steam except for the stupidly small x in the steam windows itself knocks it down completely instead of (like in windows) sending it to the systray, where you can only kill steam using the Exit option or the task Manager or other things to kill the process.

is there any workaround for this?

7 years and 8 months... Valve... I love you guys, but what are you doing, seriously?? Why is this so difficult to fix?

I have the opposite problem. When I close the steam window it DOES NOT exit. I wish I would.

@akvadrako try setting environment variable STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 before running steam.

I know this isn't a "fix", just a suggestion, but most Linux programs I know of that have a tray, do so by having it as a separate application.

If closing the window to tray was causing issues for people, maybe it would make the most sense to ship a separate steam-tray application that maintains steam state and destroys/creates the Steam application window.

That usually requires applications to realistically run a daemon though, and Steam is a lot more monolithic than that.

Anyway, the script provided in the reddit thread worked for me, however it's a very hacky workaround. Please fix. I am commenting here in the hopes that we can get a real fix for this.

EDIT: Okay it seems KeepassXC, another monolithic application, has a system tray icon too, and it works fine. I guess Steam could do this, maybe some bugs just need to be worked out.

Anyway, the script provided in the reddit thread worked for me, however it's a very hacky workaround. Please fix. I am commenting here in the hopes that we can get a real fix for this.

Where's the script in the Reddit thread?

EDIT: Found it! https://github.com/farfalleflickan/i3SteamOrKill

It's really annoying.. I have a dual-boot system With Garuda Linux (Arch-based), running KDE and Windows 10. On Windows 10 I close the steam window and then it minimizes to the tray icon. Just minimizing it, minimizes it to the taskbar (on KDE using Latte-Dock, it's the dock). I would expect the same on my Linux installation, since steam just takes space on my panel. So I close it as I would do it in Windows and bam steam shuts down itself and running games which are not saved. There isn't even a need to close steam via x-server or xorg or any other used desktop-manager, since you can rightclick on the tray as on Windows and end Steam.
As a proposal, you could make it optional for Linux in the "UI-Settings" from Steam. Why is this still a thing though?

But clicking the really-tiny "X" on the upper-right corner of the screen minimizes to tray. The behaviour is rather inconsistant and unintuitive. Also, since steam has it's own widgets, the "X" has a fixed size and is hard to point at for people with poor motor skills.

It's actually worse than this.

It seems to be absolutely positioned so if you use a tiling WM like i3 and split the screen in half vertically (so the steam Window becomes tall), the X button disappears. Because the usual way to close applications with a tiling WM is a keyboard shortcut anyway (which, IIRC sends SIGQUIT), but Steam doesn't close the normal way (minimizing to tray) and instead just dies.

This means that, with a tiling WM, in certain window positions, there's no easy way to close steam to the tray.

They could probably fix this by making the exit button in steam do the standard application close behavior, and ensure that it closes correctly when it receives the close signal.

I think someone should try other close methods too, like alt-f4, to see if they break it

This seems to be fixed in the current beta

Now also works for non-beta steam on steam package version 1682708537 (KDE)