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Steam terminal output

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4143 · opened 2015-11-18 by loisgomez · updated 2019-02-08 · 5 comments · github
Lloisgomez 2015-11-18 github

Steam used to give much more information when ran throught the terminal. I was able to fix quite a few games not launching due to missing libraries. Nowadays the steam client just spams these like hell:

Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 60
Refresh rate: 15
Refresh rate: 15

No usable info when a game fails to launch.

Ssizeofbool 2015-11-19 github

@bertogs It is not required to launch Steam Client from console to get logs. These logs are saved automatically by default here:

/tmp/dumps/yourusername_stdout.txt
Lloisgomez 2015-11-19 github

Ive reinstalled steam from the .deb package on steam website and now im able to see logs in the terminal again... I was installing it directly from Ubuntu software center before and maybe something went wrong...

TTele42 2015-11-19 github

If steam is already running when you try to run steam from a terminal, then you will not see stdout from games in that terminal.

Lloisgomez 2015-11-19 github

Think first time on Ubuntu i just did sudo apt-get install steam but something must be wrong with the steam package with Ubuntu cos i was missing those stdout debug info... installing from the deb package from steam website fixed it.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-02-08 github

Hello @loisgomez, Ubuntu's package for Steam (inherited from Debian) redirects the terminal spew to ~/.steam/error.log. If you still want to pursue this issue, then this needs to be reported to the distro's package maintainer(s) for Steam.

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