Same problem here.
@Kosyne , have you tried another window manager?
Gnome 3 doesn't have tabs in a taskbar, however each Steam windows appears individually when using Alt-Tab or Alt-# (depends of the behaviour). I could try under XFCE or KDE to see if the same problem appears. I'm trying to figure out if this is related to some window managers only.
Okay guys, I had the same problem myself, turns out it's only cinnamon doing it, it works fine with XFCE and MATE (Which I am currently using).
I believe this problem is a combination of Steam initially generating the window with a null title and Cinnamon not handling a null value for this field since 2.8 when the window previews were added.
I have opened an issue on the Cinnamon bug tracker with a patch that fixes it (may not be a good fix, but it does work). I have not experienced this bug with any other application or even any other type of Steam window. It only happens with chat windows.
Here is the bug I opened on Cinnamon's bug tracker: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4950
This is now fixed in the git version of Cinnamon, so it should work properly in the next version.
Once confirmed as fixed, could you close the issue?
Hello, is anyone still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?
Closing pending feedback.
Nothing extracted yet.
As the title says, chat does not have a tab on the taskbar. I can manually open a chat, click a notification, any of that, and a tab on the taskbar does not appear. Otherwise, chat works fine.
Steam, friends, and other windows to appear on the taskbar just fine, however. I have tried setting each chat to open in a new window, though that did nothing as well.
After googling, I found a few similar bugs, though they weren't quite the same.
Screenshot of the issue. I have the main steam window minimized, and a chat window open, so there should be two tabs on the taskbar.
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Fresh install of Linux Mint 18.3 beta - x64
Default WM (Cinnamon 2.8.6)
Ok, some more info.
I restarted steam, and was messaged by someone. The chat window popped up, and as did a tab.
I then closed the tab and tried to open the chat window manually, no luck.
I received another message, and the tab still didn't appear.
So, it seems that it works for the first message you receive upon opening steam. If I close that window, however, there is no way to get the tab back.