Hello @monemoc, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?
Issue happens if I manually start dbus session
This sounds like something your OS developers should be setting up for you: on a well-integrated Linux distribution, you shouldn't need to do this yourself. For example, on Debian derivatives, systemd integration that starts a dbus-daemon listening on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus is provided by the dbus-user-session package.
Steam refuses to draw in-window content (store and library content, etc. - pretty much everything, except stuff that is drawn by UI kit, like window frame, STORE, LIBRARY buttons above, settings, etc.) and instead shows black window with loading indicator above the top right corner of that black window.
That sounds like the symptom of a steamwebhelper crash, which means ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/steamwebhelper.log and/or ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt might have useful information. If this issue still happens, please attach those logs as files or share them as a gist.
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam refuses to draw in-window content (store and library content, etc. - pretty much everything, except stuff that is drawn by UI kit, like window frame, STORE, LIBRARY buttons above, settings, etc.) and instead shows black window with loading indicator above the top right corner of that black window.
Issue happens if I manually start dbus session via:
and as soon as I kill that daemon Steam instantly works as intended (window content loads).
I use this daemon for notifications, I would like to use steam without killing it and restarting manually after.
I would really appreciate any workaround.
Steps for reproducing this issue:
dbus-daemon --session --address=unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus