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All Non-Default Skins have Identical Visual and Functional Errors

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7088 · opened 2020-05-06 by ghost · updated 2020-05-06 · 0 comments · github
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Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 27th April, 2020 at 21:53:32
  • Distribution: Gentoo Linux, primarily using the i3 window-manager; Linux Mint using the default W.M. (Cinnamon)
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

All non-default Steam skins suffer from the following behavioural traits on my Linux machine, running Gentoo Linux across many different window-managers:

  • The top bar is heavily obfuscated [1];
  • Many of the pages, such as the Games and Collections Libraries, refuse to load. No error is sent to a console buffer, and a blank page is shown indefinitely [2];
  • The embedded browser, dialog boxes, and Downloads page behave perfectly with no apparent issues.

I have also confirmed that this bug effects Linux Mint with the default Cinnamon window-manager. Although I cannot confirm its impact on Ubuntu, its occurrence on Mint gives me high confidence that the misbehaviour is distro- and window-manager-independent. Given that this concerns community-created content, I would not normally report this to Valve, however its occurrence with every skin across multiple distributions and window-managers leads me to the impression that a bug exists in the skinning A.P.I.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Load any community-created skin;
  2. Notice the visual and functional glitches seen in [1] and [2] respectively.

[1] The obscured top bar; the positioning, identified with a red rectangle, and the nature of the error is present in all non-default skins: https://i.imgur.com/MoM3DgC.png
[2] The blank page which displays indefinitely when selecting the Library: https://i.imgur.com/eOXMhEX.png

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