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Force Quit/Exit Shortcut option in Steam overlay no longer works/is unreliable

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7857 · opened 2021-06-12 by alkazar · updated 2022-02-26 · 1 comments · github
Aalkazar 2021-06-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 11, 2021
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

  1. Add a non-Steam shortcut
  2. Launch the non-Steam shortcut
  3. Press Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam Overlay
  4. Select Force Quit/Exit Shortcut

Actual:
5. Nothing happens or the overlay disappears and cannot be brought back again (overlay crashed?)

Expected:
5. Game exits

Notes:

  • this affects both Desktop mode and Big Picture mode
  • some non-Steam shortcuts seem to exit successfully (needs further investigation, but games that can successfully exit appear to be launched through a shell script)
  • Steam used to run games as children of 'SteamChildMonit', but this seems to no longer be the case, is this an intentional change?
  • A side effect of the above change is that external tools such as https://github.com/gamer-os/steam-buddy can no longer determine which processes to exit to shutdown a game

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Add a non-Steam shortcut
  2. Launch the non-Steam shortcut
  3. Press Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam Overlay
  4. Select Force Quit/Exit Shortcut
Aalkazar 2022-02-26 github

This no longer appears to be an issue.

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