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[1157220] Nebuchadnezzar, Steam Deck system UI "crashes" after playing

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8631 · opened 2022-06-15 by tesfabpel · updated 2022-06-15 · 0 comments · github
Ttesfabpel 2022-06-15 github

Your system information

Steam Deck

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Current Beta
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): SteamOS
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

After playing with Nebuchadnezzar (1157220) for some minutes, the system UI goes completely black (though I can still hear sounds and interact with Steam with the Steam Deck's buttons) probably because the session compositor crashes or something...
System buttons like STEAM or ... don't work as well...

Also, please note that this affects also GNOME and KDE running in Wayland mode (but I have to check again since I tried there a lot of time ago)...

I suspect the game (or the game's framework which seems to be allegro according to the .so files in the bin) makes XWayland (probably) do something funny to the compositor making it crash (which it shouldn't of course).

NOTE: I reported this bug here because AFAIK the compositor SteamOS uses is made by Valve (and probably GNOME / KDE devs don't have access to the game).

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Play with Nebuchadnezzar

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