Strange... I tried to reproduce the issue again just now and got a different, but still broken, result: enter, backspace, arrow key, tab etc input - non-character keys, basically - work fine. For character keys (alphanumeric + special characters like brackets, punctuation) only every other input event is handled correctly. So when I type "testing" into the Notes window, I see "tsig".

I get the same result running in X11, so my suspicion that it was a Wayland issue has proven incorrect.

There's nothing custom or unique about my keyboard or system input stack, as far as I can tell - no other application (system management, file management, games, 2D and 3D art tools, text editor, various small game development tools) on my system exhibits any issue.

Happy to investigate further and provide additional information as needed.

I have the same problems on fedora 37 gnome.

I'm experiencing the same on fedora 38, gnome, wayland. So The issue is not distro specific. I have steam installed through flatpak, I wonder if it's a flatpak specific issue.

I'm experiencing the same on fedora 38, gnome, wayland. So The issue is not distro specific. I have steam installed through flatpak, I wonder if it's a flatpak specific issue.

I'm not using the flatpak version of Steam, for what it's worth.

Perfect. I also found a similar issue in the ValveSoftware/Proton repo (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6280) where they said it only seems to affect games run through proton and not native games. I found the same is true for me as well.

Perfect. I also found a similar issue in the ValveSoftware/Proton repo (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6280) where they said it only seems to affect games run through proton and not native games. I found the same is true for me as well.

Ah, yes I can confirm this as well... with Portal 2 I can type normally in the overlay. There's a lot more going on in that thread, so it doesn't seem like this issue is simply a duplicate of that one.

I ran into the issue for the first time today playing Doom (2016). Swear I get different bugs every time I use the overlay's web browser. One thing I didn't see mentioned in this thread so far that I experienced whilst the keyboard issues were present was that my cursor seemed to disappear and reappear only whilst hovering over certain elements, like the border of the web browser.

I've got the same issue for Castlevania - Lord Of Shadow: Mirror Of Fate HD (282530) using the new Big Picture Mode. When I try to add a new note to the map, the overlay keyboard is displayed and I'm able to click on the buttons, but nothing is actually written.

Specs:

• O.S: Arch Linux
• Kernel: 6.1.59
• DE: Plasma 5.27.9
• Steam version: 1698777785
• GPU: RX 6700 XT (Mesa 23.2.1)
• Proton: 8.0-4

Picture from the game running in "BigPicture":

Picture from the game running in desktop (working normally):

I have the same issue with Counter Strike 2, Arch Linux, GNOME Wayland, Steam from the Arch multilib repo. So it doesn't appear to be Proton-exclusive; Linux-native games are also affected.

Im unable to type text in the overlay browser or chat, but keyboard shortcuts like ctrl-v (paste) and the Tab key work.

I have more than one keyboard layout enabled but my default is qwerty.

The issue seems to be solved now.
While it was fixed i was running with XMODIFIERS=@im=xim so minecraft doesnt drop inputs
I dropped that environment env var, so it could be that both dropping the env var and steam updating fixed the issue
All keys work as intended now

I discovered that I had XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx set without having fcitx installed. Removing that setting from my envvar.conf led to it falling back to XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus, and I did have ibus installed. Now input works again.

I guess its up to the issue poster to know if this solution works on his computer so it can be closed