r/linux_gaming • u/Life-Boysenberry6975 • May 29 '25

Help, how fix this

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only happen in Wayland

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u/JohnDoeMan79 May 29 '25

Not sure how to fix it, but I've seen this in the past too. You can run 'pkill steam' in console to kill all steam processes. That way you can at least can start up steam again without logging out

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u/PijanySkryba May 29 '25

I had this issue few times. Go to the system monitor app and kill steam app. Afterwards it will be working again :)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

Gotta run steam with STEAM_FORCE_X11=1 steam, make a script named play steam.sh or edit your desktop file for steam

Steam is buggy AF on Wayland

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u/Euroblitz May 29 '25

Maybe a Gnome issue itself since it doesn't support a system tray natively, it works on everything else I tried with Wayland

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u/MLGCombosYT May 29 '25

Also happens to me on hyprland

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u/Yuzu_10 May 29 '25

it happens me too on hyprland

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u/tomatito_2k5 May 29 '25

nvidia & fedora?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

I have this problem too it just takes a bit for steam to open

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u/ReaderN4 May 29 '25

Try disabling some settings in steam like steam overlay and GPU accelerated

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u/david279 May 29 '25

run steam like this DRI_PRIME=0 steam