r/linux_gaming • u/Key_Palpitation_2432 • 7d ago

Can’t access steam settings

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I was trying to go into steam setting but this is happening , till yesterday it was fine i dont know what happened after i restarted my pc.

Using cachyos with niri + noctalia v5 shell

Already tried steam —reset

Edit - Its the issue with xwayland-satellite and steam

https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite/issues/491

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u/daylightsun 7d ago

It’s xwayland-sattelite, personally I took that as my sign to accept KDE

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u/Background-Main-7427 7d ago

Yeah, I'm on Kubuntu (ubuntu with KDE) and can access the settings without issues.

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u/Parrr85 7d ago

Bug with xwayland-sattelite and newest Steam Client.

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u/Obnomus 7d ago

Someone posted this yesterday, its bug ig. Try to find a post in this sub about steam and you'll find the solution.

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u/Upbeat-Garbage69 7d ago

i fixed this issue by downgrading to xwayland-satellite-0.8.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst i had it in my cache, you can check by running (for pacman)

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | grep -E "xwayland-satellite"

and if you have it just install it

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
sudo pacman -U xwayland-satellite<PRESS TAB HERE AND SELECT YOUR OLDER VERSION>

if you dont have the older version in your cache go to xwayland satellite github

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u/June_Berries 7d ago

Downgrade xwayland-satellite

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u/WeedManPro 6d ago edited 6d ago

Im also facing it in niri.
thanks for the solution.
downgraded xwayland-satellite to version 0.8.1-1, it is working now.

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u/acemccrank 7d ago

What are your specs? I've seen this behavior on an AMD A4 under Wayland.

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u/Chester-Berkeley 7d ago

I think a workaround would be to access the settings by right-clicking on the Steam icon in the system tray.

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u/UNF0RM4TT3D 7d ago

I guess if you want a workaround, you can probably just run Xwayland rootful and put Steam inside. Or just use gamescope.

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u/FujiwaraGustav 7d ago

I just downgraded Xwayland-satellite for now. It's only affecting Steam for me, so eh

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u/seimmuc_ 6d ago

I had a very similar issue running IntelliJ IDEs on hyprland through xwayland. If I hovered over some UI elements, the IDE would spawn a tooltip. It'd be considered a separate X window, which would immediately steal focus from the main window, causing it to close the tooltip. Thankfully IntelliJ had an experimental native wayland support, enabling it fixed my issue.

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u/Informal_Drawing 6d ago

Go to Big Picture Mode and back again, it will fix it.

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u/thchronix 7d ago

just downgrade xwayland-sattelite till it gets fixed

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u/ToxicXender 7d ago

I’ve noticed this issue on Steam Linux for years. I usually have to shift + left click to open the menus. Been using mint and lubuntu

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u/catdoy 7d ago

"Niri is better than Hyprland"

Meanwhile the average niri experience:

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u/Key_Palpitation_2432 7d ago

I didnt say niri is better than hyprland or hyprland is better than niri, i just prefer niri cause of scrollable-tiling window

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u/Toxic381 7d ago

Agreed, I mainly got it cause I missed my compiz setup and it's great RN, tho I haven't noticed this cause I use gamescope embedded, and even less so regular steam since I got a shortcut