A new Steam Client Beta fixes Linux desktop and menu shortcuts, adds pre-compiled GPU shaders for Vulkan

Quoting: cprn

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: loggeThe most annoying thing I find is that you cannot start a "user defined" steam app via command line. I use "roommates" and kicked the bin out, and a link to kodi in... so I am playing "roommates" thousands of hours a year.

By user defined, I mean the "Add program to library" click.

Doesn't "ADD A GAME..."->"Add a Non-Steam Game" do exactly what you want?

It adds the game but there's no command line to tell Steam client to run it. You need GUI.

Ah, I see. I misunderstood the issue then :)

Quoting: linuxjacquesHave the fixed the "remember password" bug yet?

It's been like six months and I've stopped checking.

Here's me again thinking it's on my side lol. Steam sometimes remember my credential, sometimes not and sometimes forgets my entire username, but I also recently had some problems with my filesystem corrupting files, so I thought it was due to that. Glad to know it might not be that, though.

Whenever steam forgets my credentials I just close it and open it again, most of the times it just logs in.


Last edited by BOYSSSSS on 8 November 2017 at 9:51 pm UTC

Quoting: BOYSSSSSWhenever steam forgets my credentials I just close it and open it again, most of the times it just logs in.

What he said.

Also, when it forgets them on the website (Firefox, Chrome, etc. - not the built in client browser), make sure you have this setting checked in the client:
Steam > Settings > Web Browser > Allow desktop Web browsers to automatically log into Steam sites
Then open the accounts details in the client (e.g. click on your balance next to your username in the upper right) and refresh the site in the desktop browser. It'll log you in without extra 2FA hassle.


Last edited by cprn on 8 November 2017 at 10:19 pm UTC

Quoting: Creak

Quoting: AimelaThat's pretty much because the issue doesn't affect everyone, and seems to vary by DE; I encountered the issue while using Cinnamon(and judging by other comments, this will also occur with GNOME), but everything is fine in KDE Plasma. Regardless, I'm pretty sure this is something that Valve needs to fix.

If it's a bug for GNOME and every GNOME related DE, that's pretty much the majority I think.
There's around 50/50 GNOME vs KDE, and the others DEs are mostly derived from GNOME/GTK.

Edit: you can look at the GoL statistics: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics

It isn't just Steam. I currently use two Qt based programs, Quassel and HipChat. Both have to be killed first before Gnome will strt the power off. I hadn't noticed that Steam does it to. But ueah, first click of power off / reset will kill both of them, second tolim reboots / shuts down the system.

Quoting: cprnPersonally I always run Steam in Big Picture, therefore avoid all the fuzz with lack of scaling, but I have to run it in window mode - otherwise it stays on top and full screen games start in the background. I don't run any DE, though, just i3wm.

Ha, there is thebug for me whereit picksa seemingly random monitor, then I launch a game which goes to a different monitor, then when i exit the game, BPM is minimized with Gnome popping up a "Steam is Ready" notification up top.

I was using the stable client, tried this beta out and noticed Spec Ops: The Line would error on launch. Went back to stable so I can finish the game. Not sure what that's about.

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, there is thebug for me whereit picksa seemingly random monitor, then I launch a game which goes to a different monitor, then when i exit the game, BPM is minimized with Gnome popping up a "Steam is Ready" notification up top.

I don't know about the different monitor thing, as I only use one TV, but BPM being minimized in GNOME after exiting a game is a problem I had and I found a fix: https://github.com/tak0kada/gnome-shell-extension-stealmyfocus.git

Quoting: ikey

Quoting: CreakFix fullscreen video? It absolutely does not work here, I got the video in 720p in the corner of the screen and the rest is memory garbage.

Use your distribution SDL2 with the client to resolve the issue (LSI does this automatically.)
You can copy the file over, abuse LD_PRELOAD/LD_LIBRARY_PATH to do this manually. You'll need a very recent
SDL for this to work properly.

This used to work but the latest update broke it. Now Steam requires an SDL function that's missing in my current Debian SDL lib and doesn't start at all with that preload. Probably the system libSDL needs to be updated to unstable 2.0.7 or something. Nevertheless, follow that issue report, Plagman from Valve is on it.

Since the new beta version Saints Row the Third doesn't work anymore :-(. Not on steamos as well as not on my gpd win (ubuntu 17.10).