Framework Laptop 16
Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics × 8

I keep trying to restart Steam, and I keep getting this. Strangely, the first time I tried to record what was happening, it successfully opened on that occasion, but I couldn’t get it to work again. I lowered the resolution to record.

Update: Strangely, it works consistently when using the desktop shortcut, but consistently fails when using the menu shortcut.

    • s12@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 month ago

      Doesn’t look like it.

      Name              Application ID             Version Branch       Installation
Lutris            net.lutris.Lutris          0.5.18  stable       system
Mesa              …sktop.Platform.GL.default 25.0.3  23.08        system
Mesa (Extra)      …sktop.Platform.GL.default 25.0.3  23.08-extra  system
Mesa              …top.Platform.GL32.default 25.0.3  23.08        system
FFmpeg extension… …ktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full         23.08        system
i386              …Platform.ffmpeg_full.i386         23.08        system
openh264          …desktop.Platform.openh264 2.4.1   2.4.1        system
GNOME Applicatio… org.gnome.Platform                 46           system
i386              …nome.Platform.Compat.i386         46           system
Mint-Y-Blue Gtk … …gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Blue         3.22         system
DXVK              org.winehq.Wine.DLLs.dxvk  2.4.1   stable-23.08 system
Gecko             org.winehq.Wine.gecko              stable-23.08 system
Mono              org.winehq.Wine.mono               stable-23.08 system
s@S-Framework:~$
        • s12@sopuli.xyzOP
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          1 month ago

          It seems the bad one has Exec=sh -c 'STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam %U', while the good one has Exec=/usr/bin/steam %U.

          I guess I just sudo edit the bad .desktop file? I’ll see if that works.

          Update: Changing the Exec line to Exec=/usr/bin/steam %U didn’t work.

            • s12@sopuli.xyzOP
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              1 month ago

              That’s from the command that doesn’t work. Simply typing steam into a terminal seems to work fine.

              • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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                1 month ago

                According to this, that force close directive just minimizes to tray. So is Steam actually running properly just minimizes to tray when the interface disappears?

                • s12@sopuli.xyzOP
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                  1 month ago

                  Yes. But then Store, Library, etc. doesn’t do anything.

                  It’s not running properly. A window keeps flickering in and out and I can’t get the interface, unless I launch it in any other way as mentioned.

  • randomwords@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I am having this exact same problem with my laptop with an AMD dgpu, but it only happens when telling the launcher to use the dedicated graphics card. Looks like one of your launchers have this setting

    Still trying to figure out how to tell if stream games are actually using the dgpu.