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JustSomeGeek

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Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

If I go to add a new library folder in Steam, I get the filesystem browser showing me the contents of "~/.steam/steam/" but I can't browse outside of that. eg, I can't go up a level, or select the drive root, or anything else. I appear to be in the top level directory as far as Steam shows me.

It doesn't seem to be the same issue as: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … s_as_empty

Fresh install of Arch. LXQt and KDE Plasma produce the same symptom.

Something stupid I have/haven't done?

Thanks!

Last edited by JustSomeGeek (2023-07-19 09:19:51)

Irets

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Registered: 2019-02-01

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

It's broken.

There's a workaround by utilizing steam's "-console" to mount a library path.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … ssues/9797

Last edited by Irets (2023-07-17 06:18:25)

JustSomeGeek

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

It's broken.

There's a workaround by utilizing steam's "-console" to mount a library path.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … ssues/9797

Wow! That's awesome! So good to know it's not my fault, for a change. Thanks! :-)

Last edited by JustSomeGeek (2023-07-17 07:56:38)

RandomRanger

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

Are you using the Flatpak version of steam?

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V1del

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

They recently switched to using portals even without that. You'll want xdg-desktop-portal-gtk for the GTK dialog or xdg-desktop-kde or so for a KDE dialog.

JustSomeGeek

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

Are you using the Flatpak version of steam?

Nope. Standard steam package. Thanks

JustSomeGeek

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

They recently switched to using portals even without that. You'll want xdg-desktop-portal-gtk for the GTK dialog or xdg-desktop-kde or so for a KDE dialog.

I'm not using the flatpak version. Is any of it still applicable? I do have an issue in LXQt where I can't select any of the items from context menus though.

V1del

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

yes all of that is still applicable, as they implemented the portals in steam itself. Other examples of this include the major browsers, i.e. firefox or chromium. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_De … interfaces for a fuller list of available backends.

Last edited by V1del (2023-07-18 23:14:08)

JustSomeGeek

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Re: Steam - Cannot browse for new library folder [SOLVED]

yes all of that is still applicable, as they implemented the portals in steam itself. Other examples of this include the major browsers, i.e. firefox or chromium. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_De … interfaces for a fuller list of available backends.

Great, thanks! All good now! Unless the not being able to select context menu items in LXQt is related to this (works fine in KDE).

Again, thanks a lot! :-)