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Felixanto

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Registered: 2025-05-17

Posts: 2

Steam not launching

I have installed the steam package from the multilib repository, i'm on arch and i'm using hyprland. When I launch steam either from the app launcher (rofi) or from the terminal the steam window doesn't show up and on the terminal it is stuck on

steam.sh[10422]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[10422]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically 

I already tried reinstalling steam multiple times, removing config files and running "steam --reset", looking at running processes there is steam, but the window doesn't show up. I also logged in with plasma environment and the behaviour is pretty much the same which makes me think that this is not caused by hyprland, but i'm not sure; don't know if that's relevant but my gpu is the RX 6650XT.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,515

Re: Steam not launching

xorg-xwayland installed? That's mandatory for the steam client

Felixanto

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Registered: 2025-05-17

Posts: 2

Re: Steam not launching

Yes, it is installed, but after reinstalling the package launching steam didn't get stuck at that point but still it didn't launch. that's why i completely reinstalled steam, launched it and it finally showed the download window, however after that a loop started in which steam tries to remove files in the folder .local/share/steam/ubuntu12_64 and after a few cycles a window appears stating that steamwebhelper is not responding. From there i couldn't do anything else; tried restarting steam with hardware acceleration, restarting steamwebhelper, which are the options showed on this window, but it is stuck trying to delete these files.