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Askannz

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Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 36

[SOLVED]Clicking on Steam tray icon is broken in KDE Plasma

Hello,

Left and right-clicking on the Steam tray icon is broken on my install. Which is rather annoying because there is no way to  bring Steam back up once it is minimized in the tray.

I have already found the fix : I needed install the package lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk2.

The problem is that by default, Steam uses its own version of the library, located in the Steam runtime at .local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4.0.13. For some reason, this version has become incompatible with Plasma.

So as a newbie, my question is, what should I do with this information ? It's my first time resolving this kind of bug.

• Should I report it to the steam package, so that lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk2 would be included in dependencies ?

• Should I report it to KDE ? (I am not 100% sure the bug is specific to KDE by the way, maybe someone with a different DE could confirm it)

• I have found the fix in a closed issue on the Steam-Linux github. Should I re-open this issue ?

Relevant packages versions (system up-to-date, all latest versions):
KDE Plasma 5.13.4
Plasma Framework 5.49.0
Qt 5.11.1

Thanks, and sorry if this thread was more suited for Newbie Corner.

Last edited by Askannz (2018-08-29 07:27:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED]Clicking on Steam tray icon is broken in KDE Plasma

No to all of these, lib32-libappindicator-gtk2 is already a dep of steam-native-runtime which is highly recommended to install to ensure interopability.

Moving to NC

Askannz

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Registered: 2016-10-22

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED]Clicking on Steam tray icon is broken in KDE Plasma

Ah, my bad. Maybe there should be an entry about steam-native-runtime in the Installation section of Steam, instead of Steam/Troubleshooting (where it's hard to find since it's not linked to any particular issue).

Last edited by Askannz (2018-08-29 07:28:19)