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zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

Steam not accepting keyboard input.

Awhile back Steam stopped accepting any text from the keyboard. (I can still navigate menus with the keyboard) I've tried uninstalling Steam and deleting all of the Steam config files with no luck. I've also tried recreating the system in a virtual machine, and the issue is not popping up at all. There's always the option of just completely reinstalling the system from scratch; but, I would prefer to avoid that if possible. This impacts games using the keyboard, as well. Does anyone have any idea of where I should look to address this problem? Could this related to the graphics drivers?

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Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

Does it happen with a new user account?

Last edited by Skunky (2019-06-18 17:20:31)

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

Yeah, it happens even with a fresh user account. I just created a new user with:

useradd -m teststeam

and gave it password. Steam pulls in some update files upon launching Steam, and won't, at least, display text input when attempting to login.

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 2,473

Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

Something related to the input focus/window manager?
Try switching your window manager for a while (some light and user friendly wms: openbox, icewm, jvm...)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … w_managers

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zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

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Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

I tried installing gnome-shell, which ships with SteamOS, with the same issue cropping up.

Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

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Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

Which Desktop environment/Window manager you're using?Does the problem persist if you switch DE?

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

I'm using Cinnamon. The problem still persists after switching to GNOME, which steam uses for their Linux distribution.

Last edited by zerophase (2019-06-18 23:28:16)

Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

This may be a bug with steam itself, you could try using beta client and see if things get better

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: Steam not accepting keyboard input.

If using Wayland, try Xorg.
Also, i'd still try to use openbox.

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