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furycd001

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Registered: 2021-07-14

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[SOLVED] Steam Status tray icon no longer working....

HI Guys..

A few days ago the status tray icon for steam stopped working on my system. Whenever I open steam the icon appears within the status tray, but when I click it nothing happens. Usually whenever I click the icon a menu would pop-up, but that no longer happens. I'm running XFCE on kernel Linux 5.17.5, with a fully up-to-date system. For steam I have both steam-native-runtime & steam installed. Here is my steam app info & the output for launching steam from terminal. Many thanks in advanced for replying & or helping....

Last edited by furycd001 (2022-05-03 07:25:13)

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furycd001

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Registered: 2021-07-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Status tray icon no longer working....

After running an update with pacman, I was asked if I wanted to replace sdl with community/sdl12-compat. Probably unrelated to my problem, but I said yes & the problem is still present....

Last edited by furycd001 (2022-05-01 20:30:10)

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stanczew

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Registered: 2021-03-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Status tray icon no longer working....

Sounds like a known lib32 issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274220
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … skbar_menu

However you said you have steam-native-runtime installed, which should pull all necessary dependencies…
Does it happen in both steam-native and steam-runtime?

furycd001

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Status tray icon no longer working....

Okay so I tried both and it works with steam-native, but not steam-runtime..

Just so that you know.. I launch steam through the favorites section of whisker menu and the icon was set to launch steam-runtime. I have now changed this to be steam-native. Can confirm that the status tray icon is working once again, just so long as i do not launch steam-runtime....

Last edited by furycd001 (2022-05-03 06:16:25)

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stanczew

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam Status tray icon no longer working....

If you were using steam-runtime executable, then you probably didn't need steam-native-runtime package installed. So, other option would be to uninstall steam-native-runtime package and keep using steam-runtime binary (and just make sure you have those lib32 packages talked about in the thread). I think steam-runtime is the only one officially supported by Valve, so it might be worth trying this approach.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … ve_runtime

Last edited by stanczew (2022-05-03 09:32:01)