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sumthingranedum

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Registered: 2023-11-28

Posts: 10

SteamVR requires superuser access to finish setup.

I just installed steam for the first time, and my games work fine, but whenever I try to launch Steam VR, it says "SteamVR requires superuser access to finish setup." I am trying to use a Valve Index if it matters. Let me know if you need any more information from me.

Thanks.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,649

Re: SteamVR requires superuser access to finish setup.

You have followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtua … _/_SteamVR ?

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gaberiel

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Registered: 2025-04-02

Posts: 1

Re: SteamVR requires superuser access to finish setup.

run this command to fix

sudo setcap CAP_SYS_NICE=eip ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor-launcher

the popup in question is caused by the shell script located at

~/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrsetup.sh

which wants to set this capability with pkexec, I'm assuming pkexec does not have a gui installed by default so it fails on a distro like arch