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Nexsy

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Registered: 2023-05-27

Posts: 13

Very obscure/weird Flatpak Steam crash on KDE

I don't even know how to begin describing it, recently because of flatpak's sandboxing I decided to use that version of Steam on my Arch machine.
It installed fine and it ran fine the first time.

But after a reboot the flatpak steam just silently crashes after about 10 seconds after launch, running it through terminal gives no information on the crash either, nor the logs steam creates.
What is weird is that the repo version of steam works and launches perfectly fine.
What is even weirder is that if I switch over to my backup DE which is XFCE, the flatpak version of steam launches fine without any issues.
What is even weirder than that is that if I then logout from XFCE, log back into KDE, steam launches normally again.
But it does not launch after a hard reboot.

This happens both from the .desktop application that was automatically created and from terminal "flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam"

I'm very new to forums of this caliber and I am not familiar with its etiquette,  but I don't even know which logs to give, since they are basically identical to the ones I get when I successfully launch it in XFCE.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,269

Re: Very obscure/weird Flatpak Steam crash on KDE

Sometimes steam has problems showing its upgrade dialog and will "silently" upgrade and only start when that finishes. Is this actually actively reproducible or can you just start steam again without the xfce switchover (which I'm assuming is irrelevant)?

Nexsy

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Registered: 2023-05-27

Posts: 13

Re: Very obscure/weird Flatpak Steam crash on KDE

Sometimes steam has problems showing its upgrade dialog and will "silently" upgrade and only start when that finishes. Is this actually actively reproducible or can you just start steam again without the xfce switchover (which I'm assuming is irrelevant)?

Absolutely, even when I run it through terminal after it crashes it it kicks be back to bash. For me to start flatpak steam on KDE I need to first launch it on XFCE and then I can switch. 100% reproducible every time.