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Steam will not run at all, no matter what I do. (22.04 LTS)
I was having this issue. It looks like it's an issue with the desktop launcher file not launching steam correctly due to the system not using the correct GPU on NVIDIA prime systems. I found that ...
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Steam UI not launching after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
Issue seems to be solved now. I changed the graphics from nvidia-510 to nvidia-470 in Software and Updates.
I removed earlier installs:
sudo apt remove steam steam-launcher steam-installer
sudo apt ...
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Fonts app hangs after being opened
Looks like it hangs preparing font previews, maybe some permissions issue.
Open a terminal and start with sudo gnome-font-viewer. Let it process and quit. You can open normally afterwards (with some ...
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Steam UI not launching after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
After my Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade to 22.04, I noticed invoking steam from the launchbar produced only black windows, but worked from the terminal.
I run Nvidia full time (external GPU on a laptop), no ...
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Why is "x86/split lock detection" spamming my syslog when Steam is running?
As you've found out, this is triggered by Steam which uses split locks despite them being discouraged by the kernel. There's a quite recent LWN.net article on this topic: https://lwn.net/Articles/...
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How do I play Wave Rider on Steam?
It seems that there aren't any reports of the game on protonDB. That usually means that no one tried to play it on Linux or that the devs haven't created support for the game in proton. The best thing ...
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High ram consumption on steam games
Just a few we have no influence on: Windows is not Linux. Sub-optimal 3rd party drivers. Open GL. The games you picked are made with Windows in mind and Linux as an afterthought.
Then it is possible ...
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Starting steam on Startup minimized
Add --silent as a parameter to the desktop file for steam.
It will be in one of these:
/usr/share/applications/
/usr/local/share/applications/
~/.local/share/applications/
The last one takes ...
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Fresh install of ubuntu 22.04 and 404 not found error even though there are no PPAs causing these errors
Credits to @FedKad for this answer, he pointed out that I should try to change the server on "Software and Updates", I changed from my local server to the "Main server" and was ...
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Steam two install locations
Okay, so when I did the l command, steam is steam@ and the other one was debian-installation/ After looking into it the @ after the directory means symbolic link, so it seems that they are the same ...
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Steam UI not launching after upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
I too had the same issue after my Ubuntu Upgrade (from 21.10 to 22.04).
And simply uninstall & re-install it form 'Ubuntu Software' resolved this issue for me.
Though i am unaware of the root ...
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Install Vulkan for Steam Proton on GTX 770M
I ran steam with the command line (using steam command) and it gave me additionnal information that led me to find that my PC does not support recent versions of Proton. By running Proton 4, I fixed ...
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Steam will not run at all, no matter what I do. (22.04 LTS)
I also had this problem and changing the default NVIDIA 510 driver to 470 solved the problem.
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Fonts app hangs after being opened
I solved the same problem by installing the font-manager application.
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Steam reports I'm missing libc.so.6 even though I have them installed
I faced with the same issue on my Ubuntu 20.04. I've tried many advices like add remove/reinstall/add-arcitecture etc. But that has no take any effect. You shuold be sure that the libc6 already ...
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Installing 32-bit libnvidia-gl alongside 64-bit version
If you use the Nvidia drivers from the standard (proprietary/restricted) repos., they come with the 64 and 32 bit versions, and all the "glue" code to rebuild the Nvidia module when updates ...
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Steam fonts are very small on Ubuntu 20.04
For anyone stumbling into this in the future.
If you find the default UI too small and GDK_SCALE=2 too big, you can apply a zoom to the steam UI instead for 150%, 125% etc.
Here's how for Ubuntu based ...
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Can't install Steam because of unmet dependencies
for me I went to this link https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/install-steam-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts and downloaded the steam installer it did the trick for after all the methods mentioned above failed ...
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