[SOLVED] Steam is invisible

[mild crest]

Hi, I'm new to Linux and I use dwl. I've been trying the whole day to run Steam but I can't figure out why it's invisible.

For information, Steam is running fine and the UI even appears when I pass my cursor over it.

I think it might be a problem with wlroots and Xwayland, but I'm not sure.

[sweet nymph]

Run it like this steam -cef-disable-gpu in the terminal.

[mild crest]

Nothing changes

[sweet nymph]

How about this one steam -cef-disable-gpu-compositing??

[mild crest]

same nothing change

[sweet nymph]

Try LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 steam

[mild crest]

same again sadly

[sweet nymph]

Does this GDK_BACKEND=x11 steam work??

[mild crest]

no it's the same

if you want i can send you the terminal or something like that

[sweet nymph]

Try STEAM_DISABLE_VULKAN=1 steam

[mild crest]

Same has before

[sweet nymph]

Does this xclock work??

[mild crest]

Nope

Do i need to install it

[sweet nymph]

Output of ps aux | grep Xwayland??

[mild crest]

dt 151364 0.0 0.0 6896 4488 pts/0 S+ 15:28 0:00 grep --color=auto Xwayland

[sweet nymph]

Output of which Xwayland??

[mild crest]

/usr/sbin/Xwayland

[sweet nymph]

Run sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/Xwayland /usr/bin/Xwayland and restart Dwl and test Steam again.

[mild crest]

i have an impossibility to create the link because the file already exist

[sweet nymph]

Install Sway to see if the same issue occurs there or if it is just dwl.

[mild crest]

ok

[sweet nymph]

Because dwl is not maintained anymore.

[mild crest]

Oooh so it's not the greatest choice is there any better ones with the same degree of "liberty" ?

[sweet nymph]

You can use Sway or Mango https://mangowm.github.io/

[mild crest]

Work on sway i think i will switch compositor thanks for every advice

[sweet nymph]

Good.

[sweet nymph]

Mango is close to Dwl.

[sweet nymph]

... solved

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