Steam cannot switch to Desktop

[frkd-dev]

Hi,

I encountered a problem with returning to a desktop from gamescope session when I select "Switch to Desktop" in Steam.

Details. I use a CachyOS installation with the default set of packages, including Plasma Desktop and Plasma Login Manager. I manually installed the steam and gamescope-session-cachyos packages. After logging in to Gamescope session, Steam works just fine, but when I select Power > Switch to Desktop, Steam displays "Switching to Desktop" message and after that point it's neither possible to use Steam nor return to a desktop. Some Reddit users experience the same issue.

After looking into journalctl I figured out that /usr/lib/steamos/steam-set-session fails to write config file at this line because in my system /etc/plasmalogin.conf.d folder doesn't exist and script exits with error. This prevents running steam -shutdown in /usr/bin/steamos-session-select which called steam-set-session.

To fix this issue, steam-set-session script shall ensure first that .conf.d directories in /etc do exist before files are written there.

[frkd-dev]

Just for the reference, here is the photo I took from a parallel TTY console while Steam was hanging on another one. I had no other chance to make a screenshot without access to a desktop:

[1Naim]

Hi, thanks for reporting. Indeed I didn't consider this. I think in addition to this, bundling a minimal config for autologin would be ideal, to remove any dependencies for other packages.