Steam: embeddedd browser not working with latest update

[tgharib]

Describe the bug

Steam's in-app web browser no longer works with the latest Steam update (September 10).

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable steam using the option programs.steam.enable = true;
2. Launch steam

Note: you might have to manually force Steam to check for updates, to get the latest build.

Potentially related issue: ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7935

Expected behavior

To be able to use the in-app web browser.

Screenshots

https://i.imgur.com/nOXpR21.png

Notify maintainers

@jagajaga @jonringer

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.62, NixOS, 21.11 (Porcupine)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.4pre20210802_47e96bb`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-21.11pre308541.6fc5211eddd"`
 - channels(owner): `""`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

Maintainer information:

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[danyeet]

Can replicate it, this issue was present before with the beta. I thought it was going to be fixed (thought this was a bug on steam end, there is even a nixos mention in the changelog though it's for something else).

[benneti]

just wanted to also link this bug report here as I think it is the same problem: ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#462

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fix-steam-black-library-store/14965/4

[smcv]

Yes, this is the same as ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#462. ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#462 (comment) has some suggestions for things the NixOS packaging can do to resolve this.

As with the SteamLinuxRuntime compatibility saga, we are not deliberately breaking NixOS, but NixOS is so unusual that changes made to fix other distributions are relatively likely to break it.

[YellowOnion]

(steam.override {
      extraPkgs = pkgs: with pkgs; [ pango harfbuzz libthai ];
    })

Put this in your environment to work around the issue.

[uniquepointer]

@YellowOnion thank you so much, was about to ask for a workaround!

[smcv]

If a workaround is as simple as that, then that hopefully points the maintainers of the NixOS package for Steam towards a real solution.

[fx-chun]

This doesn't fix it for me with or without the Steam client beta. I'm on unstable/gnome/wayland.

This fixes it for me; are you using programs.steam.enable ? You'll have to override the package with nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides I think.

[pinkisemils]

Oh, it was just a snafoo on my end. The fix does just work!

[jonringer]

likely what is going on is that it's picking up the nixpkgs's libpango, which is linked against libthai and harfbuzz.