Steam Client becoming unresponsive

[alosarjos]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1674616553
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Since a few days ago (I would like to say the update that removed the option to start Steam without the browser because it was around those dates, but I have never used that feature) the client has become very unresponsive, taking long times to load activity, and while loading it, it just doesn't respond. It's kinda slower and doesn't response to any input until it finished whatever it's loading

I have reduced the amount of installed games and tried clearing the browser cache inside Steam

[kisak-valve]

Hello @alosarjos, can you go to Steam -> Settings -> Interface and note if Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views is enabled or not. If it isn't, then does toggling that on have any effect?

Also, please copy your system information from Steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.

[alosarjos]

It's already enabled, I've also disabled animations for friend list views since I know it causes some issues, but all this is happening without any other window/notification opened.

https://gist.github.com/alosarjos/aae849ae851caa304c52305ebe5df1a1

[alosarjos]

@kisak-valve Not sure if this means something, but my system logs are full of this;

[kisak-valve]

That's a regression in your system, lib32-libx11 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 has problems.

[alosarjos]

Not sure if that's what is causing the issues, I see the package marked as outdated on Arch, hoping it gets updated soon