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SteamGame

Bakkeby edited this page Feb 27, 2024 · 3 revisions

The SteamGame flag is specifically named so to work around issues that affect Steam games in a non-gnome environment.

The flag is set by default for Steam games if the class hint contains "steam_app_" or if the window has a "STEAM_GAME" property referring to the steam app ID.

There is currently only one feature that the flag provides - and that is to set the client state to NormalState whenever the window receives focus.

This is a workaround for games having a black window if you switch to another tag and back while being in-game. Reportedly this does not work for every situation, however.

Similar issues have been reported for other game platforms, so the flag may be subject to a rename at some point to make it more generic.

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