Steam UI does not launch after installation via Omarchy Menu (Omarchy v2.1.0)

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I installed Steam via Omarchy Menu (Super + Alt + Space) > Install > Gaming > Steam, but when I launch it, the user interface doesn’t appear. I am running Omarchy v2.1.0 on a Thinkpad T430s.

[joelabreurojas]

Hello, I had the same issue & hope this can help you.

My Log

~ ❯ steam
steam.sh[6659]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[6659]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6697]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[6659]: warning: SDL_VIDEODRIVER='wayland' does not allow fallback, use 'wayland,x11' instead
steam.sh[6659]: Log already open
steam.sh[6659]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
Steam is already running, exiting (command line was forwarded).

Steam (and many games) still rely heavily on XWayland. The log suggests changing this to wayland,x11 to allow a fallback if the native Wayland driver fails.

Tweak time

# Kill the process
pkill -9 steam

# Add the suggestion to your user environment config:
echo "env = SDL_VIDEODRIVER,wayland,x11" > ~/.config/hypr/envs.conf

# Refresh your environment
env -u SDL_VIDEODRIVER steam

I would recommend to run steam via terminal to check the new log.

[mbonikev]

I installed Steam via Omarchy Menu (Super + Alt + Space) > Install > Gaming > Steam, but when I launch it, the user interface doesn’t appear. I am running Omarchy v2.1.0 on a Thinkpad T430s.

Hi, I don't think it is the OS issue or the device because this is very common for Steam even in Ubuntu it happens, after installing steam it disappears while it is actually downloading extra content in the background, not sure why it does that. but whether you run pkill -9 steam and open steam again the outcome is the same you are still going to download the extra content, what I like to do is to just wait for 5 or 8 minutes and the download is completed and steam should prompt you to log in.

If you want to see the what is happening run pkill -9 steam and open steam again using terminal
If you are okay with the content downloading in the background just wait a couple minutes and it should prompt you to login

Hope this helped :)

[Sven0777]

thanks it was helpful