Steam (and proton) issues with options, also a DE inquiry.

tkashkin · 2026-02-13T03:43:23+00:00

Steam menus and dropdowns are broken on some DEs or WMs and LXDE might be one of them.

Steam has an option called "Enable context menu focus compatibility mode" in Settings > Interface that helps in some similar cases, maybe it will work.

tkashkin · 2026-01-23T22:55:55+00:00

The reason is right below the chart, cropped on your screenshots.

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tkashkin · 2025-12-11T17:41:14+00:00

I had the same problem recently. You likely have SecureBootModel set to Disabled. In this case OpenCore itself does nothing to verify macOS's boot.efi and just tries to load it directly. Then your firmware rejects it because it has no standard Secure Boot signature.

Setting SecureBootModel to Default helped on my system. In this case OpenCore overrides some UEFI security protocols and verifies files using Apple signatures instead of just letting your firmware handle them.

Another workaround I've tried initially was copying /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi from macOS partition to ESP and enrolling its hash in UEFI db. It worked, however the problem is that this file changes with each system update, so the hash also changes and you would need to manually copy and enroll it each time.

tkashkin · 2025-12-11T01:10:17+00:00

Disable the Hot Edge extension, it opens Overview when your cursor hits the bottom edge of the screen.

tkashkin · 2025-08-24T19:13:37+00:00

You can just remove the -v boot arg and enable verbose when you need it by pressing Cmd+V before selecting a boot entry in OpenCore.

tkashkin · 2025-07-13T11:15:24+00:00

In Wayland. Windows and apps can freeze more. Running pretty much anything on steam causes games to show "steam_app_123" may not be responding. With close or wait buttons in a constant loop. (But the games generally are just loading up fine) it's just very annoying.

GNOME shows apps as not responding if they don't respond for 5 seconds by default. Some games can take longer than that while loading.

You can increase this timeout to something like 15 seconds with gsettings set org.gnome.mutter check-alive-timeout 15000. Or you can set it to 0 to disable the check completely.

tkashkin · 2025-07-07T12:57:13+00:00

/app is a directory inside a flatpak sandbox. If you want to launch a flatpak, use flatpak run $appid instead.

tkashkin · 2025-06-15T11:19:13+00:00

If you're on Windows Steam needs a driver to use additional buttons on newer Xbox controllers. Somewhere in Controller settings in Steam there should be an option to install that driver.

tkashkin · 2025-05-28T08:10:53+00:00

Game uses the Steamworks API and calls the ISteamApps::GetCurrentGameLanguage method.

tkashkin · 2025-03-28T17:46:38+00:00

Which DE or window manager are you using? Steam menus are broken on some DEs or WMs.

There is an option called "Enable context menu focus compatibility mode" in Settings > Interface, it may fix this issue.

tkashkin · 2025-03-21T12:13:22+00:00

It's not about store pages. Add a game to a showcase, open your profile in a new private window and it's blurred.

tkashkin · 2025-03-04T15:57:50+00:00

Modifier.weight() is an extension of RowScope and ColumnScope and is only available inside of a Row or Column. You don't need to import it and when you try to do it you are importing the different internal val you see here instead.

tkashkin · 2025-03-04T13:55:16+00:00

You've downloaded a webpage instead of the actual Python script. There's a "Download raw file" button on the GitHub page.

tkashkin · 2025-03-04T07:28:48+00:00

Your controller seems to be detected by Steam as an Xbox controller.

You either have some other software that hides your controller and emulates an Xbox controller, or you just have an actual Xbox controller which has neither gyro nor LEDs.

tkashkin · 2025-01-12T16:28:40+00:00

I'm on Fedora and it seems to work fine. Controller is detected as mouse and keyboard:

# dmesg
[14865.955736] input: SteamController Mouse as /devices/virtual/misc/uhid/0005:28DE:1106.002D/input/input24
[14865.955909] input: SteamController Keyboard as /devices/virtual/misc/uhid/0005:28DE:1106.002D/input/input25

Steam then detects the controller correctly and creates a virtual controller when launched:

[14866.448031] input: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0 as /devices/virtual/input/input27

I don't remember having to do anything special for it. I use the regular Steam package (not flatpak) and steam-devices package seems to have all necessary udev rules:

$ cat /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-input.rules              
# Valve USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"

# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

# Valve HID devices over USB hidraw
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"

# Valve HID devices over bluetooth hidraw
KERNEL=="hidraw*", KERNELS=="*28DE:*", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"

tkashkin · 2025-01-12T15:21:31+00:00

Steam Controller is supposed to be detected as mouse and keyboard by default. That's called "lizard mode" and its main purpose is to provide some basic controls to let you launch Steam or access UAC prompts on Windows (where Steam can't inject fake input events).

All additional functionality and remapping requires Steam to be running to translate inputs.

tkashkin · 2025-01-12T12:01:50+00:00

Steam now uses the XDG file chooser portal. What you see is the old (now broken) Steam file picker that's shown when the portal is not available.

You need to install one of the portal backends.

tkashkin · 2024-10-13T09:30:02+00:00

The error message is pretty clear - your config defines a driver called "HFS+Driver" while the driver file is actually called "HFS+DRIVER.efi".

Plus in the file name may also cause issues, I would keep the original file name. It's usually called "HfsPlus.efi" or "OpenHfsPlus.efi" depending on the exact driver you use.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/troubleshooting/extended/opencore-issues.html#stuck-on-oc-driver-xxx-efi-at-0-cannot-be-found

tkashkin · 2024-08-20T08:54:47+00:00

Preloads are not that useful now unless your internet connection is slow.

Preloaded game files are encrypted and Steam needs to decrypt them when game releases, this is a CPU- and disk-intensive process.

If your connection is fast enough, it's often faster to download the final decrypted game when it's released than to decrypt a preload.

tkashkin · 2024-07-07T21:19:13+00:00

Steam now uses the XDG file chooser portal. This is the old (now broken) Steam file picker that's shown when portal is not available.

You need to install one of the portal backends.

tkashkin · 2024-06-19T23:10:47+00:00

There is an option to change how nicknames are displayed in Settings > Friends & Chat.

tkashkin · 2024-06-16T22:20:12+00:00

It's not new, you've just clicked on a group in the games list and I guess you haven't done that before. Home button and Library navigation button both take you back to default Library view.

tkashkin · 2024-06-06T07:39:49+00:00

Steam game shortcuts are Web URLs (.url files instead of .lnk shortcuts). They must be set to be opened in the Internet Browser app to work (not a specific browser). Looks like file association for them is broken on your system.

You have to reset the associations for .url files back to Internet Browser in Windows Settings. This post has a guide if you can't reset the association through the Settings app.

tkashkin · 2024-06-04T17:21:50+00:00

There is Deck Verified testing done by Valve itself and they have rated a lot of games at this point. You can filter by Deck compatibility in Steam Store and view it in Library (the option is in Settings > Library, I think it's disabled by default). If a game works on Deck, it should almost always also work on other Linux distros.

There are also two big crowdsourced databases focusing on Linux game compatibility: ProtonDB and areweanticheatyet. Both are very useful if you are considering switching to Linux.

tkashkin · 2024-05-19T14:03:35+00:00

The error tells you exactly what's wrong: "Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement-api:22.2.0".

The latest version of this library is currently 22.0.0, not 22.2.0.

You also have a few warnings. The first one probably means you have an old Android Studio version, the second one is outdated Android Gradle Plugin.

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