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Check the targets of the desktop shortcut vs your launcher shortcut and see if there is a difference.
It seems the bad one has
Exec=sh -c 'STEAM_FRAME_FORCE_CLOSE=1 steam %U'
, while the good one hasExec=/usr/bin/steam %U
.I guess I just sudo edit the bad .desktop file? I'll see if that works.
Update: Changing the
Exec
line toExec=/usr/bin/steam %U
didn't work.Update 2: It seems to just change it back.
You left out
sh -c
That's from the command that doesn't work. Simply typing
steam
into a terminal seems to work fine.According to this, that force close directive just minimizes to tray. So is Steam actually running properly just minimizes to tray when the interface disappears?
Yes. But then Store, Library, etc. doesn't do anything.
It's not running properly. A window keeps flickering in and out and I can't get the interface, unless I launch it in any other way as mentioned.
Well if that setting keeps getting changed back in the launcher config, my gut tells me there's a setting in the steam settings that is putting it there perhaps.