Steam internal web browser issues [SOLVED]

[Illiander]

So, I just did a nice full update, and when I go to run steam, the friends window fails to show. And the store, and the news.

A long search leads me to the archwiki page, and the following command:

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LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0" steam

Which works from the terminal, but not from the launcher shortcut.

But that destroys the text in some games.

Currently I'm running with:

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/usr/bin/steam %U -no-browser

Which just turns the browser off completely. Which gives me the friends window back, at least.

[Hossie]

Hi,

https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay/i ... -490614171

When dconf is installed, we set GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf via a file in /etc/env.d/, so that GSettings of glib/gtk apps using it would actually be saved across application runs.
Because Steam doesn't reset that to unset or "memory", nor provide its own dconf backend in its module path (if it even sets up its own via appropriate env var), the one from /usr/lib/gio/modules/ gets loaded as per GSETTINGS_BACKEND setting, but it uses symbols from newer glib, while steam runtime provides too old and incompatible glib/gio version. Thus the symbol lookup errors when dconf is installed on system (as it almost always should be for desktop systems).

Steam should handle the GSETTINGS_BACKEND env var, set GIO_MODULE_DIR env var to its own gio/modules path, or ship a newer glib.
My suggested workaround (while keeping use of steam runtime) is to run steam as GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory steam. Setting this globally is a bad idea, however, I'm talking about for steam launch only.

This appears to be a reoccurring problem. I remember needing GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory years ago as well for different reasons, until that problem went away long time ago (probably glib got upgraded in steam runtime)

You can set the variable in /usr/bin/steam.

[Hu]

You can set the variable in /usr/bin/steam.

Do you have a patch (suitable for use in /etc/portage/patches) for this? If the OP edits the file directly, then the edit will be lost on the next reinstall of Steam. It might be better to make a wrapper for Steam that sets the environment correctly, then executes /usr/bin/steam with the modified environment.

[rommel]

starting steam from terminal with 'GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory steam' fixes the web display issues here.

[Illiander]

setting memory directly in a MATE launcher didn't work, but putting together a script with it does.

Thank you all

[rommel]

setting memory directly in a MATE launcher didn't work, but putting together a script with it does.

Thank you all

so adding to /usr/bin/steam a line

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export GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory

doesnt work with mate? i am running gnome and systemd but i would not think that should matter. obviously this is going to get nuked upon an update that replaces the bin file but it does work here, either from the terminal or from editing the bin file.