I’m using Arch currently and the following issues have been present on every install of Steam I’ve had:
- Controller inputs break constantly. If I use big picture mode, the games will be in some quasi state where it both detects my controller and doesn’t.
- The menus take like 3 seconds to open.
- The right click menu in the system tray does not work 30% of the time.
- Worst of all, when I close a game, steam will not detect that it closes. Once this happens, no other page will load, no menus will open, and i have to
killall steam -s SIGKILL, since no other signal works. It’s also survived SIGKILL multiple times. How? - In game, the shift+tab menu does not work; half the buttons are unresponsive and the game will crash upon closing shift+tab
The arch wiki had nothing on this.
Flatpak and native installs have the same problem, reinstallation does nothing, steam --reset does nothing.
These issues occur across multiple games with different engines.
It’s very strange since I have a very generic system and most people seem to have great experiences.
I had all those issues on arch for a while, but recent (this week) update indeed seems to bork something even more. Not sure if it was steam update or arch os update, but currently steam window have 50/50 chance to become laggy af and unresponsive. Basically making it unusable. Closing to tray and opening again can fix it with same 50/50 chance.
Have no clue how to fix it. Check their github, maybe someone already reported a bug.