Steam launches then crashes when not launched from terminal

Title says it all, Whenever I launch Steam (flatpak or from bazzite-arch container) after sign-in the steam window appears black, closes and reopens forever. If I launch with a terminal by entering the container and running steam, I'm on AMD/AMD games also seem kind of unstable, as well as firefox crashes a lot too. unsure if this is connected or not, but wasn't really happening when I was on ublue/kinoite, I've tried 2 fresh installs of Bazzite too, and this happens all out of the box.
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termdisc
termdisc14mo ago
I use Bazzite-GNOME on AMD/AMD with flatpak Steam and Firefox, and I don't experience any crashes like you're describing
Bartley
Bartley14mo ago
This happens to me with the standard silverblue-main and silverblue-asus images. I just wrote a new desktop file. AMD/AMD here as well. Flatpak as well.
termdisc
termdisc14mo ago
a new desktop file with what changed?
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
I noticed less crashing when don't mount my btrfs nvme drive with my games on it though.
Bartley
Bartley14mo ago
Oh I just wrote a new one that executes flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam It doesn't even have an icon
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
Lol, yeah that's one way to handle it.
termdisc
termdisc14mo ago
all of my games are on a secondary btrfs SATA SSD for me
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
termdisc, Do you still get the black screen openeing? or you're all hunky dory on bazzite gnome? And yeah, may be something is not proper with my drive or something
termdisc
termdisc14mo ago
I don't have a black screen opening Steam
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
Maybe I'll give bazzite gnome a shot then see if it's just that image
tryhardsoccermomswag
it's steam not supporting hybrid graphics properly recently Assuming you have 2 GPUs
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
I do actually but it's not actually hooked up to any monitors. I'll see If I can disable it from the bios level Weird though it worked fine in the past
tryhardsoccermomswag
yeah it's new holdon you dont have to do taht you need to the edit the .desktop file https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1087140957096517672/1157501443327131680 here's the fix i think tonight im editing the FAQ to reflect this even if it's not exclusive to Bazzite i forget exactly where you put that in the line but yeah this is so annoying new steam issue. you can find it on their github issues page like 3 different times annoying
Tetrodotoxin
TetrodotoxinOP14mo ago
Oh wow, thanks sorry I really tried searching google and here for this issue
tryhardsoccermomswag
oh no i meant the issue from steam is annoying idk what they broke recently but it's just a bunch of headaches for everyone, including me, who has 2 GPUs
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