Notice

I've moved to using this Steam AppImage which contains several of the fixes of this script + it also contains the EAC-Glic patch.

https://github.com/ivan-hc/Steam-appimage

By making a directory next to the AppImage with then name of the AppImage + .home you also get rid of the useless dotfiles that Steam puts in $HOME.

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fixsteam

This script fixes multiple issues that the linux version of Steam has.

Fixes these issues:

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5607

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1890

Also launches Steam silently (doesn't steal focus) by default.

USAGE

• Place the script in $HOME/.local/bin
• Make sure $HOME/.local/bin is first in $PATH. Do a echo $PATH to confirm that.
• Lauch the script once thru the terminal, as it will copy and patch the steam.desktop to $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications so that the script is called every time Steam is launched by its .desktop file.

If you don't have $HOME/.local/bin in your PATH and/or it is not FIRST in PATH, add this to your .bash_profile or .zprofile:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

READ THIS

If you get LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file) errors when launching the script from the terminal, that is normal and everything should still work like it should. See here

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Credit and big thanks goes to https://github.com/RunningDroid for the screensaver fix: https://gitlab.com/RunningDroid/misc-scripts/-/blob/master/steam?ref_type=heads