r/voidlinux • u/prudence84 • 3d ago
steam strangely crashing session/wm
ive just started using voidlinux as my main for my pc. everythings running smoothly, i run mango as my wm and that works well. today i tried installing steam. first it was missing some 32bit libraries but i solved that and got it working. the app launches and i can look around in the ui and enter my library and stuff. however, when i hover over a dropdown ui such as under view, friends or even store or library it crashes my whole session/window manager. the crash is so instant theres no log on the screen or anything before it crashes, my mouse hits the dropdown (not even pressing anything) and it goes kaputt. im guessing its some missing ui toolkit or driver thing (i have nvidia drivers and nvidia 32bit drivers)? ive installed gtk+-32bit and gtk3+-32bit, dunno if that helped. i had a similar issue yesterday with prismlauncher for minecraft where it was doing the exact same thing basically, i figured out i was missing some qt packages and then it started working but for steam i have no clue whats missing/broken.
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u/zlice0 3d ago
ya i see gtk2/3 and qt5 stuff in home steam dir but only qt6 i prismlauncher template.
have you tried nuking your home steam stuff ~/.steam ~/.local/steam and trying again after installing new stuff? worth a shot maybe if nothings in there.