Steam overlay not starting on wayland

Hello,

when I am in game, and press Shift+Tab, the Steam overlay does not want to open (literally nothing happens). I have the overlay and the shortcut configured in the steam settings.

Any ideas if this can be fixed, or is it just wayland problem that i have to wait out?

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6 Comments

Krompus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It's not a Wayland problem, the new Steam Overlay works fine for me on Sway. Sorry, not sure why you don't have it, maybe a missing dependency or something? What are you running?

Ministar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It seems that now it only does not work in one game (as far as i have tested). The game in question is Warframe. So it seems that its truly not a wayland problem.

Krompus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y

Yeah, the overlay not functioning with individual games is a fairly common problem. You're only experiencing it since the new UI though? Perhaps discuss it in the Proton github issue for Warframe.

Mixel@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y

I personally also use Wayland but my menu works just fine so I have no clue what the problem is sadly

Zenzio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I don't know how to fix your issue. But I can tell you that it works for me in Wayland (Sway). Maybe try and search for your issue paired with your specific desktop environment (KDE? Gnome?).

iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

Lately it crashes some games for me on X11. Did it on the first steam update after the major recent one.