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'Airstrike' Ivanov has Steam for Linux

Nov 18, 2020 @ 3:26pm

System Tray Icon Won't Load

Hey folks! For some reason, the icon in my system tray won't load. It was working just fine yesterday. I tried to purge and reinstall Steam to no effect. Any idea what causes this? It's just appearing like an Internet Explorer 'not found' logo instead. Google results were all from 2017 and didn't help much.

My system tray[i.imgur.com]

Not sure if this is relevant from running Steam in the console:

(steam:7867): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:30:52.092: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' for stock: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

I 100% have gdk-pixbuf and gdk-pixbuf-32bit installed from the Void repository.

(Using Void Linux, nvidia drivers)

Last edited by 'Airstrike' Ivanov; Nov 18, 2020 @ 3:32pm

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Zyro

Nov 19, 2020 @ 12:08am

Well, it clearly says what it's looking for, so find out what you've got installed (bitness and version). I never heard of "Void Linux", so I can't tell you how.

Marlock

Nov 19, 2020 @ 4:24am

a couple things possibly worth looking into:

why would it theme icon for Steam be named "image-missing" in the first place?

maybe the issue is more about not having tray icon image where expected?

have you tried to reinstall Steam? also did it work and then stopped working or did it behave like this as soon as you first installed it?

finally, it looks like Steam called libpixbufloader-png.so and expected this to be 32-bit ("wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64"), but I don't see any error attempting to load a different lib name that woud be the actual 32-bit .so file... either it doesn't even try (which is a bit odd since Steam is a 32-bit app developed for 64-bit distros) or it actually succeeds in contacting the real 32-bit version and the issue lies elsewhere (eg: the image-missing bit of the message)

Last edited by Marlock; Nov 19, 2020 @ 4:25am

'Airstrike' Ivanov has Steam for Linux

Nov 19, 2020 @ 11:02am

I'm 90% sure it ended up being an incompability with an update to one of Void's core packages.

The install was only two days old so I made the jump to Arch and all my problems were solved.

Last edited by 'Airstrike' Ivanov; Nov 19, 2020 @ 11:02am