steam chromebook linux black screen

[лгбт активист]

when I start steam, I just get a black screen and a cross to exit please help me
before that, I downloaded steam on a chromebook, but then deleted it and now I want to download it again, but now it doesn’t work

[Marlock]

uninstalling steam doesn't automatically delete the folder holding most of the app resources, login data, caches, etc

you can remove this manually from your linux user home folder (if you know where that is on a chromebook... i have no clue where)

on normal linux this goes in a subfolder to the user home folder

sometimes the subfolder is ".steam" directly under the user home, sometimes this is just a symlink to the correct place

[-- PIY PIY]

marlock can you help me please my screen isnt black its blank but i can still type im on ubuntu

[Marlock]

does alt-tabbing work to get you away from steam's blank screen back to another app?

how about alt+f4 to close the blank window?

i'm hoping it's steam's undecorated window spanning the entire screen that's blank, allowing you to move away, so it might make it easier to figure things out

can you run "steam" via terminal and post the terminal output here?

or this to save the output to a file in your linux home folder instead of to the terminal window...

steam &> ~/logfile.txt