[BUG] Linux client; forum rendering.

[Yujah]

Ever since "the new UI" the Linux client has (on this old Intel-integrated system and a older "radeon" system at least) had issues with GPU-accelerated rendering; frequent long hangs, transparent scrollbar-backgrounds, transparent random parts of screen, ...) which could be foregone simply by disabling GPU-accelerated rendering in the settings were it not for the fact that without it e.g. none of the buttons on a post in these forums -- delete, edit, report, block, award, quote-reply -- work at all.

Hardware-accelerated rendering is undoubtedly a pain to do anything about on the mess that is "general Linux" but software-rendering should supposedly not so much be. Unfortunately though its bugs currently disallow it being used.

[Xautos]

the only problem i got is that the steam web broswer turns into a black screen if i alt-tab or something of the like and often i have no way to recover the window from that so i have to log out and back in, i've done it a few times the last few months.

[Yzal]

I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS), with gpu accel disabled and the buttons on the forums work perfectly fine.

[Yujah]

FWIW I've been having the same described issues on an Ubuntu, a Debian and an Arch base. The (with GPU-accelerated rendering) transparent scrollbar-backgrounds may be an Xfce thing and something I've now lived with for half a year, due to as described not being able to use software rendering. Getting a bit tired of it.

The most annoying thing is fairly frequent 20/30-second hangs on some right-clicks and/or copy-pastes. Rather disturbs train of thought when composing a message/reply. Yes, some black-screen and/or transparent parts of the screen, ...

As said perfectly willing to have "general Linux" take the blame for most of that but then at least let me have software-rendering. It's a mess.

[Yujah]

Just typed the reply linked below on an Ubuntu 22.04 (-base) system with old Radeon HD5850 ("radeon" driver) and am verifying that indeed I can't without hardware-rendering enabled Steam-sides "edit" or "delete" that post. Same for old Intel-integrated -- and although I don't right now have something more modern to test with at hand, what with software-rendering being supposedly not about hardware, I'd assume that'd make this Linux-client generic.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4030224579612948772/?tscn=1704491563#c4030224579615877426

[Yujah]

Additional data point: the post buttons do work with software-rendering on an Ubuntu 20.04 (i.e., not 22.04) -base system.

In all cases by the way speaking of the repository versions of the Steam client (-downloader; i.e., grabs Steam from steampowered.com on first run) and not the flatpak.