(linux PopOS!) my UI is transparent

[Player One]

since the UI update my whole UI is transparent, despite of the secondary popup windows like friends, anouncements etc..

just in case, i tried switching UI scaling in steam options as well as i ensured my graphic settings are set to 100% scaling too. any hints to solve this?

Update: i use the Nvidia 1070 here

[montaropdf]

I also report the same problem on my Ubuntu 22.04 machine. Is there any setting that can be changed in a file to switch off transparency and also to increase the font size, which is ridiculously small, especialy with a 42 in. screen. It seems that the steam cleint does not follow the settings from the Desktop manager, KDE, in my case.

My Graphics card is based on a Nvide RTX 3060 GPU, if it matters.

[Leafman]

Hey, its not just me

Thanks Valve, for once again fixing something that isn't broken thus requiring it to be fixed. They are just bored...

[montaropdf]

With regards to transparency. It seems disabling compositing in the Desktop Manager disable the transparency in steam.

But event changing the font size in KDE control panel does not change the font size in steam :(

[Player One]

thank you. but i dont know of any way to disable compositing on my PopOS! system and i dont want to change to xfce or kde desktops for that reason. while i would be happy about an easy workaround with low impact on my system, i think the problem itself has to be solved at the Valves end..

[montaropdf]

On KDE, in the control panel, search for compositor, there is a check box to activate it at start up.

Beware, I use KDE in french, so the naming is maybe a bit different from my translation.

More generally speaking, I agree that it is something to be fixed by Valve.

[Sorrow]

montaropdf původně napsal:

With regards to transparency. It seems disabling compositing in the Desktop Manager disable the transparency in steam.

But event changing the font size in KDE control panel does not change the font size in steam :(

How do we access the desktop manager with ubuntu?
Thank you beforehand :)

[Player One]

gnome based popos! is not able to deactivate compositing, so far as i know.

[Lime dragon]

I also have this problem. Ubuntu 22.04 kde based distro and GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

[JL]

having the same issue in PopOS with a GTX 1060, I changed the settings for the text scaling according to some googling I did and it did nothing, so I contacted support, hopefully they reply soon-ish.

I also tried going into the beta client to see if maybe they'd fix it in a newer patch/branch, but it did nothing either :(

oh right, changing the hardware acceleration on web view made it even worse as the menu letters became completely invisible, so definitely don't do that

[Fooey]

I'm also having the same issue, with the new Steam Client
Ubuntu 20.04 XFCE,
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (3rd Gen), 64G RAM
Nvidia Gigabyte RTX 3080 TI Gaming OC,
Steam Version: 1686880776
Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Jun 16 11:41 AM UTC +10:00
Steam Web Build Date: Fri, Jun 16 11:10 AM UTC +10:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient020

[waterfly]

hoh

[JL]

update, this is the really uninspiring response support gave me :/

author původně napsal:

Sorry to hear that you're having a trouble with the Steam client.

As much as we would like to help, please note that Steam for Linux is currently only supported on the latest version of 64-bit Ubuntu LTS with Unity, Gnome, or KDE desktops.

If you are running another distribution of Linux, 32-bit Ubuntu, or an older version of Ubuntu we will not be able to provide support. We recommend you install the latest version of 64-bit Ubuntu for the best Steam experience on Linux.

If you wish to attempt to run Steam on a different distribution or version, it's best that you use Github to discuss them with our developers and other Linux users.

You can create a free Github account.

Once signed up and logged in you can visit our Github and post your questions directly to the Linux Community and our developers.

Steam Support
Sven

seems like it's a baked in response for anyone having issues on linux cause it didn't even ask me anything or acknowledge the issue, just assumed it was my fault for having a 32-bit version of Ubuntu or another distro (I didn't even specify the distro, and though I should have, it seemed silly to just assume a 32 bit version or a different distro first instead of someone using the most common distro ever)

[JL]

Alright, found the solution:

based on this (this was known 3 weeks ago and steam still pushed this update...)

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9422

I found this comment:

Disabling FXAA fixes this for me. Looks like it's an issue with NVIDIA's driver's implementation of FXAA with electron apps in general. (I'm not sure I agree it has anything to do with electron apps particularly since discord works fine but who knows)

so disabling FXAA should fix the issue on the nvidia settings

but people might want to keep FXAA on, so I found a solution that only applies on steam (bear with me)

- go to application profiles on your nvidia settings
- click enable application profiles if it wasn't checked yet
- on the rules tab click the + icon to create a new rule
- on the Rule Pattern make sure Process Name (procname) is selected
- then on the Matches this string part write steamwebhelper
- then on the Rule Profile area click new profile (it'll pop up a new window)
- name the profile name wtv you want
- on the dropdown that says custom find GLAllowFXAAUsage and add it
- make sure the Value is set to false then at the bottom right click the + button (it means add)
- same for the first popup
- then back on the original nvidia settings click the save button (in my view it's a downwards pointing arrow)
- restart steam and it should be back to normal

[Player One]

Dude this is great, it works like a charm \o/ many hugs to JL for finding this solution via Github! Thanks a lot

[Szihó]

What an absolute legend. Pat yourself in the back 3 times.

JL původně napsal:

Alright, found the solution:

based on this (this was known 3 weeks ago and steam still pushed this update...)

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9422

I found this comment:

Disabling FXAA fixes this for me. Looks like it's an issue with NVIDIA's driver's implementation of FXAA with electron apps in general. (I'm not sure I agree it has anything to do with electron apps particularly since discord works fine but who knows)

so disabling FXAA should fix the issue on the nvidia settings

but people might want to keep FXAA on, so I found a solution that only applies on steam (bear with me)

- go to application profiles on your nvidia settings
- click enable application profiles if it wasn't checked yet
- on the rules tab click the + icon to create a new rule
- on the Rule Pattern make sure Process Name (procname) is selected
- then on the Matches this string part write steamwebhelper
- then on the Rule Profile area click new profile (it'll pop up a new window)
- name the profile name wtv you want
- on the dropdown that says custom find GLAllowFXAAUsage and add it
- make sure the Value is set to false then at the bottom right click the + button (it means add)
- same for the first popup
- then back on the original nvidia settings click the save button (in my view it's a downwards pointing arrow)
- restart steam and it should be back to normal