Steam GUI just brings up a black screen

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#1

Hi all!

I’m having issues bringing up my Steam GUI that came preinstalled on my Manjaro XFCE. It has been working fine, but ever since the latest update, Steam has only brought me a black screen whenever I open it. Right now I can simply right click on the steam icon in my panel and open up my most recently played games, but otherwise I have no way of running my games or browsing my online library!

Should I just reinstall Steam? Anyone else having this issue?

Any ideas on how to resolve this would be welcome, and thanks always Manjaro Community!

#2

ALWAYS check the update page before updating. ALWAYS.

The answer is in there. Under “Known issues and solutions” in the latest update.

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#3

You can run Steam from terminal using this command, avoiding downgrade freetype2.11 or change Steam to the beta branch:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libharfbuzz.so steam

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#4

DIdn’t know about this page, thank you!

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#6

I run Steam beta for several years now and I just got the issue after Steam auto-update :frowning: Why the solution to use Steam beta isn’t working?

UPDATE: The issue is gone after I went back to non-beta version… WTF? Anyway, for now the issue is gone.

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