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darkhog

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Registered: 2026-01-29

Posts: 2

Steam only starts sometimes on XFCE (heisenbug)

Hello, I'm writing this from openSuSE Tumbleweed. This is XFCE-specific as Steam works just fine on other DEs and even basic window managers such as IceWM. But on XFCE it only loads sometimes (more often it doesn't than does). I've installed Steam from the openSuSE Tumbleweed repo (non-oss).

I'm at my wit's end troubleshooting this. And yes, tried "common wisdom" including running "steam --reset" but it seems that --reset argument does nothing and just tries to launch Steam as normal. Does anyone else deals with such issues? Note, Steam doesn't start from terminal either.

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 896

Re: Steam only starts sometimes on XFCE (heisenbug)

I know nothing about steam. Is there anything in the logs or journal? xsession-errors? Does steam keep logs?

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darkhog

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Registered: 2026-01-29

Posts: 2

Re: Steam only starts sometimes on XFCE (heisenbug)

Right, sorry, forgot to paste the logs. Here they are: https://mega.nz/file/uR1GiL6J#eWRwfD5zW … jEmH2OcTxk