Fix problem with steam

Hello, when i launch steam, the launcher only displays, but steam app doesn't open, then the vivaldi window gets into unfocus for a second then gets to focus, is this a sign?

Just so we have some more information, have you installed steam either as a Deb package or a Flatpak? Also are you running the OS via Xorg or Wayland? If you don't know which you are running, the default is Wayland.

Just wanting some more information before we go any further digging into why it won't boot up.

as a debian package, and im running with wayland.
i remember when before zorin os was in xorg when you first installed it.

Ok. Have you tried running steam from the terminal? And seeing what comes out from that?
Also outside of that, it might be worth the log out, and at the bottom right of the screen there should be a cog, and changing back to Xorg, and trying to open steam using Xorg instead. The change to default Wayland has been causing some issues, so that could be tried as well.

yo, it does work from the terminal but what about the .desktop entry, it just opens the steam startup dialog and then nothing happen,s.

I'm not 100% sure why the desktop entry may not be functioning? Maybe it's pointing somewhere it shouldn't be, but if that were the case then the steam startup dialogue shouldn't pop up at all. What you could do, when you have steam open via the terminal, on its icon on the task bar, right click it and select "pin to taskbar". Then close steam and the terminal, and try opening it from the newly pinned icon in the taskbar.

i did that, but when i enabled terminal to true, it worked. but still what could be the issue without the terminal.

Hmm. I'm not 100% sure to be honest. Steam sometimes has issues which are just obtuse due to steam, but when you say "Enabled terminal to true" where were you enabling that? On the newly pinned icon or the desktop icon?

desktop icon, it may work on the pinned icon, but i don't want the terminal to open everytime i launch steam.

hello? are you responding?

Why not install Steam as Flatpak?

i know but i want to add a custom game and due to flatpaks sandboxing i cannot and also ost of the time it crashes

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dw i reinstalled cuz of a driver problem and now steam deb works fine

and yeah i can use flatseal lol