Steam icon is broken and huge with gnome-shell

[bbigras]

Describe the bug The steam icon is broken and makes the systray huge.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. install steam system wide (environment.systemPackages)
2. run Steam with gnome

Expected behavior

Screenshots

The flameshot icon will return to the normal size if I close steam.

The Steam icon is the first ugly one on the left.

Additional context Resolution: 1920x1080

Notify maintainers @jagajaga

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.4.39, NixOS, 20.09pre225264.683c68232e9 (Nightingale)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.4
• channels(bbigras): "home-manager, unstable-20.09pre225264.683c68232e9"
• channels(root): "nixos-20.09pre225264.683c68232e9, nixos-hardware"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

Maintainer information:

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[SFrijters]

Not sure if it's the same bug, but my Steam icon is also broken (same placeholder icon as you have in your screenshot, although not huge) with openbox + tint2 (also tried with another tray). Using NixOS with nixpkgs master.

[dtzWill]

My awesomewm setup has had a borked steam icon for some time, as well. Hmm.. does the icon work for any environment, such as KDE perhaps?

[Valodim]

I faced a similar issue with the steam icon in stalonetray, where the icon was displayed correctly, but way too big. I was able to fix it by specifying the "force_icons_size" kludge.

i.e. in home-manager:

  services.stalonetray = {
    enable = true;
    config = {
      icon_size = 16;
      slot_size = 24;
      kludges = "force_icons_size";
    };
  };

Might be a problem of steam not providing a correct icon, rather than the tray program displaying it incorrectly?

[bbigras]

I still have the broken icon but it's small now. I wonder if something changed in the distro or if it's because I changed my config and probably imported some themes.

[bryanasdev000]

+1 from my awesomewm setup, running everything at unstable here.

[jsynacek]

I get the broken icon as well on Xfce4.

[bbigras]

I don't have the broken icon anymore on Gnome and it's the right size. I probably just installed a theme while stealing borrowing stuff from someone else config. I'll try to find which theme did that.

[bbigras]

I tried to remove all my themes but the icon is still working. Maybe there's something cached on my side.

Here's what I use for gnome: https://github.com/bbigras/nix-config/blob/1fab839e92f0170d988fee8c10b9fd9f010cdeda/gnome.nix#L4-L11

The Steam icon also works for sway on my laptop.

[stale[bot]]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[bryanasdev000]

Hmm, still broken here :(

[SeraphyBR]

Same with awesome

[figsoda]

snixembed might be able to fix this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/131361

[bryanasdev000]

snixembed might be able to fix this #131361

It works here :) thanks!

[stale[bot]]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[dixslyf]

My Steam icon is also broken with polybar's tray when launching via rofi. Correct size, but missing icon. Interestingly, running steam from a terminal fixes it. Probably has something to do with how I configure my theming stuff with home-manager? snixembed does make it show properly, but using it makes all tray icons always show (some programs e.g. udiskie can hide their tray icon when certain conditions are met).

[dixslyf]

Related: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/124965#issuecomment-904020549 That workaround fixes the icon in the systray, but breaks the icons in rofi. I'm guessing the root issue is with launchers that use gdk-pixbuf.

[raspher]

Is this still relevant?

[bbigras]

Not for me.