Enabling GPU acceleration in web views causes issues with window manager

[MartenKahr]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client Steam Version: 1709168962 Steam Client Build Date: Thu, Feb 29 2:39 AM UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Mon, Feb 26 10:21 PM UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Linux Mint 21.1 Victoria
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
• GPU: AMD RX 5700XT

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

While GPU acceleration in web views is enabled, I observed the following issues:

• Steam client window is forced to be maximised. That is: I could not find a way to resize it to take up less than the entire screen, except for minimizing it entirely from the top right corner.
• System task bar (set to auto-hide when not being used) won't appear when mouse cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the screen.
• System task bar appears when "Windows" key is pressed, but shortcuts and other active applications on the taskbar are unresponsive, as are some (but not all) parts of the menu opened by the key press.
• It is possible to use Alt-Tab to switch to other applications (both Steam games and non-Steam applications), but both system task bar issues persist as long as the main Steam window remains in the background.
• Issues stop immediately when Steam client window is fully minimized into a task-bar item and no longer on the screen, but reappear when the main client window is brought back up.
• Steam windows other than the main client (such as friends list or chat windows) could remain on the screen without causing issues as long as the main window was minimised.

All issues also stopped when disabling the GPU acceleration setting and restarting Steam.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views.
2. Observe issues described above.
3. Disable GPU accelerated rendering in web views.
4. Observe all issues described above no longer taking place.

[MartenKahr]

I was mistaken that disabling GPU acceleration causes issues to stop: restarting Steam after the settings change is what caused the issue to stop. Launching the Steam client again this morning, the issues were back despite having disabled GPU acceleration. Turning the setting back on and restarting through the prompt of the settings menu fixed the issue again, with GPU acceleration enabled.

After restarting through that prompt, the client window is resized to not take up the full screen, and I can press the maximise button in the top right corner to have it take up the full screen. This changes the icon, making it obvious I can take the window off from maximised mode, and issues do not reappear even when the client is maximised.

However, when I completely exit the Steam client (but not when I minimise it, or "close" it and reopen from the tray menu) and launch it again, regardless of whether the main client window is maximised or a smaller window, it restarts in a maximised state and the issues reappear regardless of the state of the GPU acceleration setting. Despite the window being maximised, the middle icon in the top right corner is the maximise icon, not the reduce icon.

[MartenKahr]

After repeatedly closing and launching the Steam client to nail down exact behavior and determine a consistent fix/workaround for the time being, restarting the Steam client via the settings prompt to restart after a restart-requiring change has stopped fixing the issue.

EDIT: A full system reboot restores previous behavior, where the the main client launches with issues at first, but restarting via a settings prompt fixes the issues.

[DariusWolfe]

[Uploading steam-logs.tar.gz…]() I'm experiencing the exact same issue, except that literally nothing I've tried has fixed it. It's minor, but at the same time completely maddening.

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``` Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client Steam Version: 1709846872 Steam Client Build Date: Wed, Mar 6 12:28 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Thu, Mar 7 13:17 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021 System: Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI v: N/A serial: Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI-CF serial: UEFI: American Megatrends v: F12 date: 11/05/2021 CPU: Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1799 high: 3985 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 894 2: 875 3: 3966 4: 2506 5: 1521 6: 1637 7: 800 8: 1168 9: 800 10: 910 11: 2532 12: 3985 bogomips: 88796 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: 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[Ugric]

Im using manjaro and am also getting.

Kernel: 6.7.7-1-MANJARO CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 4.200GHz GPU: AMD Radeon 7800 XT

[MoistHoagie]

I'm experiencing this as well on Mint.

Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic CPU: Intel Core i5-13600K GPU: GeForce RTX 3080

I did find some tips in issue #10587. For me, the only thing that fixed it was setting my taskbar panel to Always show panel. It's not ideal, but at least a workaround for me.

[DariusWolfe]

My taskbar is already set to Always Show, so this definitely hasn't fixed it for me. The issue also happens on my other monitor, that does not have a taskbar, which is where it defaults to. I can move it from this monitor (as it's also where I do almost everything else) only by right-clicking the tab on the taskbar and using the 'Move to the other monitor' option.

[james9001]

I'm also having this issue (first posted about it here https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/issues/1276 but it doesn't seem to be flatpak related - sorry, was the first thing I found related to the problem), copying my original comment:

I've also been having this issue for the last few weeks, with Linux Mint 21.2 and Cinnamon DE, except I'm using the steam:i386 apt package. (Apologies if this isn't the right place to comment this)

Specifically - when I launch Steam, such as by running steam in a terminal, the Steam library/store/etc application acts like its in fullscreen mode, the Maximise button doesn't do anything (the icon shows the single large box, though, so I guess the stuck state isn't "maximised"). I also have 3 monitors and from what I recall over the last few weeks it seems to start on Monitor 3. I can move the fullscreen window to another monitor with the context menu option from the Cinnamon taskbar panel thing. If I move it to Monitor 2, it obscures the taskbar panel which isn't great.

I have found a workaround though: if I toggle "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings (requires restart)" from Steam Settings > Interface, when Steam restarts itself, it acts normally for some reason! I'm not actually using any scaling on my 3x 1440p at 155Hz monitors. Maybe this will help someone else temporarily.

PC info OS: Linux Mint 21.2 DE: Cinnamon 5.8.4 Kernel: 6.1.0-1036-oem CPU: AMD 7800X3D GPU: nVidia GTX 1080 Ti

Steam info Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client Steam Version: 1709846872 Steam Client Build Date: Thu, Mar 7 7:28 AM UTC +10:00 Steam Web Build Date: Fri, Mar 8 8:17 AM UTC +10:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021

[jaxwilko]

+1 same issue on Debian Sid.

PC info OS: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid x86_64 Kernel: 6.6.15-amd64 CPU: Intel i9-9900K GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A DE: GNOME 44.9 WM: Mutter

Steam info Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update Steam Version: 1711734008 Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Mar 29 17:09 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Fri, Mar 29 16:33 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021

I tried @james9001's suggestion with Scale text and icons... and it crashed my whole DE so I've now had to write this twice :)

[jaxwilko]

After Steam Beta update the problem seems to be solved.

Steam info Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update Steam Version: 1712795774 Steam Client Build Date: Thu, Apr 11 01:17 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Wed, Apr 10 21:20 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021

[DariusWolfe]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it definitely did NOT fix it for me. Even toggling the various settings that others have suggested has no effect, even with the Beta opt-in.

[sockeye76]

Would just like to add that I am also experiencing this issue. Have had Steam installed for quite a while and used it regularly every day without this happening, but today I did something I never usually do which is open a video of a game trailer from a game on the Steam Store in fullscreen mode and doing this is what caused the issue to start for me. It was super annoying and persisted between reboots.

I am running Pop!_OS 22.04 (GNOME-based desktop environment on this version) and was able to resolve this issue by pressing Alt+Enter which put Steam back into windowed mode and made it behave as it did before this issue occured, basically back to behaving as expected, so long as I don't want to watch any trailers/videos in full screen I suppose.

[RendCycle]

The Steam client window resize issue happened to me in the past. I think I was able to resolve it by making sure "Change Desktop Resolution to Match Streaming Client" under Settings -> Remote Play is unchecked. Then I drag the lower-right corner of the Steam app window (with the inverted triangles icon) to resize it to a much smaller size.

The actual problem that I cannot seem to find a fix though for a long while now is the Screen Flickering when I try to watch selected video trailers in the Steam store app while the "Enable GPU accelerated Rendering in Web Views" is turned on. When turned off, it fixes the flickering but my animated Steam Background Profile becomes very choppy/slow instead. I noticed the screen flickering DOES NOT happen to some trailer videos in the store. Like for the "Elden Ring" title, my screen does not flicker even if I play it's video trailers. But watching most videos in the Steam store app, causes my whole Monitor Screen to flicker. It's really strange and I am beginning to suspect maybe it's the Video Codec used. I have also just reset my Windows 11 OS about 2 weeks ago so it should still be nearly fresh. I have done almost all test and have factory reset my Steam Link hardware device several times already. But this issue persists on the Standard and current Beta release of the Steam app for Windows. I am using firmware version 555.99 for my Nvidia RTX GPU driver.

Please note I am streaming my Desktop Windows PC through a Steam Link hardware device and all of these issues DOES NOT happen when I am directly using the Steam app on my Desktop PC. The problem only happens when I am streaming to a Steam Link hardware device connected through wired Gigabit Ethernet.

[DanMan]

I'm having the issue that with "hw-accel in web views" enabled, the videos on store pages become slow and choppy, like way below 30fps. That's on Fedora 40 with NV driver 560.35.03 and Steam Beta 1728690629 installed via RPMFusion and running in desktop mode. Actually, basically all animations, like banners scaling up on hover, aren't smooth.

But here's the kicker: as long as I interact with the "STORE LIBRARY COMMUNITY …" navigation via mouse (moving it across the navigation), the videos play smoothly. As soon as I stop that, video becomes choppy again. Now riddle me this!

But without hw-accel, Big Picture becomes slow instead…

P.S.: The beta currently isn't stable for me at all btw. After a while, it freezes my whole Gnome session and Gnome forces me to log off. Error: "steamwebhelper killed by SIGTRAP"