Steam Does Not Like Wayland

I recently did a clean install of Leap 15 with Gnome as the desktop. When I installed Steam from the repository, I could get the Steam client to run and update but all games crashed on opening. I tried most of the fixes called out in the openSuse wiki for Steam (https://en.opensuse.org/Steam) that have worked on previous openSuse versions but not this time. Running Steam from a terminal didn’t really show any glaring errors about the games either. There were just a few lines showing the game process selected and then “removed” which is just about what it would normally show except for start and “removed” happening so close together.

Digging through Google began showing a bunch of threads complaining about the use of Wayland as the display server protocol. Possibly because Steam uses an old version of Ubuntu, it wants X and the games choke on Wayland. An openSuse thread about a different graphic problem suggested disabling Wayland by editing the **/etc/gdm/custom.conf **file and un-comment the line reading “WaylandEnable=false” (thank you, OrsoBruno).

After a restart, games began running normally in Steam again. I haven’t found any programs broken by this yet. If anyone else has more experience with this, I’d love to hear it.

I don’t use steam, so I have no experience with this.

It should be possible to select Xorg instead of Wayland, on the login screen. You are probably using GDM for logins. There’s a gear-wheel icon you can click to select the desktop, and Gnome-Xorg should be one of the choices.

Once you choose this, GDM should remember your choice for future logins.

Xorg will be around for a while yet. And presumably steam will eventually support Wayland.

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