[BUG] empty windows, empty setting window, "some Add-ons blocked" - for no apparent reason

[AndKe]

Describe the bug SteamVR complains about some add-ons blocked, unable to see which/why, because the spawned windows are empty.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. StartSteamVR

2. This appears:

3. move the top-left windows: then it looks like this:

Expected behavior I expected to see windows with some contents, being able to see what add-on fail, and why.

System Information (please complete the following information):

• Distribution: Ubuntu
• SteamVR version: 2.5.2
• Steam client version: Steam Version: 1709846872
• Opted into Steam client beta?: no
• Graphics driver version: 535.171.04
• Gist for SteamVR System Information: https://gist.github.com/AndKe/9b1b8777509450b8bf0a6ffe50c42495

Screenshots See above

Additional context

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[bkiefer]

Same problem, also experienced in Ubuntu 24.04 Mate

Computer Information: Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Model: B450M MORTAR MAX (MS-7B89) Form Factor: Desktop No Touch Input Detected Processor Information: CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor CPU Family: 0x17 CPU Model: 0x71 CPU Stepping: 0x0 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 4208 MHz 12 logical processors 6 physical processors Hyper-threading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported AES: Supported AVX: Supported AVX2: Supported AVX512F: Unsupported AVX512PF: Unsupported AVX512ER: Unsupported AVX512CD: Unsupported AVX512VNNI: Unsupported SHA: Supported CMPXCHG16B: Supported LAHF/SAHF: Supported PrefetchW: Unsupported BMI1: Supported BMI2: Supported F16C: Supported FMA: Supported Operating System Version: Ubuntu 24.10 (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 6.11.0-13-generic X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 12101013 X Window Manager: Metacity (Marco) Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20241024.105847 Client Information: Version: 1733265492 Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Disabled Browser Canvas: Unavailable Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Disabled Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled Browser Compositing: Disabled Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled Browser OpenGL: Disabled Browser Rasterization: Disabled Browser Raw Draw: Disabled Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled Browser Video Decode: Disabled Browser Video Encode: Disabled Browser Vulkan: Disabled Browser WebGL: Unavailable Browser WebGL2: Unavailable Browser WebGPU: Disabled Browser WebNN: Disabled Video Card: Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 560.35.05 Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz VendorID: 0x10de DeviceID: 0x1e84 Revision Not Detected Number of Monitors: 1 Number of Logical Video Cards: 1 Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Primary Display Size: 20.87" x 11.81" (23.98" diag), 53.0cm x 30.0cm (60.9cm diag) Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x Primary VRAM: 8192 MB Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x Sound card: Audio device: Nvidia GPU 92 HDMI/DP Memory: RAM: 15937 Mb VR Hardware: Headset: Oculus Miramar (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Left Controller) (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Right Controller) (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Left Controller) (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Right Controller) (alvr_server) Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Total Hard Disk Space Available: 390019 MB Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 70632 MB Storage: Number of SSDs: 4 SSD sizes: 4000G,2000G,500G,0B Number of HDDs: 0 Number of removable drives: 0

[AndKe]

I can also mention that the "some plugins disabled" was gamepad support - that can be disabled anyway as there is no use for it with ALVR/quest