Steam shows as SDL Application

[alosarjos]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1722380543
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: YEs
• Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
• GPU: AMD

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I think that with today's beta update (But not sure at all) the client window is showing up as SDL Application instead of just Steam

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Run regular Steam (steam-runtime on Arch) on a Gnome Wayland session

[Billli11]

The x11 window class is changed with today update. From "steam" to "SDL Application"

  "window_properties": {
    "class": "SDL Application",
    "instance": "steamwebhelper",
    "title": "Steam",
    "transient_for": null,
    "window_type": "normal"
  }

[alosarjos]

Assing the StartupWMClass=SDL Application to the .desktop file is a workaround for now, but would like to know if this is a bug or something expected

[echaskaris]

July 30th steam beta did this

[rmbleeker]

The problem is not exclusive to Arch since I have it on Pop!_OS as well, which is a derivative of Ubuntu and falls within the Debian family of Linux distributions.

[ShlomoSerber]

This also happens to me on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

[ColbyB722]

Also on Fedora 40

[theme118]

It happens on EndeavourOS too.

@alosarjos It works with your workaround :clap:

[70705]

Also on NixOS

[PyreWilderness]

Just want to note I am also seeing this on Tumbleweed Linux with Gnome Wayland after the July 30th beta update.

[NLBen]

Also present on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Also seems to make the client way more unstable for some reason, seeing a lot more hang-ups

[williamjcm]

Judging by what I can see, I think the change is also the reason why Steam now shows up separately from my pinned taskbar icon on KDE:

Using Xorg, but I presume it'd do the same on Wayland.

[echaskaris]

Fixed with Aug 13 update

[williamjcm]

Can confirm it's fixed here too. The patch notes didn't mention it, though.

[NLBen]

Same here, restarting Steam and letting it apply the patch fixed the issue.

Seems also more stable currently for now compared to when the SDL version showed up. Any out-of-focus hang-ups which increased with SDL for now don't seem to occur (anymore?), but that bit would require some further testing if that was SDL-related or something deeper within the client.

[alosarjos]

Fixed