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[Steam] Why is SteamLink launching everytime I launch Steam?

Open beefchimi opened this issue 7 months ago • 1 comments

This has been happening for about a month. Everytime I open Steam, instead of the Taskbar > Steam icon indicating that it is running, I instead get a SteamLink app launched and showing in my Taskbar.

steamlink

beefchimi avatar Nov 13 '23 00:11 beefchimi

Check for the content:

grep launchers ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

duhow avatar Jan 02 '24 13:01 duhow

@duhow I finally got a chance to run the command you suggested. The return is:

launchers=applications:systemsettings.desktop,applications:org.kde.discover.desktop,preferred://filemanager,applications:org.kde.konsole.desktop,applications:org.mozilla.firefox.desktop,applications:steam.desktop,applications:org.gnome.Prompt.desktop

FYI this is still happening in both X11 and Wayland, on the latest version of Bazzite (I just updated earlier today)

beefchimi avatar Jan 19 '24 18:01 beefchimi

Anyone have any suggestions for this issue?

beefchimi avatar Feb 02 '24 14:02 beefchimi

I think this is finally solved. Within ~/.local/share/applications was a bazzite-arch-com.valvesoftware.SteamLink.desktop file. I deleted that file, and now Steam appears correctly launched in the TaskBar!

beefchimi avatar Feb 02 '24 22:02 beefchimi