steam windows not working and tray icon broken?

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:15 pm

When I launch Steam through wine the main window loads fine and I can click to
the games tab and see my games, but if I try to navigate to other windows
within steam (settings, etc.) the space that window takes up flashes briefly
then disappears. My task bar says the window is there, but I can't see it or
do anything with it.

Also, if I close the main Steam window and then try to re-open it from the
icon that stays in the far right of the task bar, nothing happens. The icon
flickers a bit but does not respond to clicks, right or left mouse button. The
only way I can get the main Steam window back is to use my system monitor and
kill Steam then restart it. I do not know if these problems are related to
each other.

I didn't get any errors on install of Steam or when it crashes. I have tried
the 'repair' option in the wine uninstall tool. All the Steam windows worked
fine for me a few weeks ago (during the Star Trek Online and Global Agenda
betas and release). I haven't been able to find this problem in google searches
or the wineapp page for Steam, any ideas?

Wine 1.1.38 (newest my distro has)
Nvidia 6150 SE (190.53 driver)
Fedora 12KDE (32 bit)

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:13 am

tparker wrote:When I launch Steam through wine the main window loads fine and I can click to the games tab and see my games, but if I try to navigate to other windows within steam (settings, etc.) the space that window takes up flashes briefly then disappears. My task bar says the window is there, but I can't see it or do anything with it.

Are you using original interface not beta? Make sure wine_gecko is properly installed ('wine iexplore http://www.winehq.org/' should open Wine's home page).

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:51 am

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 1:13:30 am vitamin wrote:

Are you using original interface not beta? Make sure wine_gecko is properly
installed ('wine iexplore http://www.winehq.org/' should open Wine's home
page).

I believe it is the original interface. I installed it following the page for
steam at the appdb and comments that mention how to not get the beta.

Yes, that command opens the Wine page just fine. Bummer, would have been nice
if it were something that simple.