Steam Window disappears after closing game

[coreybruce]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1731433018
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro Gnome
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
• Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
  steam-logs.tar.gz
• GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD RX 6700 XT

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Play a game
2. Quit game
3. Steam will disappear and I have to close steam just to see the Window again but the tray icon will be there but the only thing that works on the tray is exit steam

[dom1torii]

Same on my side, but i dont even need to close the game, it just randomly disappears when the game is open.
When trying to open something from tray, e.g. store, it opens store page in steam overlay in game.

[underspiffy]

This has been happening to me as well. its very frustrating! Its happened with both beta and stable
Distro: EndeavourOS

[Perfectio07]

This also happens to me. Sometimes it closes while in-game, sometimes it closes when I close a game.

Worth noting as well, there are a few times it does not close but starts the "shutting down steam" popup and just hangs there with the only option being force close steam. Running Arch/Hyprland

[sim590]

I have this also. It has started recently. Steam seems to also try to uninstall stuff. A window pops and asks if I am sure that I want to uninstall something but I didn't ask to uninstall anything.

[coreybruce]

I have this also. It has started recently. Steam seems to also try to uninstall stuff. A window pops and asks if I am sure that I want to uninstall something but I didn't ask to uninstall anything.

I noticed that also, it kept coming up with a window to uninstall content

[Bodyash]

similar to my issue, can confirm that steam UI can crash sometimes when closing game, but for me it also happening during playing the game + other bugs:
#11449

[Skiftstar]

Same issue, I had noticed it back when the game recording beta was a thing, back then it was not an issue on stable
Currently an issue on stable again with game recording on, maybe it's an issue with that?

[dom1torii]

Same issue, I had noticed it back when the game recording beta was a thing, back then it was not an issue on stable Currently an issue on stable again with game recording on, maybe it's an issue with that?

I don't have game recording enabled and i still have the bug

[coreybruce]

Idk if anyone has tried or had the same experience but I think the issue may be fixed or doesn't happen on the beta client. Can anyone test to verify?

[Perfectio07]

Idk if anyone has tried or had the same experience but I think the issue may be fixed or doesn't happen on the beta client. Can anyone test to verify?

When I made my comment 5 days ago I was using the beta client and it was still happening. Unless something changed in the last 5 days... I will retest and see if it happens again

[coreybruce]

Idk if anyone has tried or had the same experience but I think the issue may be fixed or doesn't happen on the beta client. Can anyone test to verify?

When I made my comment 5 days ago I was using the beta client and it was still happening. Unless something changed in the last 5 days... I will retest and see if it happens again

Ahh ok I see, I have been having been constantly dealing with this issue even when I launch a gaming making Steam almost unusable, unstable and unreliable but after switching to the beta I haven't been able to recreate the issue so far at least.

Hopefully they have fixed the issue and this does fix the issue for others.. I don't understand how a bug like this could have entered stable without testing as it's been a frustrating experience with the other issue I have reported about big picture mode performance.

[sim590]

I did try Beta and I think it is indeed fixed in Beta. Thanks.

[Perfectio07]

I did try Beta and I think it is indeed fixed in Beta. Thanks.

It just happened to me a few hours ago and I am using Beta, so it doesnt seem like it is fully fixed yet