I just found that when I loaded steam I was met with a black screen.
I did some searching and found this link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/oz822f/steam_doesnt_load_ui/
This lead me to downgrade freetype2 from the arch archive using the following command:
sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/freetype2/freetype2-2.10.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
I’ve now added freetype2 to my ignored packages in pacman.conf until I read about a fix.
Thank you very much for sharing that!
I had this problem too.
In the reddit sub you have linked it is described for a solution to enlist into the steam-beta after downgrading the package. Then you have to wait until the steam-patch is done and upgrade the freetype2-package back again afterwards.
I have tried it this way and steam-runtime (beta) works normally for now. I will try to retreat from beta again as soon as valve update the steam-client next time. Maybe then the beta-version won’t be necessary anymore.
Just switching to beta under menu: steam/settings worked for me.
It is also mentioned here with fix…