I’m having a terrible time with an error that’s just popped up in the last week or so. Essentially, my keyboard stops working when gaming in Steam, but the error is confined to Steam as the keyboard works at the same time in other applications. My main system is XFCE.
The keyboard starts off working in Steam, but if I minimise Steam and then go back to it. nothing happens when I try to type. I can fix this by resetting the key bindings in my game (Football Manager 2021), but as soon as I minimise and go back to it again, it won’t work. I can reproduce this error consistently.
I have tried reinstalling Steam and the game, and I’ve tried running the game in two brand new installs of Endeavour, one with XFCE and one with KDE. It’s not the keyboard, as I can repeat the problem on a different keyboard.
Is it possible this is an Arch problem? This problem did not occur a week or two again, it’s a new thing. Also, the error does not occur in Windows (ugh!)
So unlike the person in the thread you linked, I don’t think I had any NoExtract rules set up in pacman.conf. Still, I just re-wrote that line in pacman.conf, saved it, then used sudo pacman -Qqn | pacman -S - as per the linked thread, and it fixed the problem.
I want to repeat that I was able to recreate this problem in brand new installs of Endeavour both with XFCE and KDE, so it’s something that may need to be tackled in a future release.